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I couldn’t imagine releasing a forum for the hn community that wasn’t also a neat software project. Using phpbb seems like the antithesis of something this comm
by code_duck 8y ago
I couldn’t imagine releasing a forum for the hn community that wasn’t also a neat software project. Using phpbb seems like the antithesis of something this community would appreciate, other than perhaps for the practicality of choosing something common.
- dchuk 8y agoThat was kinda the point of this whole thing though. This wasn't a software project for me, this was a community project. I have no interest in developing a forum, but I do have interest in participating in one. From what I can tell so far, what we setup seems to be working fine. If we hit a wall, I'll search out the next most practical option.
- code_duck 8y agoThat makes sense as administrating a forum takes a significant investment of time, and you don’t necessarily have enough time to run a forum and also develop the software. However, if it became popular, I would expect some of us would want to hack on the software... but who would want to work on a phpbb theme? I’d pretty much rather be using a Google + group.
- krapp 8y agoI've seen enough custom forums appear here only to die out to know that building the software and building a community are two completely different things and that one shouldn't expect that they will come if you build it. I can see the temptation to want to hack around on it because it's a forum for hackers, but it's not as if HN is taking pull requests either.