> I don't care if I sound old and salty when I say this: I miss phpBB

I'll one-up this: I miss USENET.

I never understood how anyone could like phpBB, compared to USENET news readers, it was a chaotic mess. But USENET, that was great for discussing things.

Usenet before the Eternal September?

I remember using some forums, and there'd be pages and pages of idiots just replying "Wow, this is great, thanks OP!", or "Thanks from me too!". How the fuck do you think you're contributing rather than polluting?

And nowadays they can even create Github accounts and do this...