PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by neustradamus » Sun, Feb 05, 2023, 10:21 PM UTC

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

#2

Post by mostlysimilar » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 12:57 AM UTC

Forum software of phpBB's era got so many things right that we get wrong today. I'm glad it's still chugging along. It's valuable software, even if that value is contained to small islands outside of the continents that are the mega-platforms of social media.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by nigamanth » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:02 AM UTC

This goes on to prove that PHP is still relevant today. No matter how many new frameworks come up, we all know PHP anyways.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by user3939382 » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:07 AM UTC

mostlysimilar wrote: post #2

Forum software of phpBB's era got so many things right that we get wrong today. I'm glad it's still chugging along. It's valuable software, even if that value is contained to small islands outside of the continents that are the mega-platforms of social media.

We didn’t know at the time we were in a golden age of federation that would soon be evaporating. Discoverability may have been less than say a subreddit, but the mods were in practically 100% control of the rules.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by elashri » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:09 AM UTC

nigamanth wrote: post #3

This goes on to prove that PHP is still relevant today. No matter how many new frameworks come up, we all know PHP anyways.

I think this applies mainly because of WordPress, not PhpBB and any other project.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by ChrisMarshallNY » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:17 AM UTC

I'm surprised it's still around. They did a good job on the software, but discussion forums seemed to go belly-up, after Facebook took off (MySpace, too, I guess).

Maybe they will make a comeback?

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by hunter2_ » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:18 AM UTC

elashri wrote: post #5

nigamanth wrote: post #3

This goes on to prove that PHP is still relevant today. No matter how many new frameworks come up, we all know PHP anyways.

I think this applies mainly because of WordPress, not PhpBB and any other project.

Drupal is up there, maybe not as a household name like WordPress, but in some big organizations.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by derefr » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:29 AM UTC

ChrisMarshallNY wrote: post #6

I'm surprised it's still around. They did a good job on the software, but discussion forums seemed to go belly-up, after Facebook took off (MySpace, too, I guess). Maybe they will make a comeback?

phpBB deployments are still popular, among other places, on Tor hidden sites, because the Tor Browser disables client-side Javascript, and phpBB was written before Javascript was something you could architect a whole application around, so any JS functionality in phpBB is just optional graceful enhancement.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by lolinder » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:30 AM UTC

Every time I see hype about Mastodon and the fediverse I miss the phpBB days. There was something special about the interlocking network of forums that didn't need to "federate" in any formal capacity. We just joined communities we liked and formed overlapping networks like normal people do and always have done. No one at the time felt any need to try to accommodate the whole world in one venue.

As someone who never understood the appeal of Twitter or Facebook, the new wave of FOSS social apps feels very alien to me.

Re: PhpBB 3.3.10

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Post by chippiewill » Mon, Feb 06, 2023, 1:34 AM UTC

hunter2_ wrote: post #7

elashri wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think this applies mainly because of WordPress, not PhpBB and any other project.

Drupal is up there, maybe not as a household name like WordPress, but in some big organizations.

Drupal's been on the heavy decline over the past 10 years. Drupal 8/9/10 might turn it around now that Drupal 7 is set to officially retire eventually but it's not had the staying power in the way Wordpress has.

Drupal doesn't really seem to have an ecosystem left anymore.