This forum was made to help support the Black Lives Matter Movement. Here you will find a forum where anyone and everyone can share their experiences with police brutality. People can also share important resources they believe supporters should see.
For more details on this project refer to: https://devpost.com/software/police-brutality-forum
I made this website with aid from a tutorial by Miguel Grinberg. It is an amazing resource for learning how to use flask! I would highly reccomend it! https://blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/the-flask-mega-tutorial-part-i-hello-world
Steps to test PB-Forum:
- Download the zipfile for this repo from GitHub and unzip it
- Open up a command line (for windows: click windows button and type cmd)
- Navigate to the folder within the unzipped folder (windows example: cd Downloads/PB-Forum-Master/PB-Forum-Master)
- if Windows: set FLASK_APP=microblog.py if MAC: export FLASK_APP=microblog.py
- Enter the following command within your command line: flask run
- Open up a browser and go to http://localhost:5000/
Trouble shooting:
Error: The CSRF tokens do not match. Soulution: Make sure you are not blocking cookies on http://localhost:5000/