question to sitemaster, curious for creating own forum with same framework/system

Pure Node.js, with no framework like Express or Connect, but using 3 NPMs for minor stuff like SQL, image processing, and templates.

About 7,000 lines of js runs both the forum and wiki.  It took 6 weeks of steady work to create.

If I had to do it all over, I would do it in C++14 instead.

@KH, thank you for this forum.  I like the structure, how clean it is without overhead and certain thankful for it being as informative as it is.  :)

The forum seems very clean (bots, trolls, etc.).  How much resiliency is there in the setup vs how much is just manual moderation and good community?

Just to update the answer I put on this thread 10 years ago, since this thread was recently replied to...

The forum no longer uses the old program I wrote on node.js.  It now runs on a program called Super Simple Server.

There's a link at the very bottom of this page.  I wrote this program.  It is Linux or Windows, no-dependency web/dns server with built-in content management, forums, wiki, etc etc.  It is the full stack in one stand-alone executable file.  I tried to keep it as simple as possible.