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- gkoberger 2y agoWow, I had completely forgotten about this. I spent years of my life writing text like this, and the first large programming project I ever worked on was building my own PHP forum software for fun. It never went anywhere, of course, but I learned a ton.
- johng 2y agoForums are starting to make a bit of a comeback. Google did an algo update a while ago and a lot of forums picked up some traffic. Reddit got a big bump as well.
- red_hare 2y agoSame here. Total blast from the past. Markdown has obviously replaced it. And Reddit has, for better or worse, replaced the phpBB boards of old. But man, I miss this era.
- kiririn 2y agoAll these years later I still can’t remember the Markdown syntax for images and linked text, but BBCode is burned into my brain
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- chgs 2y agoBeen using this for decades. One forum I frequent has just upgraded. I think it uses xenforo, but things like [quote] have worked fine. Some things (quite, spoiler, but strike through too for example) have always been tricky to find in the gui editor, much easier to type square brackets
- krapp 2y agoFor some reason, this is the default for text UI elements in Godot[0]. Not Markdown or even HTML and CSS but this ancient markup format that died with forums ages ago. It probably doesn't matter for 99.9% of use cases, and most games probably just use sprites for UI anyway, but it does make more complex uses like parsing the HTML from HN's API a pain in the ass. [0]https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/bbcode_in_richtextlabel.html https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/tutorials/ui/bbcode_i...