🚀 New λPrize: LP-0026, Forum App ($5,500)

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Hello all, I’m excited to announce that a new Lambda Prize was launched, and people have already started to submit their work!
Builder or forum user, get involved! This one is weighted towards meaningful use, so what people can achieve uniquely on your forum is important.

The Problem :thinking:

Social media tracks you. Your words, your scroll speed, view time. Interacting with a non-mainstream post can be confronting, and thanks to ip tracking, even posting with a random account can grow your digital twin. Considering use of this by the gov with overreach is a frightening thought and in some countries, already a reality…

We can do better! :flexed_biceps:

100% of people reading this are familiar with basic forum functionality (:wink: #selectionBias)

LP-0026 will be rewarded to one stand-out forum. It is about the impact your forum can achieve.

When you design your forum app you should ask, what features will let groups of people thrive and create meaningful impact for their communities? And as always: privacy is important (see spec linked below).

When AI is used effectively, developing an application becomes much faster, and it is the attention to detail and feature choice that become points of differentiation. What features did you choose to add (or leave out)? The reasons behind your choices are what matters.
Then of course it’s about meaningful adoption and use of the application. Who benefits and how? What real world impact can be verified? This is key.

Details :nut_and_bolt:

Total prize: $5,500
Evaluation: Best submission to meet all the criteria wins
Full spec: prizes/LP-0026.md

Want to share your 2c on what a forum could/should have? Let us know on discord.

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Forumer took this design and feature directions as core improvements.

Here’s a small story behind it’s development.

I mainly brainstormed before building this , listed out all the issues we have in our current forum out there, research on how forum over browsers could expose users privacy , considered researching on what a good and useful forum looks like ?? and what people actually need.

After all these steps above we started breaking down the findings into essential features and task and started the developments step by step and test by test.
and we ended up with this beautiful app Forumer with it’s stable version in basecamp.

Honestly , I didn’t went fully with AI and vibecoding the project end to end but what i instead decided was to keep the control to myself of my codebase so that i can take this learn along and be aware what’s actually happening BTS. it was a bit time consuming but i personally think it is worth it , if we consider it as a long term and scalable project.

Anyone can try now by adding this link to their Package Repositories - https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bristinWild/forumer-catalog/main/logos-repo.json

and if anyone wants to know more about Forumer , feel free to refer to the demo - https://youtu.be/Tc-MUpDcn7M

BTW submission PR is open and accessible over - Solution: LP-0026 - Forumer: a private, serverless forum for Logos Basecamp by bristinWild · Pull Request #179 · logos-co/lambda-prize · GitHub

Lastly , Feedbacks are always welcome.

Thank you

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Hi all!

Logos Forum, built for LP-0026, has been running on testnet v0.3 since day one.

Try it: Basecamp → Settings → Package Repositories → add
raw.githubusercontent.com/edenbd1/logos-forum-catalog/main/logos-repo.json
then Package Manager → Social → Logos Forum. Delivery and Storage come from the official catalog.

What it does:

  • no server: posts travel over Logos Delivery, history comes back from store nodes and peers
  • post as your account, as an alias, or anonymously with a fresh key; every post is signed and checked
  • offline? posts wait in an outbox and go out when you reconnect
  • optional history snapshots over Logos Storage, fetched privately over Mix

What it’s used for right now: builders asking for help, testnet LGO for newcomers (post in the faucet topic, get LGO), and testnet reboot notes. An always-on node keeps history available, and it’s also how we caught two delivery_module bugs, now reported upstream (logos-delivery-module #165 and #164).

Demo: https://youtu.be/xNY5EzhCtuI
Submission (code, video, details): Solution: LP-0026 - Logos Forum by edenbd1 · Pull Request #168 · logos-co/lambda-prize · GitHub

Come say hi in the forum, feedback are always welcome

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