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

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Post by Gordonjcp »

eXpl0it3r wrote: post #188

I wish there were more "modern" old school forum software alternatives, which you can still just throw onto any LAMP stack hosting provider. I think the closest thing I've found is Flarum. I'm predicting that in a decade or two, we'll start to notice, that there's a huge gap in retained information, because so many online interactions moved into closed systems, such as social media pages or Discord servers, which are…

FlaskBB is pretty good. It uses Flask as the name implies which is a Python framework, but beyond that you don't need anything really startling to get it going. It containerises reasonably nicely too.

I've been running https://rangerovers.pub on it for about five or six years now.

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

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Post by Nition »

freddie_mercury wrote: post #135
citizenkeen wrote: post #110

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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/

I think they mean more like, imagine Reddit, but instead of anyone being able to create a new Subreddit on a new topic, it's anyone can create a new Subforum.

Discourse forums still need each owner to set up and pay for hosting.

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

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Post by wil421 »

yywwbbn wrote: post #183
Lolaccount wrote: post #181

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I cannot tell you how much I disagree. I want rank by reply-date. That, in itself, is (and was) a measure of popularity.

If you have <= 100 people actively posting on the forum than yes.

I’ve been an on and off member of car forums. Lots of forums are broken down into sub forms based on model and years, and then sub topic like general discussion, engine problems, mods and so on.

It’s much easier to have a few 100s of people commenting on various parts of the forum than a one single feed like HN.

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

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Post by zelphirkalt »

This project idea is one I have for a long time now: Build a proper forum, like the ones I used to frequent back in the day, but with a modern programming language, applying all the coding-fu I have learned since then. However, it is a big task, so I have not yet started ... Maybe I should think of an iterative strategy to get there and go step by step.

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

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Post by zelphirkalt »

Klonoar wrote: post #28

Can 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.

I agree with this, also because of the following reason: Wow! A forum, that does not only show a white page, when having JS disabled! The usual current crop of forum software will not even render anything, if you don't allow 3 CDNs and some third party JS to run.

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

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Post by sneak »

zelphirkalt wrote: post #194

This project idea is one I have for a long time now: Build a proper forum, like the ones I used to frequent back in the day, but with a modern programming language, applying all the coding-fu I have learned since then. However, it is a big task, so I have not yet started ... Maybe I should think of an iterative strategy to get there and go step by step.

I started one in golang but haven't had enough time to work on it much yet. Want to collaborate?

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

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Post by ivanhoe »

Pilottwave wrote: post #175

It looks great. However browsing this forum reminds my of the biggest innovation since these days. The reddit/HN like front page going across multiple subjects, ranked not by reply date, but by popularity. Combined with a nested comment system, ranked by popularity. For 99% of topics this is the most efficient way to browse and discover. Hence i feel that, besides nostalgia and very small communities (where you "know…

What to you describe quickly grows into full-blown recommendation engine.

And IMHO the beauty of the old-school chronological/category organization over the recommendation engines is that it's super simple and predictable, making it a lot less stressful to me, as it's not constantly trying to push your buttons, playing with your FoMO instincts and engagement metrics. If I don't feel like reading something now, it'll still be there in 2 weeks, I can find it easily if I wish.

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

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Post by clord »

Klonoar wrote: post #172
100721 wrote: post #147

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I think the back button fits perfectly into the UI/UX. It is, quite literally, part of the UI. We don't have much control over the UI portion, but it is firmly in the realm of UX.

UX, maybe. UI? No, not even remotely in the conversation. The commenter is complaining that the back button took too long and the creator responded to indicate it's a load issue. At no point is that in the realm of design, which is what my comment was about.

Loading and performance behind loading states are UI concerns, especially on a big distributed system like the modern web. Perhaps you allow native browser elements to provide that UI, perhaps customize it somehow, but a UI designer must consider how the page fills as data arrives. Do you do the ‘spinner hell’ thing? Keep it blank? FOUC? Show cache and update? These are primary UI concerns.
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