Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord

Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by networked on Thursday March 06, 2025 @08:50AM (#43280155)

This shows Discord is a genuine successor to Web 1.0 forums. :-)

Unnecessary channels are unnecessary subforums. User roles are user ranks (https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3.1/kb/article/everyth...), indicating both software permissions and social status. T&C—well, forum engines like phpBB, MyBB, and SMF come with a standard user agreement they show before registration. There is more concern with it now because the Internet is real life.

As for training an entire generation of bureaucrats and bean-counters, I leave it to the reader to judge.

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Re:Revolt: Open-Source Alternative to Discord by pestaa on Thursday March 06, 2025 @01:17PM (#43283280)

I like this take. There was something unique how each bulletin board was customized to the administrator's taste.

And it was up to them to provide plenty onboarding to new users, so they're not overwhelmed by the hundreds of subcategories, and thousands of threads in each.

We used to be part of no more than a handful of forum communities. Maybe that changed.

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