Basically all community building has moved on to discord. If you wanna talk crap in chatroom at all hours of the day like IRC was still ubiquitous, that's your best bet. If you really liked PHPbb forums I've got nothing for you.

[–] Gucci_Minh@hexbear.net 28 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I despise having to troubleshoot a niche thing and the community is only on discord. I want a forum that I can search through, not 50 trillion pages of irrelevant drama with the fix nested in a thread and a quote chain that has gone on for 3 months.

[–] RedWizard@hexbear.net 7 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah that's a huge issue that thankfully I've avoided so far. Discord fucking sucks and I hate it bring back Mumble and Ventrilo.

[–] EnsignRedshirt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 week ago

Moving away from forums into discord servers was a huge mistake. The chatroom format is such a mess for anything other than chatting.

[–] hotcouchguy@hexbear.net 26 points 1 week ago

Maybe its just nostalgia, but I do miss old-style BBSes

[–] tricerotops@hexbear.net 19 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

this place is basically an old school phpbb board even if the format is the reddit format. the size and activeness of the community is pretty reminiscent of old phpbb forums though.

[–] isame@hexbear.net 9 points 1 week ago

I think that's why I like it here. I came up on Totse when I was young. Not a good place, mind you. But it was kind of niche and weird and fun. Hexbear reminds me of that, but with some direction and responsibility.