| ▲ | a1o 4 hours ago | |
One thing about these old school forums is they are something you host yourself (directly or paying a server somewhere), and this requires but knowledge on doing so, and time to do its maintenance (beyond moderation and stuff). Additionally, I don’t think simple machines and phpbb development has kept as strong as the people trying to spam it. | ||
| ▲ | Gigachad 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
Discorse is probably the best forum software these days. It's incredibly nice and works just as well on mobile and desktop. | ||
| ▲ | transcriptase 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
phpbb was a nightmare to keep patched (even without any plugins/customization) and free of spam accounts back when forums were in their heyday and spamming wasn’t even that lucrative. 20 years ago a fresh install via cpanel and getting indexed would be enough to have hundreds of accounts being registered just for SEO juice from the homepage URL field in user profile pages. I can only imagine how infinitely worse things must be now. | ||