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Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them? (tedium.co)
submitted 4 days ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1234765/bring-back-crappy-forums-web-forums-were-rough-around-the-edges-and-faded-in-relevance-a

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[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which platform, please?

[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Discourse. Plenty of plugins and customisation to play about with. Self hosted, too.

Can check it out at discourse.gamerstavern.online if you like.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Thanks but no. I use it on another forum but it is rather fussy about which browser you use.

[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

...is it? Even on PWA? I've used Vivaldi, Safari, Zen and Firefox with no trouble (and on Desktop variants too)

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 1 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

Yeah, wants Firefox not a more cotrollable fork, spits its dummy out at certain adblocker settings, doesn't like privacy lists loaded into chromium, and so on. It seems fussy, probably because it's quite snoopy and sends tracking info back to the server as you read posts.

[–] harrybo93@lemmy.world 1 points 3 hours ago

I don't think any of that is an issue if you're running self hosted. We literally don't get any of that info/use any of it lol.