*freepost* is a web-based discussion board developed by
link:The_Peers_Community[The Peers Community], where users can submit links
and text posts that other users can vote and discuss. An instance of freepost
is hosted on link:TuxFamily[TuxFamily] and accessible via
`https://freepost.peers.community`.

It is one of the early projects developed by the community^<<1>>^.

= Development

The software was initially developed with the Symfony PHP framework^<<2>><<3>>^,
but it was later rewritten in plain PHP^<<4>><<5>>^. In 2018 it was rewritten
again from scratch using the link:Bottle_(web_framework)[Bottle] web framework,
thus changing the code base from PHP to Python^[red yellow-background]_Add
references_^.

= References

[[[1]]] https://web.archive.org/web/20150310050551/http://peers.community:80/ +
[[[2]]] https://notabug.org/zPlus/freepost/commit/5b034991ac1190f7149e3efa68d740220b0b8090 +
[[[3]]] https://web.archive.org/web/20150129023118/https://symfony.com/projects +
[[[4]]] https://freepost.peers.community/post/gcghb5oqf0 +
[[[5]]] https://notabug.org/zPlus/freepost/commit/b6a047b015c0b17a8fe83a62996b09dca9eca7d6

= External Links

- Official repository: https://notabug.org/zplus/freepost
- Official website: https://freepost.peers.community
