Forking SkunkyArt

1. SkunkyArt

I've forked SkunkyArt, an alternative privacy frontend for DeviantArt that works entirely without JavaScript, over to the Zero Labs organization on GitHub.

1.1. Project Links

• Source
• Instances
• Issues

1.2. Why Fork?

I didn't fork this project just for fun. At the time I found it, the upstream repository hadn't been updated in over a year, carried a number of unresolved bugs, and every instance on its public list was a dead link. Rather than let a genuinely useful privacy frontend rot, I decided to pick it up and keep it maintained.

1.3. What's Changed So Far

The fork is already a handful of releases ahead of upstream. Highlights so far:

• Security & hardening: fixed a forged-subdomain bypass in the media proxy, hardened the HTTP transport, server timeouts, and panic paths, and tightened the random-art retry loop.
• Bug fixes: restored media serving, corrected the cache max-size conversion, fixed the build on macOS, and cleaned up various smaller issues.
• Dependencies: migrated to a maintained fork of the underlying DeviantArt API library, devianter, and bumped long-stale dependencies (with Dependabot keeping them current going forward).
• Distribution: prebuilt multi-arch Docker images (linux/amd64 and linux/arm64) are now published to GHCR on every release tag:

docker pull ghcr.io/zerolabsco/skunky-art:latest

• Tooling: added CI, golangci-lint, and outbound request throttling for DeviantArt.

2. Run an Instance!

Since all of the previously listed instances are gone, the instance list is starting fresh. If you'd like to host one, the README covers setup — including a Docker Compose example (plus an optional VPN egress variant) — and you can add your instance to the list with a quick PR or issue.

As always, bug reports and contributions are welcome.

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