Here's Fossil 2.15 running on EC2: http://54.79.202.57/register - this link will allow you to create a new account.
Alternatively, the "chat" user (password "chat") can be used if you don't want to make an account. [It used to have the ability to create additional users (with admin privs), with the result that the fossil instance rapidly began spouting SQL errors and I had to reset it, twice. That was fun...]
The instance is completely ephemeral. If this comment is more than a week or so old, expect the above IP to be dead (I'll be cycling the VM).
And yes - note that it's going over HTTP, not HTTPS :P (that would have taken an extra, uhh, while)
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If you're using 'chat': once you've opened the above link, go to "login", login, then locate the new "chat" tab. You can optionally go to Admin > Users and make yourself a new account (the "Add" link is a little hard to see, it's to the far left immediately under the tab bar; also be sure to select "Chatroom" from the far right in the permissions list).
Maybe: Go to the Setup/Access page and select the "Allow users to register themselves" checkbox, and add permission "C" to "Default privileges". Then press Apply. With that setup change, users will have a "Create New Account" button on the login page.
Newly registered users still don't have access to chat. I think if you add the "C" privilege to the generic "reader" user, that will solve the problem.
I don't understand why these tools always have so much styling, when they would look a lot better if they just never did it in the first place.
Drop-shadows, rounded corners, borders, colouring, fades. All extra work, all a pain to look at.
Is like watching Picasso paint a painting on a glass wall, the first half you're "wow this is great", and then you just want to start screaming "STOP! NO! IT WAS BETTER BEFORE!"
> Drop-shadows, rounded corners, borders, colouring, fades. All extra work, all a pain to look at.
i have it on exceedingly good authority (as the one who implemented it) that the look and feel was about 90% personal preference and 10% feedback from other project members during development. The "extra work" you mention is relative - with modern browser dev tools such things can (with a bit of CSS know-how) often be completely styled in a matter of minutes, then copy/pasted over into CSS. The much more time-consuming part was getting the messages to pop up from the bottom, but the difference in readability between that and top-down posts made that effort well worth it.
There's obviously no accounting for taste, but (A) you're the first person i've seen actually complain about the CSS styles and (B) any given fossil site can restyle be restyled to do its admins' personal tastes - they're not stuck with mine.
MORE INFORMATION: since comment threads lock after a period of time, I made a small google doc with further info that I'll be able to update in the future:
Yeah, enabling all the things™ for the chat account produced unsolicitedly predictable results. Users can now create their own accounts, and the 'chat' account I linked can only access the chat page.
This evening was a fun howtobasic in like 15 minutes
Realizes people can change the password woops <insert cartoon punching fight cloud here> argh
OK. Because Fossil is awesome you can disallow people from changing their own passwords, while also making it possible to create further accounts that can change their own passwords. Nice!
[EDIT: A few misconceptions here. No, you can't do the above; if a user couldn't change their password but could create new admin accounts, said new admin account could just change the initial user pw.]
What it looks like: https://imgur.com/a/PaHExsp
Here's Fossil 2.15 running on EC2: http://54.79.202.57/register - this link will allow you to create a new account.
Alternatively, the "chat" user (password "chat") can be used if you don't want to make an account. [It used to have the ability to create additional users (with admin privs), with the result that the fossil instance rapidly began spouting SQL errors and I had to reset it, twice. That was fun...]
The instance is completely ephemeral. If this comment is more than a week or so old, expect the above IP to be dead (I'll be cycling the VM).
And yes - note that it's going over HTTP, not HTTPS :P (that would have taken an extra, uhh, while)
--
If you're using 'chat': once you've opened the above link, go to "login", login, then locate the new "chat" tab. You can optionally go to Admin > Users and make yourself a new account (the "Add" link is a little hard to see, it's to the far left immediately under the tab bar; also be sure to select "Chatroom" from the far right in the permissions list).