Screenshot of table from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Internet_forum_software. Except for Discourse and Syndie, every piece of software was written in PHP or Perl (Syndie is Java and Discourse is Ruby).

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   Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 18:14:17 JST Dan Luu

   As a follow-up to https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109798007902048311, I wonder why there isn't a serious, well-funded, attempt to create a modern forum

   If you look at Wikipedia's list of forum software, it's all ancient except discourse, and discourse seems unlikely to ever be something great for users

   Its performance is famously terrible. People often point out how unusable it is unless you have a fast phone and the founder's response to this has been to rant about how Qualcomm sucks and need to make faster processors