Twitter now requires an account to view tweets

Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by tourmalinetaco on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:37PM (#36544130)

If anything, nature is healing. I’ve noticed at least 1 community return to forums due to all of this (https://mholdschool.com/), and while unfortunately AFAIK there isn’t any good FLOSS software for it, it’s certainly a start.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by goldenkey on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:44PM (#36544219)

What happened to vBulletin by Jelsoft? Needs to be open sourced.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by rafark on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:04PM (#36544430)

People use xenforo now, which was created by some former developers of vbulletin so it’s very similar.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by goldenkey on Tuesday July 04, 2023 @08:45PM (#36594316)

Will have to check it out, thanks!

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by Jenk on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:01PM (#36544396)

https://www.vbulletin.com/

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by fatfox on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:43PM (#36545852)

Woltlab are still around as well. IIRC Burning Board was vBulletin’s fiercest competitor at the time

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by gbear605 on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:45PM (#36544227)

PhpBB is GPLv2, and it still works just fine. Discourse is also GPL, if you’re looking for a more modern look. There are a number of others too (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_s...)

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by rodolphoarruda on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:48PM (#36544901)

The UI looks the same after all those 20 years.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by gaius_baltar on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:53PM (#36544946)

And this is a feature!

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by agent281 on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:32PM (#36545778)

Literally feel waves of nostalgia looking at that layout. It's perfect!

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by ekianjo on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:05PM (#36545584)

Which means it works?

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by rodolphoarruda on Friday June 30, 2023 @11:00PM (#36545981)

Good question. It seems to be a half empty/full glass situation.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by leereeves on Friday June 30, 2023 @09:45PM (#36545425)

Does PhpBB have an adaptive layout? I've used several older forums that require scrolling sideways because they don't.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by qup on Friday June 30, 2023 @10:25PM (#36545727)

https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2546121

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by zappchance on Friday June 30, 2023 @07:46PM (#36544239)

There's Discourse[0]

[0] https://github.com/discourse/discourse

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by Jenk on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:02PM (#36544417)

Umm..

> Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet

Are you thinking of Discord?

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by jasonmp85 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @06:23PM (#36566437)

I am, thanks. But also Discourse is so terrible that it should be excluded too.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by greggh on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:31PM (#36544697)

Flarum, https://flarum.org

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by animesh on Friday June 30, 2023 @08:37PM (#36544769)

Zig community at reddit was closed recently and they decided to make its discourse instance as the primary discussion center.

https://ziggit.dev/

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by brabel on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:24AM (#36547236)

Discourse is going to pull the same shenanigans as Reddit and Twitter, you can be sure of that. No one is going to host millions of users for free, forever, they'll all come around to get their investment back one day.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by proto_lambda on Saturday July 01, 2023 @02:43AM (#36547372)

What? Discourse is free software, they aren't "hosting millions of users" at all, nevemind for free.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by brabel on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:43AM (#36547747)

Someone is going to have to host users.

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by proto_lambda on Saturday July 01, 2023 @04:49AM (#36548138)

Yes, the respective projects themselves. If you can't trust a project not to fuck over its users, why are you so concerned about the hosting of their discussion platform in particular, rather than just about everything else?

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by chienandalou on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:09AM (#36547540)

Are you thinking of Discord?

https://discord.com vs https://www.discourse.org

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by udev4096 on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:40AM (#36547729)

Think before you speak. Discourse is a self-hostable solution

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by brabel on Saturday July 01, 2023 @03:45AM (#36547759)

Do you think self-hosting means "it's free to host"? Do you understand someone is paying the costs of hosting, and that someone can do whatever the hell they want to recover such costs?

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Re:Twitter now requires an account to view tweets by justcool393 on Sunday July 02, 2023 @05:31AM (#36559827)

usually those costs, for a specific community, are not very high. not sure about discourse specifically, but you can serve thousands of users for relatively cheaply.

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