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If you have fond memories of misspending entirely too much of your youth on web-based message boards, or you would like to misspend more of your nights and weekends on them now, Google has you covered. Simply add
inurl:viewtopic.php
to any query, and most, if not all, of your results will be discussion threads on boards running atop phpBB. Similarly, using
inurl:"index.php?topic="
seems to get Simple Machines fora, and
inurl:showthread.php
will unearth vBulletin fora. You can also combine them, like so:
croissant AND (inurl:viewtopic.php OR inurl:showthread.php OR inurl:"index.php?topic=")
Happy holidays, and good hunting.
- davedx 9mo agoThere must be a vbulletin version too!
- FergusArgyll 9mo agoAnd if you do find an old php message board, absolutely do not add ?topic=../../../../etc/passwd
- wheybags 9mo agoMy first php script was a file upload server for a lan party. Luckily nobody tried to upload a file named ../index.php, because I realized afterwards that it would have worked :p
- 6510 9mo agoI've just tried it on mine but nothing fun happened. What is suppose to?
- FergusArgyll 9mo agoGoogle / ask AI Local file inclusion (LFI)
- chistev 9mo agoI posted this 23 days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46100511 I've been enjoying past discussion threads on HN, currently in 2012. Interesting conversations about how Facebook would fail back then, lol, and about how Bitcoin would not be as valuable as it is today. Who would have known? Great site, this.
- stackghost 9mo agoHN is (in)famous for being bad at predicting success or failure, cf. Dropbox. Lots of very intelligent people here but, no offense to anyone, this is the last place I'd come to get product advice.
- thekevan 9mo agoThat's selection bias. Most replies in the post were positive. BrandonM's comment also wasn't that unreasonable in my opinion. Imagine telling someone many years ago that we'd use an app on our phones to get in stranger's car and pay a lot for the privilege as well. His reaction to Dropbox wasn't on point but wasn't tone deaf. Drew from Dropbox responded to the post at the time and BrandonM responded positively, praising the product. It was overall a mature and very fair way of saying it wasn't for him.
- chistev 9mo agoLol. It's not just a HN thing. Humans just suck at predicting the future when that future involves the actions of other humans. Too many variables. If you had read old discussion threads you'd never know Facebook would be the behemoth it is today.
- samyar 9mo agoHn is the place where smart ppl give you feedback. I have benefited in many ways from hn.
- lisbbb 9mo agoExcept most of them are just book smart (if that) and have little real-world experience.
- samyar 9mo agoI think we disagree on a fundamental level. what i have perceived in HN is that most ppl here tries to point out different angles of things. even if you post something totally positive and beneficial there will be someone to point out the weak points and i love it (you can ignore them or not).
- DetectDefect 9mo agoI would love to see an effort to amass these corpora of knowledge into zim files for offline consumption, similar to stackoverflow et al. https://library.kiwix.org https://library.kiwix.org