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Re: PhpBB

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Post by progbits »

dbbk wrote: post #37
Macha wrote: post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The mods being distributed as manual diff application instructions and then auto mod installers became a thing. Also called all caps MODs to distinguish them from forum moderators.

This is the hardest nostalgia. I'd forgotten about the manual diff! I was doing this at 13 and was basically what got me started in PHP development in general.

Oh yes! Same for Wordpress. And then you try to combine two mods but the patches don't merge cleanly.

I remember when Drupal introduced actual plugin hooks how revolutionary that felt :D

Re: PhpBB

#72

Post by mortenjorck »

The old PhpBB/VBulletin format has a certain familiar charm to it, but I find it hard to go back after using modern forum systems like Discourse that fix a lot of the old paradigm's UX shortcomings.

Anyone have experience with Flarum (https://flarum.org)? I've been peripherally aware of it for years (it it looks like it's still quite active on GitHub) and it looks like a nice lighter-weight alternative to Discourse which I know gets some flak for being resource-heavy.

Re: PhpBB

#73

Post by dragontamer »

Pxtl wrote: post #55
hbn wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also way easier to build a community when the buy-in is clicking a "subscribe" button with an account you already have and are logged into and knowing you can unsubscribe at any time, as opposed to registering another username, giving a random site admin your email, verifying your email, trusting they're not gonna leak your info or password, etc. Plus everyone already knows how to use all the functionality, and…

See, this is one of many reasons why I'm sad we still use usernames/passwords for so many sites. I'm much more likely to register for a site if it supports 3rd-party auth instead of managing another password. It's too bad we don't have a properly open way to do that -- no "auth with this address" but instead a fixed hand-coded list of FB, Google, etc.

https://indieweb.org/IndieAuth

All we need for "identity" is a webpage that the world reasonably expects us to control.

For an extreme example, my "identity" is simply my page at https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=dragontamer.

Because I "control" the page, and because most people have reason to trust dang/Hacker News to not manipulate my "About Page", it serves as an identity.

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That being said, Hacker News "About" pages probably isn't the best place for a general web identity. But maybe a static-page at "neocities.org", or "Github", etc. etc. serve as an identity in practice.

Re: PhpBB

#74

Post by asciimov »

Yeah, no...

Everybody I know that once ran PhpBB stopped using it because they would always get overrun by spam bots.

Re: PhpBB

#75

Post by deadly_syn »

seydor wrote: post #36

Most people don't want to admit it, but running a subreddit is much more fun than running your own forum. Even if you magically had the users, you also have the FULL responsibility , up to the legal consequnces for the stuff that your users do, plus you have all the technical trouble. Reddit gives that for free to moderators. They can make any community for shits n giggles, break it, fix it, abandon it etc. and none…

I think SomethingAwful actuslly solves this problem eloquently, people are kes slikely to behave poorly when they pay for an account and have their name with site administration.

Alternatively i think building an invite only community by way of "web of trust" would also mitigate a lot of these issues.

Re: PhpBB

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Post by squeaky-clean »

guestbest wrote: post #44
lagniappe wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Reddit comments can contain images that display with the text, without requiring a click to open. Previously it was text only, but that is no longer the case.

That is only for new topics/posts. They don’t display in the comments in the vanilla user experience.

Slightly under a year ago reddit added support for images and gifs in comments themselves.

https://www.reddit.com/r/cats/comments/yo17rw/i_just_found_o...

Re: PhpBB

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Post by mostlysimilar »

Pxtl wrote: post #55
hbn wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's also way easier to build a community when the buy-in is clicking a "subscribe" button with an account you already have and are logged into and knowing you can unsubscribe at any time, as opposed to registering another username, giving a random site admin your email, verifying your email, trusting they're not gonna leak your info or password, etc. Plus everyone already knows how to use all the functionality, and…

See, this is one of many reasons why I'm sad we still use usernames/passwords for so many sites. I'm much more likely to register for a site if it supports 3rd-party auth instead of managing another password. It's too bad we don't have a properly open way to do that -- no "auth with this address" but instead a fixed hand-coded list of FB, Google, etc.

Is it really a lot of effort "managing" a password when your browser will literally create, pre-fill, and save those credentials for you?

Valid argument in 2003. Not so much in 2023.

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