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You may not want to view source on HN then.
wow did not expect that! interesting
You can export photos as html tables from GIMP for some reason too, example: https://chaoswebs.net/pepe/
Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
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#233Apart from the poor performance which surprised me considering I would expect it to be light, this is awesome and I for one sure miss an internet like this.
It's so corporate now...
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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.
Performance is part of design in software, much like how button feel is part of industrial design, or fabric qualities are part of fashion design. But I also see what you mean, you were talking about visual design.
Thank you for somehow being the only person in this complaint thread to grasp that, lol
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#235Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#236Apart from the poor performance which surprised me considering I would expect it to be light, this is awesome and I for one sure miss an internet like this. It's so corporate now...
hey i'd love to know more if you wouldn't mind helping! where exactly in the world are you located and in what ways are you seeing poor performance?
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#237Nice 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…
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…
There are still a lot of these old phpBB style forums in the wild, and some of them are still going strong. I have in mind TDPRI, Steve Hoffman, and Whiteblaze:
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#238Why 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…
While a lot of forums still exist, I think the amount of active communities has definitely declined. I was part of lots of forums in the past and many of them died because people eventually moved to other platforms. The way I see it, what made a forum great was the community, a constant stream of active posts and engagement. To me they were a hangout spot, a venue of entertainment more than anything else. These hango…
I've always avoided the "post what you had for dinner" content on forums. That casual stuff didn't work well for most forums. It's good that low quality content moved to social media.
> "decision by Google to devalue forum posts"
Google used to have a checkbox to restrict results to forums only. They removed that years ago, which annoyed many. But you can still add "forum results only" to your search, and Google will more or less try to return forum results as first results.
For example search for: bluebox headphone volume - forum results only
Google's first result is a helpful forum post on that subject. There's nothing stopping you asking search engines to give you exactly what you want. Since search engines are now boasting "AI", they will need to listen harder to people's requests.
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#239I 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!
Same. It would have been nice to know that I need approval before writing out my post.
hey sorry about that - you should be approved now and i went ahead and added a message for un-approved users so they'll know before they make a post
Re: Show HN: I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
#240I 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!
hey sorry about that - you should be approved now and i went ahead and added a message for un-approved users so they'll know before they make a post