Show HN: Minimal, no-JS web forum software

Post by deniska » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 7:50 AM UTC

make_me_rich wrote: post #6

tiffanyh wrote: post #2

I commend you for hand rolling it all and not using JS. I miss the days of good ole forum software (e.g. FluxBB/PunBB) before it was superseded with massive JS bloat/clunky forum software like Discourse, Flarum, etc.

Ohh I miss the good old days of forums in general. I find all this new software, where conversions* are "threaded" stupidly hard to read. Even worse, when the software is trying to recommend to you, what to read. Back in the day you had a thread, every post to that thread was chronologically added to that thread and in case you wanted to reply to someone, you quoted them... sigh EDITED: *conversations

Post by stonogo » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:08 AM UTC

nieve wrote: post #124

throwaway81523 wrote: post #108

It's always nice to hear about someone writing a cool program just because they felt like doing so. Every time I think about writing a forum server, I find I return to the thought that Usenet was better, and that if I wanted a web forum, I'd consider putting a web front end on an NNTP server. That would among other things let people keep using NNTP clients (I like gnus.el) if they don't want to use a browser. There a…

Every now and then I'm reminded of what could have been when someone submitted a patch to Dreamwidth (probably easily ported to Livejournal) that provided a bi-directional NNTP gateway that allowed posting. The Dreamwidth devs quite reasonably ended up regretfully rejecting it because there was no-one in the dev community who could maintain it, but sometimes when I'm reading through a community that generates 5000 me…

Post by phendrenad2 » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 9:17 AM UTC

Ralfp wrote: post #43

tiffanyh wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I actually believe vBulletin 3 is where it’s at! Curious, what about vBulletin v4 and v5 do you not like?

Developers of vB 3 left the company and started new forum software named XenForo. They were then sued by Internet Brands (vB owners) for IP theft - IB claimed XenForo was next vBulletin. In court hearings we’ve learned that IB plan for vBulletin development was to fire all but lead dev, and have this lead dev only delegate and review work to outsourced devs in Asia. We’ve also heard that „only developers care about q…

Post by taink » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 10:25 AM UTC

JasonFruit wrote: post #115

MetaWhirledPeas wrote: post #24

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That's just, like, your opinion man. I prefer HN's indented approach to a typical forum listing where it's just a firehose with quotes. But the best approach is to allow the view to be switched as desired.

The problem with letting users choose the view is that the chosen view affects how they write. If I can see it's obvious in my tree view who I'm responding to, I won't point it out, and then someone who uses the firehose view won't be able to follow the conversation.

Post by altilunium » Tue, Oct 11, 2022, 11:44 AM UTC

foofoo4u wrote: post #27

This is great. I want to see more of the web to be like this. Simple, direct, light, and functional. I've came to learn on this thread alone that other projects such as teddit and nitter exist, which capture this same spirit. I'd like to know if other projects for popular sites exist as well. Someone should make an aggregation of sites and open source libraries like https://github.com/Demindiro/agreper that exist.