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would there be an audience for such software? I believe it will be hard to get audience from most existing forums, as I see most phpbb, invision, etc. aren't r

by zalew 16y ago

would there be an audience for such software? I believe it will be hard to get audience from most existing forums, as I see most phpbb, invision, etc. aren't rushing to move f.ex. to vanilla. Most of this software is outdated and bloated, yet they have a huge ecosystem (extensions, tutorials) and userbase used to their functionality. Such product should at least provide an easy convertion schema and default themes similar to existing competition's defaults. Still it would take very long until it gained a reasonable market share IMO. If you're looking just for new market, it could succeed. I'd see sth like that as extensions to existing platforms, yet I believe it wouldn't be fun to code that :)

Skywing 16y ago
"I'd see sth like that as extensions to existing platforms, yet I believe it wouldn't be fun to code that :)" Agreed. :P I don't see why people couldn't theme a forum like this, too. Perhaps also some sort of data migration tool. Forums just kind of need a revamping!
- zalew 16y ago
  > Forums just kind of need a revamping! That's absolutely true, I was happy after punbb appeared and later vanilla, but I know how hard it's to make even simple updates when you have a big community. I help run a 7yr old huge automotive forum and even a phpbb2->3 upgrade caused riots, I have no idea what happens when someone would switch a huge community from bb or invision to an exotic platform :)
  - Skywing 16y ago
    Perhaps we can find out.
    - zalew 16y ago
      "Challenge accepted"? :) If i was to reinvent the forum, besides RT I'd include/change such features by default: - simple wysiwyg B, I, U, Quote - stop all this bbcode nonsense - js oembed or similar (automatic embedding images, videos, etc. from links) - scaling too big images - easy partial quoting - marking posts/threads as favorite/follow - openid/fb - mobile version (what currently tapatalk does) probably some more I can't remember right now.

by zalew 16y ago

Skywing 16y ago

"I'd see sth like that as extensions to existing platforms, yet I believe it wouldn't be fun to code that :)" Agreed. :P I don't see why people couldn't theme a forum like this, too. Perhaps also some sort of data migration tool. Forums just kind of need a revamping!

zalew 16y ago
> Forums just kind of need a revamping! That's absolutely true, I was happy after punbb appeared and later vanilla, but I know how hard it's to make even simple updates when you have a big community. I help run a 7yr old huge automotive forum and even a phpbb2->3 upgrade caused riots, I have no idea what happens when someone would switch a huge community from bb or invision to an exotic platform :)
- Skywing 16y ago
  Perhaps we can find out.
  - zalew 16y ago
    "Challenge accepted"? :) If i was to reinvent the forum, besides RT I'd include/change such features by default: - simple wysiwyg B, I, U, Quote - stop all this bbcode nonsense - js oembed or similar (automatic embedding images, videos, etc. from links) - scaling too big images - easy partial quoting - marking posts/threads as favorite/follow - openid/fb - mobile version (what currently tapatalk does) probably some more I can't remember right now.