I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on the Usenet (2020)

Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by flyinghamster on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @10:34AM (#36862866)

I wouldn't say phpBB is dead, its latest release is from February of this year. On the other hand, unless you're already a participant on such a forum, you just might have trouble finding it in today's search hellscape.

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by the_af on Tuesday July 25, 2023 @11:30AM (#36863774)

Maybe it's just my experience. Every phpbb community I was part of moved years away to Facebook, Reddit or (now) Discord. Some of the forums linger on, almost completely deserted by their former users :/

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Re:I've skimmed 66520 newsgroups trying to find some life on... by Johnythree on Wednesday July 26, 2023 @04:47AM (#36874763)

My favorite phpBB forums staggered along for many years but eventually collapsed.

The problem was the original maintainers had long sense expired, and each new phpBB release caused cascading bugs and became unmanageable. That and the increasing cost of running the servers, and the lack of backups and general maintenance.

The loss of these forums was real tragedy. So many thousands of priceless contributions from the original guru's has now been lost forever.

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