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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…
Do you think you'd feel comfortable sharing some images with redacted information to show how you are using it? Would love to peek into how a forum tool is being used in a non conventional way. Thanks!
Here’s a link and some screen grabs of my topic list.
https://gist.github.com/masenf/d0a4d274da7b7a6175f50d1f1246b...
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That doesn't solve the issue of the millions of embeds and links though.
Why not ? (Besides that of course it would be probably easier for the Archive to deal with multimedia inside the same website.)
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I can see the appeal in the discussion, but I certainly don't miss the forum UI. There's too much clutter to accomodate post metadata, avatars, titles, and mostly obnoxious signatures. Pagination and the lack of hierarchical comments to create sub-threads made it difficult to navigate and find interesting discussions.
Personally I think hierarchical comments are the worst part of reddit/HN. They try to force a structure where there is none, and make it more difficult to navigate a discussion. 1. With hierarchical comments, you can't respond to multiple people. If you want to make an observation about the way a thread is heading, or point out a mistake multiple posters are making, you have to either (a) respond to the comment that…
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Why not ? (Besides that of course it would be probably easier for the Archive to deal with multimedia inside the same website.)
What do you mean why not? If a forum embeds an image from imgur and imgur ceases to exist the image stops working. It doesn't matter if archive.org has a copy, you wont be able to see it without manually going to archive.org to find every image by its former embed url (which likley isnt archived as thats a different url to the one you see on their site).
I'm on a soccer messageboard, and it's the only place on the internet where I recognize handles. Like Cheers, it's a place to chat, where everybody knows your name. You aren't crowded out by a thousand new people joining every day. Social media-centric tech bloggers turned this into a disadvantage ("low growth"), where for actual users, it's a godsend.
Brigading and derailaing cthreads, common on Reddit and Twitter, is largely impossible because you have to set up a user account first, and that friction drives away all but the most dedicated trolls.
I've had a Reddit account for 10 years and don't know a single person on it. It's no different from Facebook or Twitter, they're all just a amorphous chattering mass.
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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.
Discord is attempting to have something more like forums[1], but as am not a heavy Discord user I haven't tried it myself. I used to run a phpBB forum and there was something about being an admin of a forum where people you didn't know in real life came to talk. The fact that Discord distorts the term 'server' to mean 'a channel managed by us' irks me. 1 - https://discord.com/blog/forum-channels-space-for-organized-.…
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Same - there is just something about the forums style experience (and especially SA) that appeals to me more than other forms of social media.
I can see the appeal in the discussion, but I certainly don't miss the forum UI. There's too much clutter to accomodate post metadata, avatars, titles, and mostly obnoxious signatures. Pagination and the lack of hierarchical comments to create sub-threads made it difficult to navigate and find interesting discussions.
The good thing about web forums is they allowed you to disable those things at the user level. Social media is top-down by design. Want to get rid of Twitter's useless 'For You' default tab? You can't, because the company has decided that that's something they want you to use, regardless of your preference.
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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.
Call me crazy but aren’t you describing a forum?
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PHP was / (is?) hacky but there's no denying the very good culture of "getting stuff done" (and monetizing it) around it.
Precisely because PHP was always used and is still used in the front-line trenches of the web where business needs are always the #1 concern. Its used by small to medium businesses, professionals, individuals to run their businesses, communities and so on. There isn't any room for overoptimization, there isnt any room for wasting the non-existent VC money in developing questionable features, there isnt any room for a…
that is not the merit of PHP itself, more like characteristic of the period (when tech salary hasn't yet been inflated and consumer devices' computing power has not yet become abundant).