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Isn’t lemmy basically that, but with modern technology? PHPBB was a nightmare for a sysadmin.
Not quite there yet, but I think Lemmy has the potential to be the best of both. Something you could host without a major company involved, but also attached to a wider community. It isn't getting the critical mass just yet.
Also, yeah, like a lot of PHP apps at the time, phpBB had some boneheaded decisions. Like "plugins" that didn't use any kind of API hooks, and instead relied on patching the code directly.
Lemmy would have to fix federation first, until then it’s just modern forum software.
something is needed to be done to bring lemmy to the wider audience else this will also become one of those niche forum sites with the same 1 or 2k people
not organised well tho
These forums never were well organized.
What was/is wrong with PhpBB?
It's right there in the name: PHP
Seriously though maintaining a PHP server is a security nightmare and you have to be constantly updating if you don't want to be hacked. Just not worth it when there's better options out there
The software was so bad that if you didn't keep up with emergency security fixes for even a week, the forum would instantly be taken over by someone. Being hacked was the natural state of that software.