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I have seen a bit of a resurgence in your classic 2005-era type interface php bulletin board in a browser, as people relegate their facebook/instagram/whatever
by walrus01 1mo ago
I have seen a bit of a resurgence in your classic 2005-era type interface php bulletin board in a browser, as people relegate their facebook/instagram/whatever accounts to only keeping up with family stuff posted by boomers who won't use anything else, or things like niche neighborhood based buy & sell groups (or community notice groups in like a town of 12,000).
I guess there's at least 3 or more active and currently developed software packages with open source licenses, the flaskbb that site uses, simplemachinesforum, the classic phpbb, probably some others I've forgotten about... The LAMP stack dependencies for all seem very mundane and very lightweight.
- ErroneousBosh 1mo agoThis runs on FlaskBB because I prefer Python to PHP. I'd love to write a backend for it to expose the forum as NNTP ;-)
- walrus01 1mo agoI recently had reason to implement something using xterm.js and node-pty for a CLI environment in a browser, so I think that it would be possible to re-implement actual IRC live chat inside a html/html5/TLS1.3 session in a browser tab too.