Hmm, I'm not receiving an activation/confirmation email and can't post- do I need to wait to be admitted or is there something I'm doing wrong?
Edit: Haha nice old school Lonely Island reference in the Sports sub-forum subtitle
Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
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#112Anyone 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…
Didn't think I'd see EJ mentioned here. I distinctly recall planning and reading raiding strategies in there fur hours. I think there largest Onyxia thread was started by me. Glorious times.
Glorious indeed. Mal'Ganis represent!
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#113Nice Gemini-esque type feel.
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#114It loads a huge chunk of obfuscated javascript buildshared something something. I thought that was more recent than early 2000s. Also it loads fonts from google. It all seems way too modern. The main forum I remember using in that era was Webcrossing, which was more like Hacker News in being mostly text, though (my preference) not threaded. Usenet was also still going strong back then. Added: it is quite hard to use…
Lynx?!? Sir, I mean no disrespect, but it may be time to move away from your 1996 dumb terminal.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#115Hmm, I'm not receiving an activation/confirmation email and can't post- do I need to wait to be admitted or is there something I'm doing wrong? Edit: Haha nice old school Lonely Island reference in the Sports sub-forum subtitle
yep you need to be manually approved for now! you should be good to post now but let me know if you're still locked out
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#116Beautiful!
Would you ever consider building/porting this to nostr?
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#117Can I just say that you've done a remarkably good job at capturing the feel of old school forums without going overboard into old school UI/UX? The spacing, font choices and just general layout feel modern enough without being overbearing. It's very pleasant to browse.
that's actually one thing that I don't like about it. it looks like every other generic corporate website or Wordpress template, and certainly nothing like the forums I remember.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#118It loads a huge chunk of obfuscated javascript buildshared something something. I thought that was more recent than early 2000s. Also it loads fonts from google. It all seems way too modern. The main forum I remember using in that era was Webcrossing, which was more like Hacker News in being mostly text, though (my preference) not threaded. Usenet was also still going strong back then. Added: it is quite hard to use…
Lynx?!? Sir, I mean no disrespect, but it may be time to move away from your 1996 dumb terminal.
Early 2000s forums should work fine with 1996 terminals.
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#119Hmm, I'm not receiving an activation/confirmation email and can't post- do I need to wait to be admitted or is there something I'm doing wrong? Edit: Haha nice old school Lonely Island reference in the Sports sub-forum subtitle
yep you need to be manually approved for now! you should be good to post now but let me know if you're still locked out
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#120Earlier quoted context omitted.
They seem to make a comeback of sorts. I know a few podcasts at least that have gathered their community in "old school" web forums. Some of them literally use the old phpBB, but some use much more modern and mature software, that is a pleasure to use. They all however still adhere to the linear (non-tree) thread model. You can answer to individual posts and they are then linked together, but all posts still appear i…
With all the people wishing for forums but not wanting to host, I'm surprised nobody had made a Discord-for-forums. Threaded, not reddit.
I hope not. It would become another closed unindexable ad plastered silo. Check out the fandom wikis for an example of how it would probably look.