Big 3.0 Update Info: Much things will change, some useful features will be added and it will be available very soon!

About Upcoming v3.0:

Completely re-written and re-designed Backend
.env Environment Variable File with generator written in bash for Backend Settings
Using JSON Body to send and receive data (instead of HTTP Headers) to fix other problems with encoding/decoding when sending messages/displaying current messages
Sender Blocking based on sender's IP address blacklisting in one of the database tables (IP Addresses of Users around the internet are public after all, so sender's anonymity/privacy has not been lost!)
Authorization System that consists of Register + Login + Change Password + Logout features working with JSON Web Tokens (JWT) that are stored in cookies with HttpOnly=True, Secure=True and SameSite=Strict parameters for enhanced protection against XSS and other attacks
Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Protection by Flask-WTF
Separate Rate-limiting for Authorization System, User Frontend Endpoints, Admin Frontend Enpoints, User RESTful API Endpoints and Admin RESTful API Endpoints to enhance rate-limiting options customization
SQLAlchemy instead of pure SQL Queries
User/Admin Frontend API
RESTful User/Admin API with option to restrict CORS Access-Control-Allow-Origin header in .env file
Feature to completely disable/enable turning on application RESTful User/Admin API by changing Global API setting in application global settings
User Frontend and Admin Frontend are in one package now (because of CSRF Protection issues when User Frontend was on second domain and when Admin Frontend was on some other domain)
Update Checker
'Approve Questions First' Mode
Added feature to hide/show all questions or hide/show single question
Telegram Notifications
Integrated Backend Tools for recovering/changing administrator password, deleting administrator account or restoring factory default settings
Re-designed User Interface with Material UI library

and many more...

Ask @lvkaszus! - Python + React

Anonymous questions and answers pretty much like NGL App or Tellonym, with Backend written in Python, very simple user interface, support for i18n and also BBCode!

⚠️ WARNING! - You must have domain name and SSL/TLS certificate to use this application without any modifications to the source code! This is needed for your security. ⚠️

Why this was created?

I pretty much like the conception of NGL App or Tellonym, but I didn't like overall application operation. So, I created my own alternative to them with some added features and no analytics inside source code.

Features

You can change nickname viewed on Frontend and Backend from "@lvkaszus" to for example "@MyNickname"
Separated Backend, Frontend and Admin Panel
i18n support for internationalization
BBCode support for bold, italic and underlined text but also with YouTube video embed support and Map Location embed by OpenStreetMap (currently by dangerouslySetInnerHTML and sanitization in backend, but this will change in next release)
Rate-limiting by Flask-Limiter and Redis
Database powered by MariaDB
Admin Panel with options like deleting all questions, replying to questions and also deleting single questions
Very basic authentication system by using API Auth Key specified by you during installation of Backend of this App and Cookies with expiration time of 30 minutes by default

Installation

If you want to deploy this project on your own server, you have two options:

Installing with Docker
Installing without Docker

Click here to go to Wiki Page for Installation With Docker

Click here to go to Wiki Page for Installation Without Docker

Common problems

If you experience any problems after installation, feel free to visit this Wiki page here!

Wiki

There is Wiki Page available for this project! You can read full documentation of this project here.

Do you want to contribute?

If you want to add new feature to this project or improve something, you can contribute without any problems!

Credits

This project uses Python libraries like Flask, Flask-Limiter, Flask-CORS, mysql-connector-python, bleach and others.
This project uses React library. (https://github.com/facebook/react)
This project uses Vite library. (https://github.com/vitejs/vite)
This project uses Axios library. (https://github.com/axios/axios)
This project uses i18n for React library. (https://github.com/i18next/react-i18next)
This project uses Font Awesome for React library. (https://github.com/FortAwesome/react-fontawesome)
This project uses Fira Code font. (https://github.com/tonsky/FiraCode)

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