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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by bboygravity »

catach wrote: post #148
Klonoar wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm discussing UI/UX, not the stack. The back button is... something else here.

Isn't responsiveness on input definitely a UX concern, and doubly so when it changes the feel of a common operation in a specific context?

I would say responsiveness is the number 1 most important UI property. At least for me.

The modern web designers and app builders clearly don't agree with me with their heavy websites that make the browser eat a gig or so of RAM and all have unnecesarily slow UI's.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by ricopags »

braingenious wrote: post #136

I see that there’s an “SA refugee” thread… is this meant to be another one of those or is that just a joke? Historically SA spinoffs haven’t turned out to be the best communities. edit: Horse Porn Junction motwithstanding, of course

might want to delete the comment, or at least the edit. you should really know better

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by ricopags »

partly_cloudy wrote: post #2

built in remix.run with a Python backend, basementcommunity is a nod to early forums from the early 2000s like something awful and fark, focusing on manual moderation and discussions happen in chronological order

any plans to share the code?

I've been thinking of rebooting a crappy club for jerks and this looks like it could be a great jumping off point if you'd be willing to share

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by partly_cloudy »

julianlam wrote: post #146

As the maintainer of a self-proclaimed "modern" forum software, I always get really excited when new board software comes out. You've probably discovered that building forum software is a lot more complicated than it looks. Those early boards really had a lot more going on under the hood than you thought! It took us (a team of 3) two solid years before we considered ourselves on par with those old boards, feature-wis…

haha oh totallllyyy. i started writing the backend back in february of last year and i just had issue after issue, but overall super fun to solve the problems

i'm also curious how you got into making a product around it

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by jszymborski »

idiocrat wrote: post #129
Vapormac wrote: post #72

The (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) is chef's kiss

This turned me off. The reason given for the ban that the user has used Dostoevsky's book title as his handle name.

I'm pretty sure the username was changed to IDIOT so that the offensive name would no longer be shown.

There are far worse usernames than idiot on there.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by anon7725 »

noduerme wrote: post #100
BFLpL0QNek wrote: post #86

Nice design. I miss the 2000s forums. They were a great source of information that was easy to read, search and for search engines to index. As the posts where often by enthusiasts they were a treasure trove, especially the automotive forums for repair information. The closest we have now is Reddit but doesn’t feel the same and the UX certainly isn’t as good even comparing to 2000s hobbyists installing vanilla Vbulle…

There are still some quality 90s-style automotive forums around, and many take donations. A steel guitar forum I'm on charges a nominal $5/year. Reddit may have breadth of scale, but these have depth and expertise that makes it worth keeping them going.

These forums are still very popular in automotive and RVing. Most car and RV brands have a very active instance.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by braingenious »

ricopags wrote: post #153
braingenious wrote: post #136

I see that there’s an “SA refugee” thread… is this meant to be another one of those or is that just a joke? Historically SA spinoffs haven’t turned out to be the best communities. edit: Horse Porn Junction motwithstanding, of course

might want to delete the comment, or at least the edit. you should really know better

??? Did you not have an account on HPJ?
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