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Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by antifa » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 11:24 PM UTC

POPOSYS wrote: post #121

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.

But people using forums also got so many things wrong. One thing that really went wrong: people using forums as issue trackers. Just look at the mega topics that exist for one $thing with never-ending addition of posts that are a nightmare to search and extract knowledge from. Instead of using an issue tracker, they post more and more messages to the one forum topic dedicated to $thing. Some hardware related forums s…

> Just look at the mega topics that exist for one $thing with never-ending addition of posts that are a nightmare to search and extract knowledge from.

That's basically the default experience of discord.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by antifa » Tue, Feb 07, 2023, 11:31 PM UTC

benatkin wrote: post #74

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.

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;…

> Looks like it's true; but I couldn' find any official documentation supporting this fact.

The same user found the documentation after they bothered doing an interesting modern technique called "looking for it".

You'd have known that if you read the comment right after the one you copied.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by nstart » Thu, Feb 09, 2023, 3:15 AM UTC

masenf wrote: post #192

nstart wrote: post #124

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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!

Not sure how unconventional it is… I create topics for different projects or tasks, then regularly review/update them. Here’s a link and some screen grabs of my topic list. https://gist.github.com/masenf/d0a4d274da7b7a6175f50d1f1246b...

Just a quick late note of appreciation. My friends and I have been trying to have some community way of each of us sharing progress on hobbies and side projects. After looking at this it was a smack-forehead moment. Setting up a private discourse to keep track of things as we go along :)