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Reinald Kirchner

@esther I can recall times, when every site had it's own phpBB script running, and a local community. Very specialized communities, with sometimes very high competencies (like engineering in specific branches). Facebook groups and successors rarely got that quality.
Maybe that is coming back again?

4 Jul 2023 at 10:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on nrw.social
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F. Maury ⏚

@Reinald @esther And before that, the newsgroups with even more specialized and talented people :)

4 Jul 2023 at 12:09 | Open on infosec.exchange
cronomorfo

@Reinald

@esther
I would really like to see true inheritors to 90's and 00's forums. But I think this is an age of prepackaged solutions and managing and modding forum-like stuff is too hard.

Probably Discord will become bigger and that will be the end of it.

4 Jul 2023 at 13:57 | Open on mastodon.cloud
Bo Stahlbrandt

@Reinald @esther some of them never disappeared and are active and successful since eg +20 years. Often super-niche. It is all about the people that are creating and sustaining their #community. Platforms and underlying tech is only part of it.

4 Jul 2023 at 14:27 | Open on infosec.exchange
Reinald Kirchner

@stahlbrandt @esther I recall a lot of them dying when the used script package phpBB was dying and vulnerable and a spam-target. Most migrations basically failed, since amateur admins had not enough time and knowledge to do it properly.

Nice to hear that some of those communities survived nevertheless.

4 Jul 2023 at 15:29 | Open on nrw.social
Bo Stahlbrandt

@Reinald @esther right, spamming was definitely an issue for many. Time spent to operate and maintain a #community platform should definitely not be underestimated. Here is a big, fundamental issue hidden: Most members are not willing to pay for using it, leaving the operation very vulnerable and often forced to use whatever packages they can find without having the resources required to keep its #IT and dev aspects professional “enough”. In old times, some could live on ad revenue. That is very likely no longer possible for a large majority.

@Reinald @esther right, spamming was definitely an issue for many. Time spent to operate and maintain a #community platform should definitely not be underestimated. Here is a big, fundamental issue hidden: Most members are not willing to pay for using it, leaving the operation very vulnerable and often forced to use whatever packages they can find without having the resources required to keep its #IT and dev aspects professional “enough”. In old times, some could live on ad revenue. That is very...

4 Jul 2023 at 15:37 | Open on infosec.exchange
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