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Are Internet boards and Forums dead (lemm.ee)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by saltynuts420@lemm.ee to c/technology@lemmy.world

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i started using the internet in the late 2000's and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post ... now its just random websites ... if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site:reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter are not crawlable by these search crawlers they are not mentioned . Where did all those forums went...are there still active forums ?

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[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 27 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Isn’t lemmy basically that, but with modern technology? PHPBB was a nightmare for a sysadmin.

[–] frezik@midwest.social 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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.

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

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

[–] saltynuts420@lemm.ee 1 points 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

[–] saltynuts420@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

not organised well tho

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

These forums never were well organized.

[–] Swarfega@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

What was/is wrong with PhpBB?

[–] odbol@lemmy.world 2 points 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

[–] anlumo@lemmy.world 1 points 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.