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One thing about these old school forums is they are something you host yourself (directly or paying a server somewhere), and this requires but knowledge on doin
by a1o 3mo ago
One thing about these old school forums is they are something you host yourself (directly or paying a server somewhere), and this requires but knowledge on doing so, and time to do its maintenance (beyond moderation and stuff). Additionally, I don’t think simple machines and phpbb development has kept as strong as the people trying to spam it.
- transcriptase 3mo agophpbb was a nightmare to keep patched (even without any plugins/customization) and free of spam accounts back when forums were in their heyday and spamming wasn’t even that lucrative. 20 years ago a fresh install via cpanel and getting indexed would be enough to have hundreds of accounts being registered just for SEO juice from the homepage URL field in user profile pages. I can only imagine how infinitely worse things must be now.
- Gigachad 3mo agoDiscorse is probably the best forum software these days. It's incredibly nice and works just as well on mobile and desktop.