Announcing the BSD Cafe Billboard

Today, we're introducing three things. The first one is a forum. A real forum - with categories, threads, and actual conversations that don't disappear in a timeline after six minutes. The second is a Fediverse platform. Fully federated, ActivityPub-native. Your posts go out, the world's posts come in. No walled gardens, no algorithms, no tricks. The third is a Bar. A place to sit down, talk to strangers who happen to care about the same weird things you do, and stay as long as you […]

https://journal.bsd.cafe/2026/04/02/announcing-the-bsd-cafe-billboard/

@stefano Oh, that is so cool! Really been missing proper forums for a while now. :) Out of curiosity, what kind of software are you using for the board? Discourse, Flarum or something entirely different?
@pepdmin It’s NodeBB
@stefano Oh, very cool! Just heard good things of it!
@stefano Disappointed it's not phpBB.. :D

@stefano hurrah!

Whilst dragging a new tab group into position (alphabetical order), I noticed a forgotten 'BSD' group amongst my archives.

I wonder what's in it …

@stefano a test area would be good (and then move people's test posts away from other areas).

Maybe nested in, or alongside, <https://billboard.bsd.cafe/category/4/comments-feedback>

Thanks

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@grahamperrin That' a good idea. I'll create a test category
Welcome to the Test Area

This is the sandbox. Post, reply, format, break things - nobody will judge you here. Use this category to test federation, try out formatting, see how your F...

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Thanks for the initiative!