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Roll your own, like early and industrious folks in the 2000s did with PhpBB or Invision, or vBulletin if you had the money to fork out for VB.
by sysadm1n 3y ago
Roll your own, like early and industrious folks in the 2000s did with PhpBB or Invision, or vBulletin if you had the money to fork out for VB.
- nvy 3y agoI know phpbb isn't fashionable these days but if you set it up correctly it can be an amazingly useful tool. I know a guy who uses a private, single-user install of phpbb as his project management software. He's got all the bells and whistles enabled like file uploads, media embeds, and markdown rather than bbcode. One subforum/top-level category per project, and different threads tracking bugs, documentation, etc. Of course since it's phpbb it's available everywhere you have internet, and it's responsive/mobile friendly, etc. Definitely unorthodox considering github projects and redmine exist, but still really neat stuff. If only phpbb had a kanban board.
- EdwardDiego 3y agoI was going to ask how he handles account creation fatigue, but then saw you'd specified single user.
- codetrotter 3y agoI ran phpBB for a while just for myself, partly out of nostalgia for the online forum days. I even used it for password management, because I was the only user, and I was not exposing it directly to the open internet. Instead, I had it listening only on the Wireguard interface of my computer. That way I could connect to it from all my devices anywhere in the world, while no one else could even attempt to reach it. However, because I was keeping those passwords on it I did not want to copy the data to any rented computers. And so I was running it from a computer at home without any redundancy. After a while, the SSD started to malfunction. No fault of phpBB of course. It was an old SSD I had bought several years ago. But because of that I gave up on running phpBB for myself for now. Maybe when I can afford some new, more reliable hardware and a spot in a data center for hardware that I own, I can one day return to running my own private phpBB instance accessible only to me over Wireguard
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agophpBB all the way. It gets the job done, and just about every host supports PHP.
- Gigachad 3y agoHow are shared hosts at all relevant these days? For a few dollars a month you get a full linux VPS that you can install anything on.
- codingdave 3y agoBecause if you go that route then you are saddled with a full linux VPS that you must install things on. For a site that just needs to load some HTML and run scripts, that is overkill. Shared hosting works fine, and requires almost zero actual system administration skills to maintain.
- ShadowBanThis01 3y agoThey're relevant for low-load stuff like a forum. I don't want that on my production server, nor do I want to maintain a second server just for it.
- JuanPosadas 3y ago> For a few dollars a month you get a full linux VPS For a few dollars a year you get a shared host.
- cloudking 3y agohttps://flarum.org/ https://flarum.org/ is a nice modern alternative, also free.
- NetOpWibby 3y agoI haven't seen Flarum in years, looks beautiful.
- ivanmontillam 3y agoAsmBB[0] if you feel bold! -- [0]: https://board.asm32.info/ https://board.asm32.info/
- nextlevelwizard 3y agoYeah, nothing like finding some old dusty phpBB that has been completely over run with bots spamming NSFW stuff. 5/5 much better than Discord. Very industrious.