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Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#42People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#43People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.
Forums are so much better for threaded conversations than anything else it’s amazing.
All our modern tools are chat based with some thread support hacked in.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#44Baen's Bar[0] (the forum for Baen publishing) is very early internet as well.
[0] https://baensbar.net/ but you'll have to register to see anything good
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#45Legendary: https://basementcommunity.com/offenses
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#46Anyone play World of Warcraft back in the day? Remember Elitist Jerks, their forum? Great place for solid gameplay discussion. And the general social threads in the Benefactors Bar were excellent. They had strict writing rules and moderators enforced the use of good grammar and complete sentences.
https://web.archive.org/web/20080913011707/http://elitistjer...
https://web.archive.org/web/20080921165026/http://elitistjer...
"Please don't use chatroom abbreviations like "ofc". Mostly a good post, so only a warning - just try to avoid this sort of thing in the future. Thanks. Also, for future reference: the word "I" should be capitalized."
Gold.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#47People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.
I think you are same! Great idea.
A forum is going to be way more searchable. If you want realtime notifications that was solved 50 or more years ago with email or say 20 ish years ago with RSS.
For this reason I prefer JIRA comments with @-ed colleagues over slack which provides the context and async communication.
An ephemeral slack-like (snapchat for teams!) might be useful for the remote equivalent of talking which is also ephemeral. Knowing that the conversation will be lost and will be interruptive should move most stuff on the forum.
ATC style short radio-style communications might be interesting for this too. “Dan please check broken build. Out”
But yeah there is a lot of cultural bias towards slack like chat systems and at large companies changing that would be like trying to switch away from active directory: unplausable!
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#48People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.
Things change when company grows and decides at some moment to limit the number of days to store Slack conversations.
After that phpbb-style forum suddenly becomes way more interesting than before.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#49Early 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.
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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#50People think I am insane but I often think forums would be way better than Slack or Teams for company collaboration.
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