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If anything, nature is healing. I’ve noticed at least 1 community return to forums due to all of this (https://mholdschool.com/ https://mholdschool.com/), and w
by tourmalinetaco 3y ago
If anything, nature is healing. I’ve noticed at least 1 community return to forums due to all of this (https://mholdschool.com/ https://mholdschool.com/), and while unfortunately AFAIK there isn’t any good FLOSS software for it, it’s certainly a start.
- goldenkey 3y agoWhat happened to vBulletin by Jelsoft? Needs to be open sourced.
- Jenk 3y agohttps://www.vbulletin.com/ https://www.vbulletin.com/
- rafark 3y agoPeople use xenforo now, which was created by some former developers of vbulletin so it’s very similar.
- goldenkey 3y agoWill have to check it out, thanks!
- fatfox 3y agoWoltlab are still around as well. IIRC Burning Board was vBulletin’s fiercest competitor at the time
- gbear605 3y agoPhpBB is GPLv2, and it still works just fine. Discourse is also GPL, if you’re looking for a more modern look. There are a number of others too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...)
- rodolphoarruda 3y agoThe UI looks the same after all those 20 years.
- gaius_baltar 3y agoAnd this is a feature!
- agent281 3y agoLiterally feel waves of nostalgia looking at that layout. It's perfect!
- ekianjo 3y agoWhich means it works?
- rodolphoarruda 3y agoGood question. It seems to be a half empty/full glass situation.
- leereeves 3y agoDoes PhpBB have an adaptive layout? I've used several older forums that require scrolling sideways because they don't.
- qup 3y agohttps://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2546121 https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2546121
- zappchance 3y agoThere's Discourse[0] [0] https://github.com/discourse/discourse https://github.com/discourse/discourse
- greggh 3y agoFlarum, https://flarum.org https://flarum.org
- animesh 3y agoZig community at reddit was closed recently and they decided to make its discourse instance as the primary discussion center. https://ziggit.dev/ https://ziggit.dev/
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- brabel 3y agoDiscourse is going to pull the same shenanigans as Reddit and Twitter, you can be sure of that. No one is going to host millions of users for free, forever, they'll all come around to get their investment back one day.
- proto_lambda 3y agoWhat? Discourse is free software, they aren't "hosting millions of users" at all, nevemind for free.
- brabel 3y agoSomeone is going to have to host users.
- proto_lambda 3y agoYes, the respective projects themselves. If you can't trust a project not to fuck over its users, why are you so concerned about the hosting of their discussion platform in particular, rather than just about everything else?
- chienandalou 3y agoAre you thinking of Discord? https://discord.com https://discord.com vs https://www.discourse.org https://www.discourse.org
- udev4096 3y agoThink before you speak. Discourse is a self-hostable solution