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

Para aquell@s que quieran seguir el tema del asteroide como tantos otros, con otra parsimónica, más pausadamente, etc. Los invito a registrarse en el Foro Undernet, espacio donde compartimos publicaciones más extendidas, duraderas, que no se pierdan en la vorágine del scroll y la volatilidad del momento. Eso si, la cantidad de spam es tan terrible que prácticamente autorizamos las cuentas si nos avisan por algún lado. Los que quieran, se pueden registrar, aportar sus temas, historias, recetas, etc. Y nos avisan a mi o a @gabriel por privado con que usuario se registran para que lo aprobemos. Acá está la entrada --> https://foro.undernet.uy/viewtopic.php?t=12 #foro #phpbb #2024yr4 #astronomía #ciencia

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?

As someone who grew up on phpBB, it makes me happy to report that forums are still alive and kicking!

https://ergaster.org/til/forums-not-dead/

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/

Somehow, I feel like I shouldn't have to spend hours adding debugging code in order to figure out that the reason a site isn't loading is because it's unable to create a file because the disk-quota has been exceeded.

If it had even told me that it was having trouble creating a file, that would have been helpful -- but no, just blank screen. #phpbb #softwareGripe

Between this and recent events, I've decided that disk-quotas are a daft/capitalistic way of managing a resource that really should be treated more like a commons, and I'm not going to use them on my web servers anymore. It would have saved me many hours if I had never set a quota-limit in the first place.

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!

Been playing around with #phpBB templating for a #CommanderX16 inspired theme. Yeah, throwing all proSilver code and compatibility to the trash bin, everything rethought from scratch.

- Only site header and footer in the screenshots
- Nothing hidden in dropdowns
- Keeping only the most relevant stuff at top
- Custom drawn logo SVG
- Reworked the "Pet Me" fonts so that I could convert them to webfonts (no permission asked yet)

I don't know if I ever finish this work, but have had some fun.

Ce matin... deux BOT de scrapping pour alimenter des modèles d'IA/#LLM ont abusé du forum d'@osm_fr

C'est pas la première fois et ça devient vraiment une plaie, surtout quand #ClaudeBot requête les URL de notre ancien #phpBB, remplacé il y a plusieurs années par #discourse

Malgrès plus de 130 000 erreurs 404 rien que ce matin, il continuait à un rythme effréné...

Autre bot albert-bot... de albertai.com (rien avoir avec l'Albert cocorico), bloqué lui aussi.

Bueno, tenemos el agrado de presentarles el Foro Undernet, una nueva vieja plataforma, como lo es phpBB, un foro estilo Bulletin Board, cuya finalidad es plasmar algunas discusiones, reflexiones, intercambios, en este formato que no es tan efímero y se lo lleva el viento, como lo puede ser un muro de una red social como Mastodon o tantas otras. Este formato probó su utilidad hace más de 20 años así que siempre es útil tenerlo cerca. La página es --> http://foro.undernet.uy/ Los que quieran, se pueden registrar (la aprobación es manual). Están invitados si quieren probarlo. #bbs #phpbb #undernet #uruguay #mastodon #foro

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