Re:Ask HN: Is it possible to have forum type community runni...
by steverb on Sunday July 20, 2014 @01:11PM
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The first forum software I wrote way back in 1998 didn't use a db.
Basically I just marked up the html file with some data to tell me where the posts were and then when someone would post a new comment the perl script would just insert it into the html.
Serving the forum was just pulling the html files from the disk.
Basically I just marked up the html file with some data to tell me where the posts were and then when someone would post a new comment the perl script would just insert it into the html.
Serving the forum was just pulling the html files from the disk.