[HN Gopher] I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
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       I made an early 2000s-inspired internet forum
        
       Author : partly_cloudy
       Score  : 44 points
       Date   : 2023-02-16 21:02 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
 (HTM) web link (basementcommunity.com)
 (TXT) w3m dump (basementcommunity.com)
        
       | t09i209ba893 wrote:
       | Cool, is source available? I didn't see it.
        
       | carabiner wrote:
       | You can still go to these. Genmay.com is still on life support.
        
         | wolrah wrote:
         | As is Something Awful, which OP lists as inspiration. The
         | forums are apparently still self sustaining financially, but I
         | don't believe the user count has moved significantly for around
         | a decade.
         | 
         | It's unfortunate that classic web forums are dying, they're so
         | much more useful as repositories of information than the
         | subreddits, Discords, and Facebook groups that have replaced
         | them over the years.
        
           | carabiner wrote:
           | The main thing is the chronological ordering and lack of
           | karma ordering leads to more freewheeling, breezy
           | conversations. People aren't ego posting as much and are more
           | liberal with speaking their minds, even if their views are
           | unpopular. There are less flamewars, though you also miss out
           | on some deeper discussions. This is also why I like Blind so
           | much, where anonymity has caused it to be the best source of
           | advice on tech careers by a mile. Blunt, harsh advice there
           | has been life-changing.
        
       | glonq wrote:
       | After reddit implodes, I vote that we bring back forums and/or
       | BBS's
        
         | EarlKing wrote:
         | Why wait? AWS and DigitalOcean are dirt cheap. Go set something
         | up and have fun. A number of communities have already forked
         | from Reddit and seem to be doing just fine. As long as you have
         | something interesting to talk about then people will come.
        
       | partly_cloudy wrote:
       | built in remix.run with a Python backend, basementcommunity is a
       | nod to early forums from the early 2000s like something awful and
       | fark, focusing on manual moderation and discussions happen in
       | chronological order
        
         | quadrature wrote:
         | I've been playing around with remix and i come from a python
         | backend. would love to know more about how you mix these two ?.
         | Is the backend essentially just a rest API with a handoff to
         | remix for rendering ?.
        
           | partly_cloudy wrote:
           | yep the Python backend is a standalone rest API and the FE is
           | running on a completely separate server
        
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         | bartread wrote:
         | I like it. Never noticed a forum with a wall of shame before
         | even though I lurked on a few old skool car forums in the
         | mid-2000s.
         | 
         | I _do_ remember a heck of a scrap occurring sometime 2005 /6
         | between 300zx.co.uk and a couple of the other forums of the
         | time. Loads of people banned, even longtime users, site admins,
         | committee members. It was a mess.
        
           | floren wrote:
           | The "wall of shame" on this site comes pretty directly from
           | the Something Awful forums Leper's Colony:
           | https://forums.somethingawful.com/banlist.php
        
             | partly_cloudy wrote:
             | yup
        
         | jay-barronville wrote:
         | Why Remix with a Python backend? Did you need Python for
         | anything specific? Is there some specific need that a pure
         | Remix backend couldn't give you? Just curious.
        
           | partly_cloudy wrote:
           | actually at the time i wrote the API, i was still considering
           | how the FE was going to be written, so because i never used
           | remix until this point, i didn't realize they offered an all-
           | in-one solution.
           | 
           | honestly i like the seperation of concerns though, so i'm
           | happy with it. might even rewrite the API again to teach
           | myself rust
        
       | cecida wrote:
       | Early 2000s message boards were so much fun.
       | 
       | vBulletin, hilariously awful moderation, arguments over signature
       | sizes, cliques, random outages, people who had just got DSL
       | posting images that ruined the experience for posters still on
       | dial-up.
       | 
       | Great times. The internet feels so banal these days.
        
         | edgyquant wrote:
         | >hilariously awful moderation
         | 
         | I don't see how anyone can hold this opinion in the current
         | day. Early 2000s forums made a rule of ensuring things didn't
         | devolve into flame wars. Modern discussion technology
         | incentivized them and turned our society into a giant flame war
        
       | 1970-01-01 wrote:
       | AOL Server is still kickin
       | https://sourceforge.net/projects/aolserver/
        
       | theknocker wrote:
       | [dead]
        
       | nonethewiser wrote:
       | I love it. I was recently nostalgic about phpbb forums. Thought
       | it would be cool to build a site like that.
       | 
       | How is the SEO? Seems like poor SEO (never mind Reddit) was one
       | of the reasons they really fell off the map.
        
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