sites/randogoth.com/pelicanconf.py

AUTHOR = 'randogoth'
SITENAME = 'RANDOGOTH'
SITEURL = ''
PATH = 'content'
TIMEZONE = 'Asia/Jerusalem'
DEFAULT_LANG = 'en'

# An ANSI bulletin board. The TuiCSS theme that came over from TRL was a DOS
# *application*: grey chrome, dialogs, a menu bar. A board is a different thing,
# and the one actually wanted here. mc-pelican stays in the tree as the fallback.
THEME = 'bbs'
PLUGIN_PATHS = ['plugins', '../plugins']
PLUGINS = ['crtimages', 'smolnet', 'lostimages']

# Hosts that no longer exist, so their hotlinked images can never resolve.
# Checked against Wayback: of twelve such images only one was ever captured,
# and it now lives in content/library/. See lostimages.py.
LOSTIMAGES_DEAD_HOSTS = [
    'visualberlin.org', 'mutanten.org', 'web.mac.com',
    'kino.web.de', 'lh4.google.it', 'l.yimg.com',
]


# The sections are message areas, numbered so they can be dialled by key the way
# a board's main menu works. No descriptions: the names are the whole listing,
# as they were on a real board, and working out what an area holds is the point.
BBS_AREAS = {
    'RANDOM': 1, 'PLACE': 2, 'MINIMAL': 3,
    'MACHINES': 4, 'GONZO': 5, 'ENDTIMES': 6,
}

# The capsule mirrors the board: same areas, same order, same words. Gemini
# clients number link lines themselves, so an area is still dialled by number
# over there without the plugin writing a single bracket.
SMOLNET_SECTION_DIR = 'area'
SMOLNET_SECTION_ORDER = BBS_AREAS
SMOLNET_LABELS = {
    'sections': 'Message areas', 'latest': 'Latest messages',
    'archive': 'All messages', 'back': 'Main menu', 'pages': 'System',
    'comments': 'Replies',
}
# The address is rot13 in the HTML because of web crawlers. That defence needs
# JavaScript, which Gemini does not have, and the renderer drops raw HTML, so
# without this the one thing the Connect page exists to carry would vanish.
SMOLNET_ROT13_ATTR = 'data-r'

# The capsule's half of the replies box, off until kapara is deployed. Setting
# it puts a Replies link under every article in the capsule, so it must not be
# switched on before something answers Gemini on the other end.
#
# When it lands: kapara gateways this same remark42 instance, and remark42 keys
# a thread by the article's canonical web URL, which bbs.js builds as origin +
# pathname. So kapara has to run with `-page-url 'https://randogoth.com/%s.html'`
# and `-site randogoth`, or the capsule opens a second, empty thread under every
# article instead of joining the one that is there. Port 1966, not the default:
# stunnel owns 1965 in front of itsybitsy, and kapara has to terminate its own
# TLS because Gemini client certificates are its identity mechanism.
#
# SMOLNET_COMMENTS = 'gemini://comments.randogoth.com:1966/c/{slug}'

# Articles live flat in content/; assets are carved out of that.
ARTICLE_PATHS = ['']
ARTICLE_EXCLUDES = ['pages', 'library', 'images', 'files']
PAGE_PATHS = ['pages']
STATIC_PATHS = ['library', 'images', 'files']

# Flat slugs, for the reason TRL learned the hard way: sections get reworked and
# every reassignment moves a URL. The section lives in the listing, not the path.
ARTICLE_URL = '{slug}.html'
ARTICLE_SAVE_AS = '{slug}.html'
PAGE_URL = '{slug}.html'
PAGE_SAVE_AS = '{slug}.html'
CATEGORY_URL = 'section/{slug}.html'
CATEGORY_SAVE_AS = 'section/{slug}.html'
CATEGORIES_SAVE_AS = 'sections.html'
TAG_URL = 'tag/{slug}.html'
TAG_SAVE_AS = 'tag/{slug}.html'
TAGS_SAVE_AS = 'tags.html'
ARCHIVES_SAVE_AS = 'archives.html'
AUTHOR_SAVE_AS = ''
AUTHORS_SAVE_AS = ''

# Unlike the other two sites, this one is a blog, so it is paginated and it has
# feeds. People should be able to subscribe to a devlog without visiting it.
DEFAULT_PAGINATION = 15
FEED_ALL_ATOM = 'feeds/all.atom.xml'
FEED_ALL_RSS = 'feeds/all.rss.xml'
CATEGORY_FEED_ATOM = 'feeds/{slug}.atom.xml'
CATEGORY_FEED_RSS = 'feeds/{slug}.rss.xml'
TRANSLATION_FEED_ATOM = None
AUTHOR_FEED_ATOM = None
AUTHOR_FEED_RSS = None

# The eight sections are the navigation, the way a file manager shows directories.
DISPLAY_CATEGORIES_ON_MENU = True
DISPLAY_PAGES_ON_MENU = False
MENUITEMS = [
    ('ARCHIVES', '/archives.html'),
    ('TAGS', '/tags.html'),
]

# No nl2br. The recovered bodies are hard wrapped at roughly 70 characters, so it
# turns every source line into a forced break and the prose stops reflowing.
MARKDOWN = {
    'extension_configs': {
        'markdown.extensions.tables': {},
        'markdown.extensions.footnotes': {},
        'markdown.extensions.codehilite': {'css_class': 'highlight'},
        'markdown.extensions.extra': {},
    },
    'output_format': 'html5',
}

DELETE_OUTPUT_DIRECTORY = True
CACHE_CONTENT = False

# The comment server. One instance serves three sites, keyed on COMMENTS_SITE,
# so this is the id rather than the hostname. Unset it and the replies section
# disappears from every article, which is the off switch.
COMMENTS_HOST = 'https://comments.randogoth.com'
COMMENTS_SITE = 'randogoth'