Create a Web-hosted forum community with user accounts, categories, and moderation tools

General Process (How it works)

1. {"steps":[{"step":"Define scope and requirements","details":"List features: user accounts, categories, moderation, roles."},{"step":"Choose hosting approach","details":"Select a platform-agnostic hosting method with a CMS or lightweight framework."},{"step":"Design data model","details":"Define entities: users, roles, categories, threads, posts, reports, moderation actions."},{"step":"Set up authentication and roles","details":"Implement registration, login, password reset, sessions, and role-based permissions."},{"step":"Create categories and threads","details":"Build a taxonomy and thread structure to organize discussions."},{"step":"Develop moderation tooling","details":"Provide reporting, flagging, review queues, and action logging."},{"step":"Moderation UI/UX","details":"Create dashboards, filters, and bulk action capabilities for moderators."},{"step":"Security and privacy","details":"Ensure HTTPS, input validation, rate limiting, backups, and privacy controls."},{"step":"Testing and QA","details":"Test permissions, flows, edge cases, and performance."},{"step":"Launch and iterate","details":"Soft launch with a subset of users, collect feedback, adjust policies."}]}