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

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?

Hey all, i'm creating a #PHPBB forum to provide an alternative to FB groups for some local groups - i'm binning meta entirely but dont want to lose those groups so figured I'll build a new home :) Anyway, i'm looking for some suggestions for UK based #webhosting that are known to be safe in terms of data etc. Please spam me at will :)

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?

Frage an Leute, die noch #phpBB Forensoftware einsetzen.

Ich bin gerade dabei, ein altes Forum einzustellen und verzweifele daran, die Bilder (alle!) zu sichern. Auf dem Server liegen nur knapp 500 Bilddateien im "Klartext", es müssten aber knapp 3000 sein. Die 500 sind die, welche direkt in Beiträgen gepostet wurden. Die meisten Bilder existieren aber in Galerien und Fotoalben, diese Ordner finde ich aber nicht auf dem Server. Die Bilder wurden aber ohne Ausnahme hochgeladen, keines ist von extern verlinkt. Bei einem privaten Forum mit 30 Usern kann man das machen. Wo kann ich die restlichen Bilder finden oder gibt es vielleicht auch eine Exportfunktion für Medien im Adminpanel, welche ich noch nicht gefunden habe?

Es fing mit einem #Debian Update an und endete mit einem Update aller #phpBB und #Wordpress Installationen.

Hat mich nur 4 Std. gekostet

"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/

Yesterday, for the first time in ages, I met @zerok again. That was fun! #phpBB

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!