Cy Wolf
Leigh HoneywellI think we can all agree that if Reddit’s recent bullshit ends up meaning people go back to running old school forums it’ll be the absolute funniest possible outcome
wb x64@leigh people were talking about going back to Digg and Fark, it was pretty amusing
Ben Ramsey
Half Cocked Law
random thoughts
Cipher Menial
ann hedonia 
@leigh but what will we append to google searches to try to get useful results? 🙃
Tam
Eaton
is still alive and well! 
Erotic Mythology 🌹@AimeeMaroux @leigh @eaton Ah, yes. I wasn’t thinking about notifications. I guess you would need a dedicated app with push notification functionality for that.
@AimeeMaroux @leigh @eaton This looks promising. It’s not free, but the pricing looks reasonable. The board owners would need to install it, though. https://phpbb.pro/pushnotifications
@AimeeMaroux @leigh @eaton That’s what it looks like. It appears to use the built-in browser notifications system (on both desktop and mobile). I’ve never seen notifications from a mobile browser, though, so I’m not sure how well it works.
@ramsey @leigh @eaton I just tested it. I can enable it on desktop but it doesn't work for me on mobile. Might be my browser or settings but the option to enable browser notifications just doesn't show up at all, not even in desktop mode.
@AimeeMaroux @leigh @eaton It looks like the Push API is disabled by default in mobile Safari, if that’s what you’re using. Here’s how to turn it on: https://www.xda-developers.com/how-enable-safari-notifications-iphone/
Gaëtan Perrault
Tech Support 
@gatesvp @eaton @leigh I used to run a few small instances of phpBB, including one heavily modified to be a semi-public KnowledgeBase/communications tool, it was absurdly flexible and easy to modify.
I think better moderation tools and solid oath identify management would have made it a solid contender for these massive services.
Jargoggles
Wendy Lady@NerdRage42 @eaton a classic way forums end!!
Michal Bryxí 🌱
Andy@leigh I look forward to PHP compromises being a thing again.
@pierogipowered @leigh What are PHP compromises?
@ramsey @leigh The timeline seems about right, it must have been https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PhpBB that was constantly getting compromised back in the day.
@pierogipowered @leigh Ah. Yeah. When you have a very popular application, people will find holes in it. It’s still around, and the devs have worked hard to harden and improve it.
@pierogipowered @leigh The project that I remember getting compromised a lot was PHP-Nuke because several of my own sites got compromised in around 2003-04. 🤣 https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PHP-Nuke
Michele Titolo@leigh that would be amazing
Dae bow bow@leigh I'll have to dust off my old Web Rings 💍💍💍
Mx. Luna Corbden 🐸@leigh @CosmicTraveler This would be cool if web search engines still worked.
Chris Espinosa@leigh only if we can bring back dialup along with them
Bruce Heerssen 
@Cdespinosa Somebody should make a BBS look alike for ActivityPub.
Aria 
@leigh I'm already starting to naturally do that. Earlier today I was trying to find some information about Project Zomboid and ended up on the game devs' official forums.
(Unfortunately I did not find the information I was looking for, but I had forgotten such things even could exist.)
Patrick Sanders@leigh I cut my proverbial teeth on vBulletin and phpBB. This is my time to shine.
Insecurity Princess 🌈💖🔥@patricksanders @leigh just don't bite off more than you can chew
Rob Mathers@leigh can we get something better than phpBB?
Blake Leonard@robmathers @leigh There's Discourse, which is at least somewhat nicer to use in my experience.
John Birmingham@leigh @luciedigitalni alt.Usenet.ftw
Colin M@leigh I don’t know, if it goes back to a combination of specifically Wordpress and PHPBB2, I don’t think I’ll ever stop laughing
Charles Buckley@leigh USENET is looking better every day
John Harris@charles_buckley @leigh The biggest problem with Usenet is it got overwhelmed with spam. If something were done about that, it could become viable for communication again.
Third spruce tree on the left@rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh The only way to crack that problem (spam on USENET) would be to implement newsgroup moderation. Which IS a thing I'm surprised to find out - the protocol and software supports it.
I guess by the time I phased out of newsgroup usage (mid 00s? it was hard to find a free news server) I had never participated in one.
@rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh My vote would be to piggyback newsgroup traffic and proper reply threading on top of ActivityPub. I mean, conceptually, Lemmy/kbin mags/comms are no different from a newsgroup.
Imagine following alt.tv.babylon5 *as a hashtag*.
vga256@tezoatlipoca @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh 🤞 someone bring back Forté Free Agent kbin edition and i'm in
@vga256 @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh Holy shit Forte Free Agent was a good piece of software. They don't write em like they used to. Forte just *worked*.
@tezoatlipoca @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh 😅 i sure got a lot of mileage out of that program back in the day.
Zorin =^o.o^=@vga256 @tezoatlipoca @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh Agent was SOLID. One of the better Windows 3.1 applications I used at the time.
I like sharing my Windows 3.1 desktop from that time whenever topics like this come up. You can see the Internet stuff on the bottom left. It was brand new to me at the time!
shinypb@zorinlynx @vga256 @tezoatlipoca @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh I love this screenshot so much; thank you for sharing it. Just curious, how did ”Lock the PC with bios PW” work?
Gorgeous na Shock!@vga256 @tezoatlipoca @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh One of my long-term project ideas was a Reddit-to-NNTP bridge (that got X'ed off the list recently for obvious reasons)... I was wondering how Fediverse-to-NNTP would work, so that's probably a good entrypoint...
Lawrence Miller@tezoatlipoca @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh I was the first one on rec.arts.sf.tv.b5 to make the "the first one sank into the swamp" joke
@ldpm @rodneylives @charles_buckley @leigh Whoa - the dark magics, you were there when it was written.
Annalee Newitz 🍜@leigh if we brought back the animated gif, we can do anything
Jeffrey Vagle
solipsistnation