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vBulletin, hilariously awful moderation, arguments over signature sizes, cliques, random outages, people who had just got DSL posting images that ruined the experience for posters still on dial-up.
Great times. The internet feels so banal these days.
You can still go to these. Genmay.com is still on life support.
It's unfortunate that classic web forums are dying, they're so much more useful as repositories of information than the subreddits, Discords, and Facebook groups that have replaced them over the years.
built in remix.run with a Python backend, basementcommunity is a nod to early forums from the early 2000s like something awful and fark, focusing on manual moderation and discussions happen in chronological order
You can still go to these. Genmay.com is still on life support.
As is Something Awful, which OP lists as inspiration. The forums are apparently still self sustaining financially, but I don't believe the user count has moved significantly for around a decade. It's unfortunate that classic web forums are dying, they're so much more useful as repositories of information than the subreddits, Discords, and Facebook groups that have replaced them over the years.
Early 2000s message boards were so much fun. vBulletin, hilariously awful moderation, arguments over signature sizes, cliques, random outages, people who had just got DSL posting images that ruined the experience for posters still on dial-up. Great times. The internet feels so banal these days.
I don’t see how anyone can hold this opinion in the current day. Early 2000s forums made a rule of ensuring things didn’t devolve into flame wars. Modern discussion technology incentivized them and turned our society into a giant flame war
After reddit implodes, I vote that we bring back forums and/or BBS's
built in remix.run with a Python backend, basementcommunity is a nod to early forums from the early 2000s like something awful and fark, focusing on manual moderation and discussions happen in chronological order
Why Remix with a Python backend? Did you need Python for anything specific? Is there some specific need that a pure Remix backend couldn’t give you? Just curious.
honestly i like the seperation of concerns though, so i'm happy with it. might even rewrite the API again to teach myself rust
built in remix.run with a Python backend, basementcommunity is a nod to early forums from the early 2000s like something awful and fark, focusing on manual moderation and discussions happen in chronological order
I've been playing around with remix and i come from a python backend. would love to know more about how you mix these two ?. Is the backend essentially just a rest API with a handoff to remix for rendering ?.