aquovieMar 17

Old fashioned forums are old fashioned. Circular logic but there’s a lot holding them back.

  • Create a new account for every single niche forum? No thanks. We need a federated solution.
    • Lemmy/Piefed/etc is almost there
  • Antiquated restrictions (e.g. Log in to view images)
  • Antiquated UI - People want emojis, reactions, rich media, etc
  • PHP paid the bills once upon a time but now it’s hard to get anyone excited to make big new features for forum software
Show threadgdog05Mar 17
You’ve got some points but I would argue that antiquated UI will be what saves the Internet. Keeping out bots and AI scrapers with good old fashioned phpBBS systems that have been around for twenty years will be our clean data as we build systems outside of AI and the techbro properties.
Show threadother_cat
I’ve also always liked how old school forums are structured. Nice, neat categories and most active/recent stuff on top.
Mar 17 at 7:52pmWeb