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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by slotrans »

I love how fast it is.

I used to hang out on a lot of phpBB and vBulletin forums, and one thing that puzzles me in retrospect is why their performance was so terrible. I can certainly understand how the first versions would be not so great, but the authors released many new versions over the years that tweaked the styling and added a few features but the performance was always awful. Seems like if the authors had put their minds to it those forums could have been super fast, which everyone would have loved because slow forums translated into bigger hosting costs...

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by exodust »

Why talk in past tense about forums? Still plenty of active forums.

These days they are topic-specific, product specific. Some I've visited recently:

https://fuckcombustion.com/

https://forums.unrealengine.com/

https://forum.1010music.com

Every game on Steam has its own "forum"...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1167630/discussions/

This Australian forum is one of the few big ones with general topics and a nice readable design that hasn't changed in decades. Certain sub forums like news get unlocked once you're proven not a troll.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

https://gearspace.com/board/

Too many to list!

Even Roger Deakins (cinematographer) has his own forum: https://www.rogerdeakins.com/forums/

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by Aloha »

slotrans wrote: post #121

I love how fast it is. I used to hang out on a lot of phpBB and vBulletin forums, and one thing that puzzles me in retrospect is why their performance was so terrible. I can certainly understand how the first versions would be not so great, but the authors released many new versions over the years that tweaked the styling and added a few features but the performance was always awful . Seems like if the authors had pu…

Most of them were on overloaded shared hosting boxes. I know this because I worked for hosting providers in that era.

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by tennisflyi »

citizenkeen wrote: post #110
anyfoo wrote: post #99

Earlier 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.

Discord has a forum channel - https://support.discord.com/hc/en-us/articles/6208479917079-...

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by [deleted] »

BFLpL0QNek wrote: post #86

Nice design. I miss the 2000s forums. They were a great source of information that was easy to read, search and for search engines to index. As the posts where often by enthusiasts they were a treasure trove, especially the automotive forums for repair information. The closest we have now is Reddit but doesn’t feel the same and the UX certainly isn’t as good even comparing to 2000s hobbyists installing vanilla Vbulle…

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Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by aliqot »

partly_cloudy wrote: post #87
aliqot wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or just hand out invites to people on hn who have an email listed.

i just deployed a "account_enabled" feature so i'll manually approve new accounts coming in to post, but in the meantime you can make your account again

Walk in, 'user is on probation for this post'. Just like home :) Good luck with it

Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum

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Post by slotrans »

Aloha wrote: post #123
slotrans wrote: post #121

I love how fast it is. I used to hang out on a lot of phpBB and vBulletin forums, and one thing that puzzles me in retrospect is why their performance was so terrible. I can certainly understand how the first versions would be not so great, but the authors released many new versions over the years that tweaked the styling and added a few features but the performance was always awful . Seems like if the authors had pu…

Most of them were on overloaded shared hosting boxes. I know this because I worked for hosting providers in that era.

Oh for sure. But doesn't that increase the returns to making the code more efficient?

I don't remember which software it was but one of them would show, in the footer, a count of MySQL queries run. My memory tells me it would usually be in the 30-something range, maybe 50-something. It could have been 1!

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