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PhpBB or vBulletin reincarnations?

• agumonkey 9y ago
  Actually I wouldn't mind, I miss the spirit of these boards. phpbb was hell, but it seems a lot of php things are now based on clean modules (even though a quick googling sheds doubts on the status of phpbb over symfony modules)
  • mantas 9y ago
    Definitely didn't want to give impression that it's somehow worse. A well moderated board is lightyears ahead of a subreddit or, god forbid, FB group. Even half assed categorisation and search awesome. Today's forums could have proper full text search and pimped up moderation tools, possibly with some AI helpers on top.. Just thinking about it makes me drool.
    • agumonkey 9y ago
      I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. I like reddit quite a bit, it has that weird organic value that overcome a lot of weirdness and subpar features. Still old boards were .. much more home like than most of the web 2.0 ever dreamed of.
      • mantas 9y ago
        Not that they're bad. There's definitely a lot of subreddits with a good charm. But they're PITA from information archive point of view. Browsing old threads is much harder than in classic BB. Thus people keep asking same question over and over again even more than in the old days :) Hundreds-of-pages-over-a-decade historical threads don't happen on either of new platforms either :( Which is one of the lovely quirks of the old boards IMO.
        • agumonkey 9y ago
          oh that sure, reddit has no function here on most subreddits, but for non instantaneous chat/help it's very good.
          • mantas 9y ago
            I guess I lurk on different type of classic forums. Most of them focus on generating long-standing content on-the-spot chat is just a byproduct.
            • agumonkey 9y ago
              yeah, per 'site' moderation has still a massive influence over this. /r/askhistorian is very strict about answers, anything that deviates from sourced and on topic will be removed. You can read anything there and have clear concise deep answers even years after. this is something I liked a lot about reddit, there's no micromanagement, it's very organic and free. I'm not always for senseless freedom but in this case I found it to yield interesting things.
      • wott 9y ago
        > I don't know if my interests shield me from bad subreddits but most of the one I glance at are fine, at worst they're just comatose but never toxic. Hmmm, then I guess that's because you don't come often on airfrance any more, for it has not been looking nice in the last months.
        • agumonkey 9y ago
          I get there often, I don't know if it's worse because I didn't read it until recently.