phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
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phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
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phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
@babe oh wow
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@babe oh wow
@babe lol ok it doesn’t seem to have evolved since phpbb3. I remember when it released, it was cute x)
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
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phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
@babe I hosted a phpBB forum for years, and it remained up and running for years after I forgot the admin password to the server it was running on. Legendary.
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe RETVRN
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe This is still my big unpopular take: if you demand all the latest features, then they have you.
We've gotta settle for independent and slightly rough around the edges, like fedi. Only 4 pictures at a time! Its a little inconsistent across platforms, ok?!
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
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phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
@babe cortex implant instance admin is actually hosting these, and we're using them, and it's great ! Also i'm building a roller derby club, and i'm gonna use a forum and xmpp as com tools !
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@babe This is still my big unpopular take: if you demand all the latest features, then they have you.
We've gotta settle for independent and slightly rough around the edges, like fedi. Only 4 pictures at a time! Its a little inconsistent across platforms, ok?!
@unlofl I like the rough around the edges.
Some stuff I'm involved with is janky as hell and hasn't changed much in over 20 years, but it's part of its charm -
Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe
I still actively use a couple of surviving forums. Niche stuff, but alive and well, with 20 some years of post history. Then again, I never joined Facebook, so I guess I'm the weirdo. -
Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe This is the way.
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe bring back AIM
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@unlofl I like the rough around the edges.
Some stuff I'm involved with is janky as hell and hasn't changed much in over 20 years, but it's part of its charm@babe I still use vim every day! Some of the oldies are the goodies!
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe Bring back CoSy

(Which actually never went away.)
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phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
@babe For when WordPress just doesn’t have enough remote code exploits for your liking!
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Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe I maintained one back then. Was fun!
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@teajaygrey @babe this article was written in 2012, there’s been a ton of improvements to PHP since then

Edit: after semi-skimming the article, the majority of complaints seem to be “PHP works differently than x language”… well yes, it’s a different language.
I am confused by all the references to “(int) is not a class”? Why would it be? It’s a primitive. -
Forums and IRC.
Do it.
Bring back the early 00s.
@babe Even if I'm still not 100% on pivoting to IRC, forums desperately need to be more of a thing.
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phpbb is still right there https://www.phpbb.com/
@babe I tried to convince a group leaving Facebook to just start a phpbb or other forum. They said it looked too old and people wouldn’t know what to do; so they moved to discord without me.
I hear they are struggling to figure out what to do now.