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 # CheSSH
 
-Check out the USUFSLC presentation for this application to understand best what the hell this is:
+CheSSH is a distributed multiplayer implementation of the game of Chess over SSH, 
+written in Elixir, with Discord integrations to deliver alerts when players are 
+looking for opponents, or in games when it is a player's turn.
 
-[https://linux.usu.edu/stream/12](https://linux.usu.edu/stream/12)
+## Usage
+
+### Dependencies
++ `npm`
++ `elixir`
++ `postgresql`
++ `redis` (which you can ignore if you only use the ETS backend for Hammer for 
+  `config/dev.exs`)
+
+### Installation
+
+Do something among the lines of:
+
+```
+git clone https://github.com/Simponic/chessh
+cd chessh
+
+cp .env.example .env
+chmod 0700 .env
+
+# In one shell (after filling in your .env), start CheSSH
+export $(cat .env | xargs)
+mix ecto.create
+mix ecto.migrate
+iex -S mix
+
+# In another shell, start the frontend
+export $(cat .env | xargs)
+cd front
+npm install
+npm start
+```
+
+### Environment Variables (mostly optional)
++ `REACT_APP_DISCORD_INVITE` is the invite link to the discord server with the 
+  CheSSH bot
++ `REACT_APP_DISCORD_OAUTH` is the link (after replacing the GET params) that will 
+  be used to start OAUTH from the frontend
++ `CLIENT_REDIRECT_AFTER_OAUTH` & `SERVER_REDIRECT_URI` are self-explanatory
++ `REACT_APP_SSH_SERVER` and `REACT_APP_SSH_PORT` are used to build the .ssh config
+  given to users on the home page of CheSSH after authentication
++ `NEW_GAME_PINGABLE_ROLE_ID` is the role id of the role to ping when a player is
+  looking for an opponent
++ `REMIND_MOVE_CHANNEL_ID` is the channel id to create private threads with players
+  for move reminders and other communications
++ `NEW_GAME_CHANNEL_ID` is similar to the above
+
+## Architecture
+The process of building the pi cluster is wholly contained in the awful 
+~buildscripts~, which will individually ~ssh~ into separate pi's and build the 
+services locally as well as update the load balancer pi's configurations for nginx 
+and HAproxy.
+
+More brief architecture talk of CheSSH can be in my (albeit kinda cringe) FSLC 
+presentation on Elixir:
+[https://github.com/Simponic/chessh/blob/main/presentation/chessh.org](https://github.com/Simponic/chessh/blob/main/presentation/chessh.org)