FluxBB [1], the PHP based forum that powers the Archlinux wiki works fine without JS, and IMHO looks fine too.

If you are looking for something minimal with threading support, fossil scm [2] includes a forum. You can checkout the forum for fossil itself which is powered by fossil.

[1] https://fluxbb.org

[2] https://fossil-scm.org/

[3] https://fossil-scm.org/forum/forummain

Arch forum, you mean? The archwiki runs the standard mediawiki.

Yes, sorry. I meant the arch forum only.

I recently wrote one: https://github.com/epilys/sic

Python, AGPL and without JS? Excellent!

Thanks for sharing, I missed your earlier "show hn": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28086637

As someone not too familiar with Django, this looks like a nice codebase :)

But am I right that there are no tests?

Thank you! Indeed there are no tests. I'm not familiar with testing in Django or web apps in general but I want to add some once I figure out what and how I should be testing.

Well, in my limited experience, the best way to do testing is to start with tests first (TDD/BDD) - and the second best, when you've started, and have no tests - is to start from a bug: someone reports a real bug, in your real system - and you try and write a test that's failing in such a way, that when you alter the system to fix the bug, the test will pass.

Typically the first test will be quite painful - you might have to install a testing dependency, possibly re-work some code to allow for testing etc. But then, the next test should be a little easier. And after a few bugs and tests, you might find that for your next feature, you can somewhat easily start with a failing test.

/unsolicted_advice

I am loving this, thanks for sharing. My only request would be for a publicly hosted image so I can easily selfhost for my own little campfire community.

Hmm I might add one thanks for the suggestion. I don't use containers for this since it's just python WSGI on apache2 (no database image required since it's sqlite3)

phpBB gets pretty close to this; although it does use JS for a few niceties, it’s not just usable but almost identical when JS is disabled (IIRC).

This one doesn't use JS at all: http://pfpmd7dd5ijt4add2sfi4djsaij4u3ebvnwvyvuj6aeipe2f5llpt...