Chieftain is a new generation imageboard (anonymous forum). It is the fastest chan. It has plenty of modern features and modular design. Chieftain is built with HTML5, Python programming language, Django web framework, Tornado scalable non-blocking web server with use of jQuery javascript library and Memcached caching system.

• Lightweight architecture
• Realtime publish and subscribe system (post autoload)
• REST API with XML, YAML and JSON serializers
• Advanced post validation tools including tripcodes
• Markdown support with code highlighting
• Post search
• AJAX
• Answer maps & previews
• RSS
• Bookmarks
• Customizable styles
• Advanced moderation and administration tools
• Internationalization
• Mobile and smartphone versions
• Wakaba database converter

• You'll need Python 2.7 to run chieftain.
• Redis or Memcached
• GeoIP C API: http://geolite.maxmind.com/download/geoip/api/c/GeoIP-1.4.8.tar.gz.
• (optional) GeoIP datasets
• All python dependencies are listed in the file pip-req.txt and can be installed with command pip install -r pip-req.txt.

• Run python manage.py syncdb to fill database with base data.
• Run python manage.py runserver and python pubsub.py. It would start django & tornado webservers.
• You're done!

• Website
• Github

The MIT License.

Copyright (c) Paul Miller (http://paulmillr.com)

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