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This is just like the majority of communities moving to Discord over Forums. The barrier to entry might be a lot lower than getting a VPS and hosting phpBB or w
by justsid 2y ago
This is just like the majority of communities moving to Discord over Forums. The barrier to entry might be a lot lower than getting a VPS and hosting phpBB or whatever, but the discoverability and searchabilty has gone towards 0. Everything is just moving into opaque black boxes.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoI never understood the move to Discord. Maybe I should host a PhpBB and bring some sanity back.
- weebull 2y ago> phpBB Whoa there Nelly! If we're going to resurrect things, can we do it whilst leaving PHP in the past?
- ribadeo 2y ago[dead]
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 2y agoPHP hasn't failed me yet. Been using if for about 20 years. Not heavily but it gets the job done and it's still improving. It's really quite sane if you start comparing it to the alternatives. It continues to 'just work'
- disqard 2y agoYour comment sparked a thought -- maybe this is the "Dark Forest" of the Web: Either your site's content stays hidden behind discord, or an LLM's bot/minion scrapes all your content and makes visiting your site superfluous, thereby effectively killing your site.
- networked 2y agoThis is an interesting thought because there is probably a real dynamic like this with some kinds of content, but as an HN comment it is also somewhat self-refuting.
- spiderfarmer 2y agoLess competition for me