• Who remembers phpBB
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The good old days of manually installing phpBB plugins by modifying its scripts. Reading through a massive list of "open this, go to line xx, delete this, add this"
I currently run a forum on phpBB lmao
damn installing those phpbb plugins made me feel like I was a really skilled programmer. they would have skill rating on how difficult it was to installing plugins and how long it would take to literally just copy and paste code :v
There some sites that still offers phpBB. It's free, and still works. So, uh.
Having to manually install plugins is the exact reason I went with SMF because I failed to install some plugin for adding attachements to PHPBB 2 :v. In the end I liked SMF better anyway.
My first exposure to PHP source code. Never really knew what I was doing and when it begun working it was quite impressive... until I broke it installing another plugin. Always preferred SMF at the time as it had a nice WordPress-like plugin system with auto install.
Editing the theme I was using at the time was my first exposure to programming/PHP. Editing files and pushing them over FTP, in production of course and then having the entire forum turn completly blank because that's what the PHP settings on the webhost were configured to do. Fun times :v
Used to be fun to play around with, learnt PHP from fucking around with it. Thankfully Zetaboards and then MyBB were huge improvements not long after.
Great but constantly had security flaws back in the day. Still going. Heard great things about XenForo but it's not free. Discourse too which is actually free
PhpBB is still being used although less frequent. I know Sitesplat is still working on new templates and plugins for instance. His Flatboots template actually kinda got me back into PhpBB untill I logged back in to the ACP.
Nothins better then digging into that ghetto cpanel just to install a damn theme
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