The WrongPlanet web forum for Autistic people is experiencing daily outages. The performance slows to a crawl. It's a vexation. It's this old #PHPBB-style forum. #actuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

I just launched a new phpBB forum. The rollout was super smooth despite my doing it via git deployment. I feel like I’ve reached a comfortable level with my Nginx configuration skill.

The hardest part was setting up Postfix with Domain Keys and Sender Policy Framework correctly.

Is it genious or lazy that I wrote a Python script that looks at phpBB forum threads based on configuration file and then shows a macos notification alert when there's new posts?

I don't know but now I have one of those running on my machine.

I got nostalgic about old style #phpBB #forum

Would you be willing to join an old school forum centered around computers (software and hardware) in English?

Something I've come to appreciate on the #Fediverse is the distinct lack of scolding about searching for topics before posting about them like we did in ye olden days of #phpbb and the like*.

Obviously some of that is likely due to the nature of #Mastodon (being the largest of Fedi variants) not really being capable of a particularly robust search function until fairly recently.

Now that most Mastodon servers *do* offer much broader searches with ElasticDB and etc., we *still* overall seem to treat each other civilly with regards to such matters.

On the other hand, posts often vanish or are simply not locally present on a given server for a variety reasons, hence tools like #FediFetcher being created to compensate for such issues, so perhaps that has an impact as well.

Regardless of the cause or lack thereof, I'm glad we can post into the void and not really have to deal with "Read the board rules, search before you post or burn in a fire pit of hell!! Don't duplicate topics! Nyaaaaah!!"

If you ask me, this place is really quite magical.

* - yes, I know phpbb still exists. AOL also exists, but I wouldn't say it's a particularly relevant in comparison to the Fediverse

Hello everyone, I'm Mountain, I'm a new Mastodon user. I run a phpBB board for women needing a non-reddit community in these uncertain times (https://twox.prep.gameplayer.club) as well as the r/grimezs subreddit, which has documented the musician Grimes' ties to technofascism in the US. My profile picture is AI generated slop, please don't let that deter you from following this account.

Is there something like Facebook groups in the fediverse yet?
I read from a lot of people that they still need there groups on Facebook.
Is there something which can be closed, so only for certain people?
I'm not talking about something like https://a.gup.pe/
Revival of the good old phpBB boards?

For my White Town band chat, I'm thinking of bunging #phpBB up on my own webspace. At the minute we have a #WhatsApp group but obviously that's yet another Meta product. I think running a lil forum just for the six people in the band will be cool!

Mast Geeks - is this a good or bad idea?

Have you got a better replacement for WhatsApp that isn't #Signal or #Telegram?

"Right now, there's basically no equivalent to phpBB for the fediverse. I think this is likely true in part because everyone's brains broke in the early dotcom era, and we all collectively decided that something wasn't worth doing online unless it could scale up to 10 million users." by @colin https://muffinlabs.com/posts/2024/12/21/12-21-botsin-space-post-mortem/

lol it's no wonder the #phpbb forums are completely dead. I wanted to register to open a feature request for #lemmy support and this is the verification question. Astounding!

It's finally ready! #PMDTalesOfCelestia IS NOW IN OPEN BETA!

Tales of Celestia is a brand-new #PokemonMysteryDungeon #forum #RP! Join the Celestic Guild as they explore the land of Celestia - or go your own path, and found your own Town or Guild! Build out the land by suggesting Mystery Dungeons that will be added to the board.

I've been working on this for the past week nonstop. I hope you enjoy it!

https://www.talesofcelestia.com

Für die Spielregistrierung gibt es unsere Homepage, außerdem haben wir ein #Wiki mit der Spielanleitung und ein Forum (#phpBB) für In-Game-Rollenspiel und als Diskussionsplattform.
Habe ich Euer Interesse geweckt? Dann besucht unsere Seiten unter https://www.fantasya-pbem.de, registriert Euch und meldet eine Spielpartei an. Das Antispam-Passwort für die Registrierung lautet übrigens "Hamilcar". Danke und bis bald! (3/3)