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Thanks to Lemmy, people can stop designing forum websites from the ground up (lemmy.ml)
submitted 1 year ago by glibg10b@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
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Think about it: Lemmy provides you with a ready-made frontend and backend

all you have to do is host your own instance of it. The following could all have been implemented as Lemmy instances, had it existed at the time:

Of course, these all have very different rules and frontends, but those can still be changed.

In addition, members of other instances can visit these forums without having to create new accounts, thanks to everything being federated.

Isn't that cool?

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[–] SheeEttin@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What makes you think everyone was doing it from the ground up? vBulletin, and phpBB were both released in 2000, and Simple Machines was released in 2001. If a forum was custom, it was for a reason.

[–] 2xsaiko@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 1 year ago

Also, more recently Discourse which has become pretty popular.

[–] leraje@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Forum packages have been around for at least 20 years. I'm terms of forum like features the only difference is federation.

[–] RaleighCA@diggit.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

this isnt a new thing actually there are many boilerplates out there for people to use