>>12I used it to run a leftypol-themed textboard called leftybbs for a month, which got maybe a couple dozen posts. Compiling it yourself and typing "make install-all" to test it under /var/www/zbbs would be trivial.
The main idea is boards and threads only have a filesystem representation. Moderation is done by an account in the zbbs group creating files in a thread directory to sage, pin, lock or "zap" (slide and unlink) them respectively. Post moderation is only possible by editing the thread HTML. You could write further moderation tools and patch it into a full-fledged imageboard with moderate effort, but personally i don't think that would be particularly elegant or worth the while. I'm still considering options for a successor design without locking and with a more accessible filesystem representation, running a set of pluggable templating modules in the style of a build system (second system syndrome much?).