by theNewMicrosoft on 6/24/23, 5:14 AM with 6 comments
by sgbeal on 6/24/23, 7:16 AM
While his message is certainly relevant for _most_ forum software, i feel compelled to point out one which enables anyone to clone the whole forum, in full, and sync it at will for local use (with two-way sync if the remote admin enables that (on a per-account basis)).
Though fossil is an SCM/DVCS, one of its features is a built-in forum in active use by both the fossil project and sqlite (https://sqlite.org/forum).
With such a forum, anyone can clone it, host their own copy somewhere (it only requires a low-end HTTP server capable of hosting CGIs), and pull updates from the upstream copy as often as they like. If/when the upstream goes dark, none of the content is lost.
Edit: granted, fossil's forum is intended to be on the scale of one project per form. It is not, and will never be, a multi-project forum like HN, Reddit, or whatever the cool kids are using nowadays.
by barrysteve on 6/24/23, 10:15 AM
Why bother playing by big platform rules? They will never ever adjust course in your favour. They have their own goals and individual contributions are content to be farmed.
I can not post the majority of my views and content without being suppressed, so time to walk.
by midzer on 6/24/23, 5:41 AM
by paulpauper on 6/24/23, 6:00 AM