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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...
Modding phpBB and starting new forums using phpBB (and later Invision Community) got me into php dev and basically the job and career I now have. Such a great product for building communities. It would be so good having this feeling again browsing forums on this software. The Subsilver theme was iconic and legendary.
Same. But for vBulletin. I then went on to build my own forum software (because who didn't?): http://web.archive.org/web/20040523030817/http://www.webtric...
It looks like a great experience to after you publish something, you just go and create a Lemmy instance (with closed down registration) to host QA forums, news discussion, and just community meetings. It looks much simpler and straight forward than managing it with all of twitter, reddit, and facebook.
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Forums and social news media are radically different experiences, I'm not understanding why are we even comparing the two. A forum is made of long-lasting discussions, spanning months or years. You login and you see whether there's new messages in the discussions you have been part of. Reddit/Hackernews promotes a very different style of short lived (1/2 days at most discussion). There's just no way a subreddit out t…
In most forums I know the long running threads are mostly the "tell a joke" threads, which collect some off topic posts. Most other discussions are short lived as elsewhere. The main difference to me is that most forums are harder to find, thus more intimate groups where reddit invites others to stumble in.
PhpBB 3.3.10 - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34670280 - Feb 2023 (200 comments)
Ask HN: Why did phpBB forums go out of fashion? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33726098 - Nov 2022 (42 comments)
PhpBB's site hacked - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=461798 - Feb 2009 (8 comments)
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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...
Honestly, at this point I think the post Reddit internet very well could be a return to lots of independent PhpBB powered forums and Discord groups. Unlike when Digg destroyed itself there just really isn’t a single heir apparent.
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…
Forums and social news media are radically different experiences, I'm not understanding why are we even comparing the two. A forum is made of long-lasting discussions, spanning months or years. You login and you see whether there's new messages in the discussions you have been part of. Reddit/Hackernews promotes a very different style of short lived (1/2 days at most discussion). There's just no way a subreddit out t…
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No, classic forums never really offered threaded discussions alike to HN or Reddit. IPB and vBulletin had "threaded" mode where you would see a tree of replies, but it would only display a single reply, requiring you to manually select next reply to see in the UI. In future I plan to track which post the poster clicked "reply" for and have UI to let you see direct replies to given posts, or see that post was made as…
Imagine this thread without threading. It would be 30% of its current value. Reddit, Digg etc became popular partly _because_ of threading.
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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…
This can be a feature rather than a bug. One of the things that I appreciate about forums is that you actually get to build relationships that are more personable than something like Reddit, because there's more commitment involved.
It's an issue with HN, but people generally don't get away with the same kind of nasty stuff on here.
On the other hand I have real world friends that I originally met on forums 15 years ago.