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A comment on Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community?.

Re:Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community? by NVRM on Friday June 01, 2018 @12:51PM (#17207275)
Yep, let forums comes back. They died mostly because phpBB was an absolute mess.
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Re:Ask HN: Why is there no real programming community? by krapp on Saturday June 02, 2018 @05:56PM (#17216610)
>They died mostly because phpBB was an absolute mess

They died mostly because Reddit and Facebook made them obsolete.

They won't come back at least until people stop losing their heads over GDPR compliance, although maybe self-hosted forums will come back with a general push towards strong anonymity.

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