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Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by derrida »

gnulinux wrote: post #11
ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #6

I'm surprised it's still around. They did a good job on the software, but discussion forums seemed to go belly-up, after Facebook took off (MySpace, too, I guess). Maybe they will make a comeback?

Forums were doing just fine during the golden age of Facebook, at least in my generation. I thought what made forums go belly-up was reddit. Once reddit became a mainstream social media, there was no need for niche forums as anyone could just create a subreddit.

Was early reddit code the bunch of arc macros and this here (hn) originally? Was it basically a fork of pg code for this (site you are reading now)?

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by mig39 »

I still run 4 different web forums, and they still get a bunch of traffic. They all used to be phpBB back in the day, but all were migrated to Discourse a long time ago.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by masenf »

In the last month, I’ve been experimentally replacing my use of Trello, stickies, and todo lists with a phpBB instance.

So far I’m the only user, but it’s a surprisingly nice system for keeping track of notes and regular status updates on my projects. And when I need to collaborate with someone, the permission system is quite nice as well.

The fact that it’s free, mature, and relatively easy to install and maintain are what led me to give it a try.

I have plans to eventually write a kanban view and scheduled post plug-ins to make it a bit better project tracker.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by nonethewiser »

mhd wrote: post #17
lolinder wrote: post #9

Every time I see hype about Mastodon and the fediverse I miss the phpBB days. There was something special about the interlocking network of forums that didn't need to "federate" in any formal capacity. We just joined communities we liked and formed overlapping networks like normal people do and always have done. No one at the time felt any need to try to accommodate the whole world in one venue. As someone who never…

One definining characteristic of internet media is where they rank on the "transience" spectrum. The most extreme end probably being some old school chat apps and IRC on one side, and encylopedic wiki's (not the only kind) on the other. And while both forums and Usenet were closely rooted in current conversation, they had a more long-standing meaning, too. Where you could follow whole discussions even years later and…

The thread on HN the other day about wanting to revive old threads made me realize how transient posts are.

The difference is basically that comments in threads are not linear by time and threads are not sorted by most recent comment.

Free app idea.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by geerlingguy »

chippiewill wrote: post #10
hunter2_ wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Drupal is up there, maybe not as a household name like WordPress, but in some big organizations.

Drupal's been on the heavy decline over the past 10 years. Drupal 8/9/10 might turn it around now that Drupal 7 is set to officially retire eventually but it's not had the staying power in the way Wordpress has. Drupal doesn't really seem to have an ecosystem left anymore.

Drupal went really high end, and targeted the enterprise use case a lot more. It competes with Sitecore and Sharepoint more than Wordpress these days.

It's terrible for a simple blog or small community or nonprofit site these days. I know because I still run my blog on it, only due to inertia at this point (golden hammer).

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by geerlingguy »

chx wrote: post #23
thejosh wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It had some decent developers and ecosystem around it a few years ago, but honestly a lot of bureaucracy and drama killed a lot of the enthusiasm in the project and contributed modules for many.

...

Always good to see you here chx! I hope you are doing well these days.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by thaumasiotes »

lolinder wrote: post #26
rtpg wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I do think that Mastodon does accomplish this somewhat, honestly! Like each instance has its own vibe, and the sort of cross-instance virality is way less than "everyone in the same bucket" stuff. I feel like reddit's success is somewhat similar. You don't have to futz around with a bunch of accounts, but you're still working within different worlds, so to speak. Granted, this is less than, say, Discord's "each serve…

> I do think that Mastodon does accomplish this somewhat, honestly! Like each instance has its own vibe, and the sort of cross-instance virality is way less than "everyone in the same bucket" stuff. It's still based on a model that is fundamentally different than the way that people socialize in the real world. You could do it differently, but the way it's designed you're supposed to have a single Mastodon account an…

> You could do it differently, but the way it's designed you're supposed to have a single Mastodon account and pick an instance that hosts it. Instances decide whether to federate with other instances or not.

Why wouldn't you just have a different Mastodon account on every instance where you want a presence?

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by alyandon »

jdwithit wrote: post #37
lolinder wrote: post #9

Every time I see hype about Mastodon and the fediverse I miss the phpBB days. There was something special about the interlocking network of forums that didn't need to "federate" in any formal capacity. We just joined communities we liked and formed overlapping networks like normal people do and always have done. No one at the time felt any need to try to accommodate the whole world in one venue. As someone who never…

As a fellow internet old timer, I agree that social media never really hooked me. I still spend vastly more time reading and posting on the SomethingAwful forums, which have been going for more than 20 years at this point, than I do Twitter. Maybe it's just "old man yells at cloud" and me refusing to change with the times, but I just strongly prefer the dynamics of forums. Forums are also great for niche interests an…

Same - there is just something about the forums style experience (and especially SA) that appeals to me more than other forms of social media.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by BlueTemplar »

bluedino wrote: post #15
mostlysimilar wrote: post #2

Forum software of phpBB's era got so many things right that we get wrong today. I'm glad it's still chugging along. It's valuable software, even if that value is contained to small islands outside of the continents that are the mega-platforms of social media.

One bad thing about old forum threads is a lot of the images are lost. Disk space and bandwidth were still expensive back then. The free image hosts mostly disappeared or started charging (so many forums have dead photobucket links).

Same thing is going to happen again once imgur shuts down.

While the pictures that were actually hosted on the forum itself are usually fine.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by avx56 »

derrida wrote: post #41
gnulinux wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Forums were doing just fine during the golden age of Facebook, at least in my generation. I thought what made forums go belly-up was reddit. Once reddit became a mainstream social media, there was no need for niche forums as anyone could just create a subreddit.

Was early reddit code the bunch of arc macros and this here (hn) originally? Was it basically a fork of pg code for this (site you are reading now)?

It was (is?) Python: https://github.com/reddit-archive/reddit
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