Vichan Modernization Project (VMP)
TO DO LIST

1. VFEC (vichan front end controller)
        based on old read.php (which failed)
                - fix what sunk read.php
                        no disk access excluding source code files
                                no on-disk Twig cache
                                no on-disk config files, move them
                                        to db and chang load_config()
                                no more flags.php/flags.ser, figure
                                        out how to do without
                        Goal of VFEC:
                                8chan/infinity should be able
                                to operate outside of NFS (/srv)
                        - move media files to their own directory.
                                should be straightforward with `ln`
                                and if VFEC works would not even
                                require a full rebuild of all markup
                        - reimplement rebuildIndex/rebuildThread
                                work already done from
                                old read.php
                        BONUS: varnish support baked
                        in as purge() does not need to change
2. abandon Unix timestamp filenames,
name files based on their MD5sum
á la next, furthermore abandon src/, thumb/,
etc. dirs for all boards, go for global
blob storage with perhaps a skiplist
        - easy to implement, simply
                preseed the skiplist...

                PSEUDOCODE
                        for i in 0x0 ... 0xf
                                for j in 0x0 ... 0xf
                                        mkdir $i/$j,
                                done
                        done

        - then change $config[filename_func]
                to return the md5sum and not the
                current microtime.

                PSEUDOCODE
                function new_filename_func($f) {
                        $md5=md5($f['filename_tmp']);
                        return "$md5[0]/$md5[1]/$md5";
                };
        Benefits:
                less disk usage due to de-dup
                less read & write I/O because duplicate
                        files ignored/already in CF
                        cache
3. consolidated posts table
        - requires rewriting almost every query
        - could raise issues --- Next choked on
                its big posts table, and while it was
                fixed it took quite a bit of doing
        Benefits:
                - more effective global moderation
                - multiboards without long JOIN queries
                - overboard
        out of all VMP goals, this'd take the longest
4. move he CAPTCHA into the posts box
        - would have to be done with an AJAX query
        Drawback:
                - morons think is means they
                have to fill it out every
                post even though nothing
        Benefits:
                - less friction on first
                        post of the day and
                        for new users (implying 8ch
                        will ever get any - rofl)
        (low priority)
5. separate the uploading of images from the
posting of text
        - saves bandwdth and user frustration
        in case their post fails
6. remove "USER JS"
        - it's been used twice for XSS, people can
                just use GreaseMonkey/TamperMonkey
7. More to come

NOTE:
VMP is not a replacement, or even preferable to
Infinity Next. It simply is an alternative in case
Next's problems are insurmountable. Most, if not all
VMP ideas grow out of dev discussions
re: Next.