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<blockquote style="position: relative; padding-left: 55px;"><section><a href="https://mastodon.social/users/danluu/statuses/111062673194099922">Dan Luu (danluu@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 18:14:17 JST</a><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu" title="danluu@mastodon.social"><img src="https://gnusocial.jp/avatar/35339-48-20221122073124.webp" width="48" height="48" alt="Dan Luu" style="position: absolute; left: 0; top: 0;">Dan Luu</a></section><article><p>As a follow-up to <a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109798007902048311" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109798007902048311</a>, I wonder why there isn't a serious, well-funded, attempt to create a modern forum</p><p>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</p><p>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</p></article><footer><a rel="bookmark" href="https://gnusocial.jp/conversation/2058200#notice-4039567">In conversation</a><time datetime="2023-09-14T18:14:17+09:00" title="Thursday, 14-Sep-2023 18:14:17 JST">about a year ago</time> <span>from <span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111062673194099922" rel="external" title="Sent from mastodon.social via ActivityPub">mastodon.social</a></span></span><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu/111062673194099922">permalink</a><h4>Attachments</h4><ol><li><label><a rel="external" href="https://gnusocial.jp/attachment/1518442">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).</a></label><br><a href="https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/062/668/520/262/408/original/c4f61ff3cc9eae6a.png" rel="external">https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/062/668/520/262/408/original/c4f61ff3cc9eae6a.png</a></li><li><article><header><div>Domain not in remote thumbnail source whitelist: files.mastodon.social</div><h5><a href="https://mastodon.social/@danluu/109798007902048311">Dan Luu (@danluu@mastodon.social)</a></h5><div> from <span>Dan Luu</span></div></header><div>Attached: 4 imagesIt's amazing how often, when I look into why something turned to junk (consumer products, tools, etc.), it turns out that it's because a PE firm or a PE-like software company acquired the thing and then made an extremely short-term optimized move that wiped out most of the value and potential revenue of the thing, e.g., I was looking into why a formerly active automotive forum is now a ghost town and it turned out they got bought by VerticalScope, which has apparently killed ~1k forums?</div><footer></footer></article></li></ol></footer></blockquote>

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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
In conversationabout a year ago from mastodon.socialpermalink
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  Attached: 4 images It's amazing how often, when I look into why something turned to junk (consumer products, tools, etc.), it turns out that it's because a PE firm or a PE-like software company acquired the thing and then made an extremely short-term optimized move that wiped out most of the value and potential revenue of the thing, e.g., I was looking into why a formerly active automotive forum is now a ghost town and it turned out they got bought by VerticalScope, which has apparently killed ~1k forums?

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