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That will be a day of days. imgur shutting down will be like someone shaking your internet Etch-A-Sketch. The internet post imgur will have a completely different vibe.
Sounds like a job for archive.org
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…
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…
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 lib…
If you're happy to use Docker then the story of hosting it is pretty easy.
I wouldn't generally consider PHP a pain to deploy either for that matter, but I'm sure that all depends on your particular situation.
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 lib…
I think PHPBB ticks all those boxes, doesn't it?
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Algorithmic feed + moderators. This is what makes FB, twitter such horrible places for building a real community. Each thread in a FB group is valued but it's ability to create more traffic and more ads and not because of it's true value to the community. The result is that what comes in your feed is usually the feeds that generate extreme reactions from different sides. On forums if it's up you know it's a real disc…
I wonder if anyone has experimented with algorithms optimized for sustainable long-term community building. What would that even look like?
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 lib…
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…
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…
ActivityPub *should* (though nobody currently does, as far as I know) solve the problem of requiring a new identity for each service that you want to interact with. Ideally in a federated network you only need an account on one server and then have fun with everyone else.
I'm only speaking for myself but I feel account management fatigue having to juggle multiple ones for each social network/forum/etc. I want to interact with.
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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.
Could be - at least the communities I used to participate in seem to use Discord now.
Having said that in many contexts a forum with threads that have a clear topic are just so much more of an appropriate solution than chat apps. I don't understand why people prefer the latter (although it does explain why I prefer Zulip since it manages to be a good hybrid in how it organizes discussions).