SpaceForum is a responsive, server-rendered community forum for long-form discussions, practical answers, and thoughtful moderation. It combines a fast Blazor interface with PostgreSQL, SQL-first persistence, S3-compatible media storage, and a complete Docker development environment.
- SEO-friendly server rendering, lower-case routes, topic slugs, post permalinks, and 50-post pagination.
- Categories, nested sections, tags, sortable topic feeds, PostgreSQL full-text search, and instant search suggestions.
- Markdown topics and replies with previews, drafts, code blocks, reply references, local-time rendering, and a stable post navigator.
- Topic voting, post reactions, bookmarks, following and ignoring, notifications, live activity checks, and private messages.
- Image uploads up to 10 MB and MP4/WebM uploads up to 15 MB through private S3-compatible storage with server-side content validation.
- Registration, email confirmation, password recovery, profile editing, passkeys, authenticator-based 2FA, recovery codes, and English/Russian localization.
- Member, moderator, and administrator roles with permission management, reports, post visibility controls, topic closing, content deletion, user suspension, and an audit log.
- Development seed data with programming and PC-gaming categories, realistic discussions, and a 500-reply pagination scenario.
- .NET 10 and Blazor Web App with interactive server rendering
- PostgreSQL 18.4 with parameterized Npgsql SQL; EF Core is limited to ASP.NET Core Identity
- Tailwind CSS 4, Nunito Variable, and a responsive token-based design system
- S3-compatible object storage, Mailpit development email, and Docker Compose
- Markdig, xUnit v3, and centralized NuGet package management
The solution is defined in SpaceForum.slnx. Source is split into Domain, Application, Infrastructure, and Web projects, with dependency rules verified by architecture tests.
Docker Desktop or another Docker Compose-compatible runtime is the only prerequisite.
docker compose up --buildOpen the forum at http://localhost:8080. Development email is available at http://localhost:8025, and the object-storage console at http://localhost:9001.
The first startup builds the application, waits for PostgreSQL, applies the single checksum-verified SQL migration, creates the media bucket, and loads the development seed. Later starts reuse the named volumes.
Development-only accounts:
| Role | Login | Password |
|---|---|---|
| Administrator | admin |
SpaceForum!2020 |
| Member | member |
ByteRanger!2020 |
Stop the stack while preserving data:
docker compose downRemove the local development data as well:
docker compose down --volumesnpm install
npm run assets:build
dotnet restore SpaceForum.slnx
dotnet build SpaceForum.slnx --no-restore
dotnet test SpaceForum.slnx --no-buildThe readable CSS and JavaScript sources live under src/SpaceForum.Web/Styles and src/SpaceForum.Web/Scripts; production assets are minified during the frontend build. Planned follow-up work is listed in docs/PLANNED.md.