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Ah, the vive of people on the Internet talking for over a decade on an old phpBB forum thread... A bit off topic, but I really think the existing forum sites a

Ah, the vive of people on the Internet talking for over a decade on an old phpBB forum thread... A bit off topic, but I really think the existing forum sites aren't really that incompatible with "younger" people, and might have a renaissance later on (looking at how they are using Discord in a similar manner!) It's just that these old forum sites have lots of UI clunkiness that deter people from browsing or joining the site (older people who kind up grew up with phpBB might be accustomed to these sorts of jank, but you shouldn't expect someone who weren't in that era to be accustomed to it.)

VBprogrammer 4y ago
I still use a couple of them for niche interests. The one thing that annoys me is that they still make uploading photos a chore. Usually you have to resize the image your self to get under some pathetic size limit. It's enough that people tend towards text when a picture or a drawing would be much better.
- betwixthewires 4y ago
  When you're a guy running a long lived online community on a $100 a year VPS you avoid storing media as mush as possible. There's a reason photo bucket sites used to be so popular.
  - OJFord 4y ago
    Making it not 'a chore' though could mean a nice frontend to upload to some such photobucket site and embed the result. Then you also avoid the annoying 'you must create an account to view attachments'.
    - bombcar 4y ago
      Some of the forums have features to do that on upload - you just have to configure it. Sadly most of the admins for these type of fora are just learning as they go.