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Forumer
What it does: A private, serverless discussion forum for Logos Basecamp
Stage: Prototype
Licence: MIT and Apache-2.0, at the user's option
Verified on 4 November 2026 against README and v0.2.5.

Forumer is a forum app for Basecamp by bristinWild. Posts travel peer to peer over Logos Messaging (the README calls it Logos Delivery), and pictures in posts are stored in Logos Storage.

What it does

  • People post topics and replies with no central server. Accounts, the post log and unsent posts stay on the user's own device.
  • An account is a secret key on the device, protected by a password and backed up as a 24-word recovery phrase. No email or phone number is asked for.
  • Each post can go out under a persona, under an alias or fully anonymously. Personas can be kept, rotated by hand or rotated on every post.
  • Topics are tagged with up to three domains, and users follow the domains they care about. Replies nest two levels deep.
  • Private forums are joined by invite link. Their posts are encrypted on the network with a key that only the link carries.
  • Up to four pictures can go with a post. They are stripped of metadata, encrypted and stored in Logos Storage.
  • Unsent posts wait in an outbox and are retried. A newcomer gets past posts from the network's store nodes and from other peers.
  • Proof of work and hourly limits per persona and per account keep the network from being flooded.

Stage: Prototype. The README says "Status: working and in active development." It also marks v0.2.5 as a release candidate and says "This is an independent community project. It has not been built for, on behalf of, or as part of the work of Logos or the Institute of Free Technology".

Use it

  1. In Basecamp, open Settings, then Package Repositories, and add https://raw.githubusercontent.com/bristinWild/forumer-catalog/main/logos-repo.json.
  2. Open Package Manager, then Social, then Forumer, and press Install. Open Forumer from the sidebar.
  3. Create an account with a name and password, and write down the 24-word recovery phrase.
  • The README says the catalogue serves v0.2.3. For v0.2.5 it points to the platform packages on the releases page and to a compatible patched Basecamp host.
  • Packages are built for macOS (Apple Silicon) and Linux (x86_64). Windows has passed cross-compilation but not a native Basecamp test.
  • If the download fails, the README suggests leaving the optional modules unticked, or installing the packages from file with lgpm. The packages are not signed yet, so lgpm needs the allow-unsigned option.
  • The README says image display needs a Basecamp image-provider change that is not yet in an official Basecamp release.

Build it

  • It needs Nix with flakes, on macOS (Apple Silicon) or Linux (x86_64 or arm64).
  • nix build -L builds the module and nix run starts Forumer in a standalone Basecamp window.
  • nix build .#lgx-portable makes a package for the Basecamp package manager.
  • ./scripts/test-core.sh runs the unit tests, and ./scripts/two-instances.sh starts two separate copies for an end-to-end test.

Releases

Latest tag: v0.2.5, 18 October 2026. The version in metadata.json is 0.2.5.

See also

Sources

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