make a javascript free kiwifarms

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Doesn't XenForo already work without JS?
The only major missing functionality is the reaction bar, not sure why they didn't implement it with the css hover thing.
 
A frontend is necessarily dynamic and requires JavaScript. What you are describing requires a separate backend be written and hosted either locally or remotely. That backend would hit the Xenforo WebAPI and load a static page for the user whenever they wanted to view a thread or navigate.
PHPBB works fine without Javascript.
About half of chan software works fine without JavaScript.
Same with Wiki software.

They use page reloads instead of dynamic elements.

Doesn't XenForo already work without JS?
The only major missing functionality is the reaction bar, not sure why they didn't implement it with the css hover thing.
Last time I tried it, it was nearly unusable. KF was one of the first sites on Tor that I enabled JS on. That was back in 2016.
 
What's the point of a separate frontend when you can use current FE with no JS?

(Posting in this thread with JS disabled.)
 
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