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Anyone 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://elitist…
The forum at forum.hardware.fr was for most of its main mature code parts written between 2000 and 2001. It has not upgraded revision since about 2010. It has a quite outdated but efficient look and UI even in 2023. Way better thread handling than reddit IMHO. The guys (well almost one sole guy) started a bit before - in 2007 or so - a company (MesDiscussions.net) and sold the forum engine to the most successful fren…
https://forum.rpg.net/index.php?threads/turbo-necro-book-of-... I am to blame for a 20-year necropost.
After reddit implodes, I vote that we bring back forums and/or BBS's
Legendary: https://basementcommunity.com/offenses
Anyone 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://elitist…
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AOL Server is still kickin https://sourceforge.net/projects/aolserver/
You can still go to these. Genmay.com is still on life support.
Baen'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