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

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Post by idiocrat »

Arrath wrote: post #69
andy_andy_andy wrote: post #67

_incredible_ how quickly hacker news visitors start posting slurs

Oh you saw that thread by poster 'aaaaa' also? I registered just to tell them to fuck off but by the time I did the thread had been deleted. Way to go moderation!

It seems the forum is too generic, has no specialization, and has no seeded curated content.

So if some CRM company has their demo/demo portal, I also post aaaaaaaaaa to check the basic functionality, not hoping this will ever take off. I also post very long aaaaaaa....aaaaaaa to see how the interface deals with overflow.

Anyway whatever I post will be refreshed next day.

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

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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 RajT88 »

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.

Yep. That's how it went with my friends and I hosting phpBB for many years on a linux-based hosting provider.

When I spun up YAF.Net on an AWS IIS server, with a same-machine backend of SQLEXPRESS, it ran like a champ for years with hardly a blip. 16 bucks a month.

It wasn't ever really snappy, per se, but at least it was consistent and didn't bog down.

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

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Post by teolandon »

I haven't been this excited to jump in and post in a community in a while. There's just something so inviting in commenting on a thread knowing that your post will be there, in order, and won't be lost in the noise even if you didn't show up early.

I had a whole post written out on a thread, but apparently I need to wait for approval. Bit of a bummer but we'll see how long that takes. Good luck!

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

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Post by freddie_mercury »

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.

That's exactly what Discourse is. It's been around for almost a decade. Some people hate the UI.

Some examples running it

https://forums.woot.com/

https://forum.newrelic.com/s/

https://community.revolut.com/

https://forums.docker.com/

https://www.discourse.org/

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

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Post by DoItToMe81 »

braingenious wrote: post #136

I see that there’s an “SA refugee” thread… is this meant to be another one of those or is that just a joke? Historically SA spinoffs haven’t turned out to be the best communities. edit: Horse Porn Junction motwithstanding, of course

At the moment, SomethingAwful has probably the worst moderation in the existence of the site. It's a strictly controlled echo chamber that thousands of people have left. It might be legit.

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

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Post by braingenious »

DoItToMe81 wrote: post #137
braingenious wrote: post #136

I see that there’s an “SA refugee” thread… is this meant to be another one of those or is that just a joke? Historically SA spinoffs haven’t turned out to be the best communities. edit: Horse Porn Junction motwithstanding, of course

At the moment, SomethingAwful has probably the worst moderation in the existence of the site. It's a strictly controlled echo chamber that thousands of people have left. It might be legit.

As a super old-timer, that sounds a bit hyperbolic. I guess if you don’t remember aussie jim or Pele then yeah I could see not liking the mods, especially if you’re like, a D&D poster.

Then again, D&D posters have perpetually lived in the worst period of moderation in human history since the migration off UBB.

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

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Post by Apocryphon »

exodust wrote: post #122

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 readab…

Yeah I feel like there’s a corollary to Eternal September where while the common areas of the Internet might be flooded with n00bs, the places that are less than user-friendly may remain intact to the curmudgeonly and the niche. Old school forums are alive in general, even if in specifics many communities are slowly dwindling, completely unmonetizeable, or if they’re dwarfed by Twitter, Reddit, YouTube comment sections, etc.
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