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#+date: [2026-07-21 Tue]
#+title: Forking SkunkyArt
#+description: Announcing my fork of SkunkyArt, an alternative privacy frontend for DeviantArt, now maintained under Zero Labs.
#+slug: skunkyart-fork
#+filetags: :development:self-hosting:
* SkunkyArt
I've forked [[https://git.macaw.me/skunky/SkunkyArt][SkunkyArt]], an alternative privacy frontend for DeviantArt that works
entirely without JavaScript, over to the [[https://github.com/zerolabsco][Zero Labs]] organization on GitHub.
** Project Links
- [[https://github.com/zerolabsco/skunky-art][Source]]
- [[https://github.com/zerolabsco/skunky-art/blob/master/INSTANCES.md][Instances]]
- [[https://github.com/zerolabsco/skunky-art/issues][Issues]]
** 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.
** 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, [[https://github.com/zerolabsco/devianter][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:
#+begin_src sh
docker pull ghcr.io/zerolabsco/skunky-art:latest
#+end_src
- *Tooling*: added CI, golangci-lint, and outbound request throttling for
DeviantArt.
* 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 [[https://github.com/zerolabsco/skunky-art][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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