Discourse is a good modern alternative.
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#12I was very into deploying and modding PhpBB when I was in middle school. I learned PHP because of it (though I didn't build any substantial mods) and how to work with RDBMSes, Unix filesystems, HTML, etc. The sites that I built never engendered much community interaction though.
I was never a fan of Reddit and find traditional forums much easier to navigate. I also think that the slight friction involved in creating a separate account for these sites instead of re-using the same one across multiple lends itself better to building tight-knit communities. I hope that these systems make a comeback.
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#13Discourse is a good modern alternative.
This. NodeBB made me switch to Discourse, because it was a nightmare to update and backup.
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#14I don’t like the flat style comments of sites like PhpBB.
Is there an equivalent open source solution that does reddit style hierarchical comments?
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#15I was very into deploying and modding PhpBB when I was in middle school. I learned PHP because of it (though I didn't build any substantial mods) and how to work with RDBMSes, Unix filesystems, HTML, etc. The sites that I built never engendered much community interaction though. I was never a fan of Reddit and find traditional forums much easier to navigate. I also think that the slight friction involved in creating…
I liked the modding but I preferred Invision Power Board, at the time it looked really nice out of the box and had a lot of good features.
PunBB was really nice too, was really clean looking both in the UI and the backend code.
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#16I was very into deploying and modding PhpBB when I was in middle school. I learned PHP because of it (though I didn't build any substantial mods) and how to work with RDBMSes, Unix filesystems, HTML, etc. The sites that I built never engendered much community interaction though. I was never a fan of Reddit and find traditional forums much easier to navigate. I also think that the slight friction involved in creating…
Reddit is easier to read (comment threading) and is text only, which is its unique value proposition. PhpBB forum, which I ironically use way more than Reddit these days, have almost no threading and limits to 10 posts per page with no hiding posts unless block all user posts, and ad banners everywhere.
But I welcome any return to self-hosting, even though most site require membership until a user can view full scale images.
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#17I was very into deploying and modding PhpBB when I was in middle school. I learned PHP because of it (though I didn't build any substantial mods) and how to work with RDBMSes, Unix filesystems, HTML, etc. The sites that I built never engendered much community interaction though. I was never a fan of Reddit and find traditional forums much easier to navigate. I also think that the slight friction involved in creating…
Reddit is easier to read (comment threading) and is text only, which is its unique value proposition. PhpBB forum, which I ironically use way more than Reddit these days, have almost no threading and limits to 10 posts per page with no hiding posts unless block all user posts, and ad banners everywhere. But I welcome any return to self-hosting, even though most site require membership until a user can view full scale…
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.
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#18Such an amazing tool. So much value this single free and open source has given the world. Much more than many vc backed startups combined.
We need to get back to people building software instead of vc backed companies building software. I think the last decade has shown us that that is a failed experiment.
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#19Related: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB a Fediverse frontend based on phpBB. Example instance on fedibb.ml
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#20Discourse is a good modern alternative.
You know, I actually actively dislike Discourse's UX. I've always found there to be a cognitive load to usage that I never found with PhpBB, other older forum software, or Reddit.
I think my issue with it has to do with too clean of a UI, not enough visual hierarchy, delineation between post replies, etc.