Comment on Are Internet boards and Forums dead

anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• frezik@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Not quite there yet, but I think Lemmy has the potential to be the best of both. Something you could host without a major company involved, but also attached to a wider community. It isn’t getting the critical mass just yet.

  Also, yeah, like a lot of PHP apps at the time, phpBB had some boneheaded decisions. Like “plugins” that didn’t use any kind of API hooks, and instead relied on patching the code directly.

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Lemmy would have to fix federation first, until then it’s just modern forum software.

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  • saltynuts420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    something is needed to be done to bring lemmy to the wider audience else this will also become one of those niche forum sites with the same 1 or 2k people

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• Swarfega@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  What was/is wrong with PhpBB?

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  • odbol@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    It’s right there in the name: PHP

    Seriously though maintaining a PHP server is a security nightmare and you have to be constantly updating if you don’t want to be hacked. Just not worth it when there’s better options out there

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The software was so bad that if you didn’t keep up with emergency security fixes for even a week, the forum would instantly be taken over by someone. Being hacked was the natural state of that software.

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• saltynuts420@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  not organised well tho

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  • anlumo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    These forums never were well organized.

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