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Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by darreninthenet »

thaumasiotes wrote: post #47
lolinder wrote: post #26

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. 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?

There's nothing stopping you but, at the risk of going around in circles, why would you bother? Is there an improved experience from doing so?

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by herodoturtle »

tommica wrote: post #67
saltylicorice wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I spent so many years on SA and Homebrewtalk and they were both such rich communities. Discord is nice and all (and seems to be where things are going) but there's something overwhelming about chat that was really cozy about forums. (everything2 was incredible back when it was active and I really wish there was something like that again too)

Problem with discord is that it is still just a chat, with forums a newbie has a lot of threads to go through, lots of specific content to consume.

Yup agreed - and also forums are particularly suitable to the introverted lurkers among us ^_^

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by JasonLABS »

masenf wrote: post #43

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 a…

I have been doing this since 2015 and, I agree! It is amazing how useful it is. I've tried various note taking apps, project management systems, etc and I keep coming back to this system of keeping notes and staying organized. The best part for me is I always have access to my notes even if I don't have my main device with me.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by timeon »

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.

Not sure how it was in last decade but there were two things I remember that I didn't like about phpBB forums:

- lack of threads

- signature noise

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by timeon »

Ayesh wrote: post #90

Ah good times. These forum software were so easy to available and ubiquitous to a point that everyone and their dog had their own forum. Customizable signatures, BBcode, user flairs, reputation systems, register to download, etc all were pretty fun. The privacy was superior too. Almost nobody used their real names, and the profile pictures were crafted animated gifs. Sure they got hacked once in a while, and admins w…

I hated signatures. Often posts were one-line short while signature had several lines with images. It was hard to scroll and read forum like that.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by skipnup »

themodelplumber wrote: post #77
BizarreByte wrote: post #38

I used to despise PhpBB, at the time I thought it was vastly inferior to SMF. SMF seemed far more professional, the closest you could get to vbulletin while being free. In retrospect I miss it just as much. I really do mourn the loss of communities I was part of, I even owned one for a short while. The friends, the discussions, the projects, all lost to time.

I wasn't a fan of PhpBB either but got used to it as a user. PunBB, Flux, and MyBB were fantastic for small admin teams. There was very little overhead for modification and maintenance. I ran a PunBB board for over a decade. It was extremely lightweight, and if you left off the footer ID & version info in the template you wouldn't get hacked nearly as easily as with the popular systems. (One of the worst ever was whe…

WoltLab Burning Board was the one big German counterpart to PhpBB, quite popular in Germany at the time.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by benatkin »

PetahNZ wrote: post #85
benatkin wrote: post #74

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Eh, it doesn't matter that I know PHP. I don't want to use it and have barely touched it in the last few years, despite understanding many of its quirks. I'm still using WordPress at the moment but if I have to write PHP I might just quit using it. Such a simple question as whether something is passed by reference or by value shouldn't result in "This is a super interesting piece of information! Looks like it's true;…

Are you asking what php version uses copy on write for arrays? If so, it's all of them (at least in the last decade). I have never known it not to do this.

No, I'm not asking anything. I'm just saying that PHP doesn't have what I expect from a programming language and that I've chosen not to use it.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by timeon »

nsonha wrote: post #32
nigamanth wrote: post #3

This goes on to prove that PHP is still relevant today. No matter how many new frameworks come up, we all know PHP anyways.

every figgin web dev topic, popularity does not evidence merits. It's just a shitty language that existed at the right time when web technologies were booming. When more options become available, people stop choosing PHP. And please don't reply with js, like "but PHP is better than shit", that's a real high bar.

> When more options become available, people stop choosing PHP.

Probably rare but I had task to rewrite Node API to PHP because of deployment...

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by dagw »

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

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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…

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.

That sounds quite a lot like the old usenet model actually. You got an account on one usenet server and it was up to the server admin to decide which usenet groups they wanted to partake in and which other usenet servers it wanted to pull/push posts from/to. Other usenet servers could also decide to cut off certain servers if they misbehaved.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by rhn_mk1 »

PhpBB forums are in the sweet spot of permanence.

What's the easiest/cheapest way to test-host a forum?

Discourse wants payments, which doesn't make a lot of sense for something that might not even get used.

PHP, in my recollection, has always been a pain to deploy and to take care of. Does there exist something lightweight, storing data in sqlite, not requiring JS to even operate, and easy to update? I'm talking libre ofc.

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