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Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#41
Good luck. I definitely think personal webpages and self-hosted forums need to make a comeback.

However...

Your FAQ link leads to a 404 page, and the "legalese" on the registration page seems like a bit much to me. And why should I need to be registered to see the "team" page and profiles?

It's just a web forum, don't take things so seriously. You're an admin, you can literally just ban people for acting up, you don't have to expect to back it up in a court of law or anything.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#42
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Hmm, interesting. I'll take a look, thanks for letting me know. Just so I'm clear, this happened immediately after registering? Or did you do anything else that triggered this?

That is happening because you are running PHP 7.2. In that file $this->extra_headers is initialized as non-countable NULL. Basically phpBB needs to update their code base to support newer versions of PHP. A quick fix would be to change "var ... $extra_headers" at the top of the file to "protected $extra_headers = [];".

Thanks for detailing this, I'll get it fixed tonight.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#43
post #41

Good luck. I definitely think personal webpages and self-hosted forums need to make a comeback. However... Your FAQ link leads to a 404 page, and the "legalese" on the registration page seems like a bit much to me. And why should I need to be registered to see the "team" page and profiles? It's just a web forum, don't take things so seriously. You're an admin, you can literally just ban people for acting up, you don'…

All of those things are default settings that I haven't gotten to either from time available or just not knowing the ins and outs of the software.

All of those items are in my todo list now!

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#44
post #43
post #41

Good luck. I definitely think personal webpages and self-hosted forums need to make a comeback. However... Your FAQ link leads to a 404 page, and the "legalese" on the registration page seems like a bit much to me. And why should I need to be registered to see the "team" page and profiles? It's just a web forum, don't take things so seriously. You're an admin, you can literally just ban people for acting up, you don'…

All of those things are default settings that I haven't gotten to either from time available or just not knowing the ins and outs of the software. All of those items are in my todo list now!

Also, maybe consider pinning a bug reporting/code thread in the software development section.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#45
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Earlier quoted context omitted.

All of those things are default settings that I haven't gotten to either from time available or just not knowing the ins and outs of the software. All of those items are in my todo list now!

Also, maybe consider pinning a bug reporting/code thread in the software development section.

Good call, will do.

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#46
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This site was borne of the discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17068138 (Specifically this part of the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17071224 ) I spun up an instance of phpBB (trying to keep costs down) and customized a ThemeForest theme to make it not ugly. I'll post a thread today that lists all of my notes from the setup process of the site for anyone interested. I'm a huge fan of…

Nice man, reminds me of a forum we used to visit ;-)

;)

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#48

I like this idea because HN mods (reasonably) discourage certain types of discussions as off-topic. But I'm actually interested to know what HNers think about various topics that may be deemed off-topic by mods. Looking forward to joining your community!

Thank you! I'm not quite sure how we'll deal with off topic stuff, I personally think it's fine as long as it's in an official off topic/general area. We'll see how it goes!

Re: Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN

#49

Nice job. I've actually been looking for more places to hang out with the HN crowd. I'm not sure about this approach though. Forums are too centralized and don't feel interactive enough. I'd much rather see a HN community on Matrix or something similar.

That was actually part of the point of using an "old school" software package for this. I totally understand that there are newer/arguably "better" ways to handle online conversation, but some of us grew up on forums like this so the nostalgia is just right.
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