Orange Forum
Infrastructure
self-hosted forum software
SHOW HN2017
226points
172comments
#130of 2,242 in 2017
Top 6%of 2017 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
12 positive, 15 neutral or asking, 1 mixed, 10 critical, out of 38 comments about the project. Thread score +0.04.
Design: 4 for, 4 againstIdea: 3 for, 1 againstPerformance: 2 for, 1 againstPrivacy: 0 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 2 against
The thread, comment by comment
Each row is a top-level comment and its replies, in HN's order. Select a cell to open that comment on HN.
positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker
What HN said
What people liked
Fast and lightweight, responds quickly
From 3 comments
The irony is that because of the lean structure behind the server, this forum actually responds faster than most webfora that do use AJAX/SPA. Funny given that the whole purpose…
candiodari on HNThe live demo is already full of trolling sigh. So yep, it's a forum. Nice and fast though. Good work.
scrumper on HNHow can a few lines of text load so fast !? Are we so far into the Obesity Crisis that people find this impressive ? :P
z3t4 on HN
Works well in text browsers like w3m
From 1 comment
Works beautifully with w3m which has become my main site test lately. Another great example is HN itself. If it doesn't work well with w3m something is wrong with the site…
binaryapparatus on HN
Good philosophy of minimal JavaScript
From 2 comments
I love this, this is how I've been writing my latest projects, with very little js and it's been a huge productivity booster.
swlkr on HNThis is cool. I've been thinking about this for a while. The best way to write high quality web applications is to use compiled languages and minimize the complexity of the…
hasenj on HN
Objections
Lacks spam control and moderation; demo gets trolled
From 3 comments
Likes on bringing such a retro concept back; but seems like you don't have any kind of spam control :D would be nice to have one.
maxpert on HNLooks like you'll need to start moderating this already, as of an hour ago, at least. The process of setting up a public sandbox for users to play with seems like it should be…
Eyas on HNThe live demo is already full of trolling sigh. So yep, it's a forum. Nice and fast though. Good work.
scrumper on HN
Too much whitespace in the design
From 1 comment
So much whitespace in the demo. Real web 1.0 forums can fit way more thread titles on screen ;)
Aardwolf on HN
Called Web 2.0 rather than Web 1.0 by commenters
From 2 comments
Ok, sorry, bitter old man coming through: this is Web 2.0, not 1.0. For all the buzzwords, Web 2.0 was defined by the dynamic interactive solicitation of user input as opposed to…
mseebach on HNThe term "Web 2.0" is an unfortunate choice and as a consequence it has been rarely used correctly. Funny enough I've been to a Web 2.0 Conference about 10 years ago where almost…
emrekzd on HN
Security concerns about password hashing and cookie generation
From 1 comment
I'd recommend you to use Argon2 instead of bcrypt for storing password. It has won the Password Hashing Competition last year and is the recommended way to store passwords.…
baby on HN
Requests
Add spam protection and moderation
From 2 comments
Likes on bringing such a retro concept back; but seems like you don't have any kind of spam control :D would be nice to have one.
maxpert on HNCan I ask what (if any) are your future plans with this? And what's the reason you decided to create it? (only to showcase web 1.0 style forums, or ... other reasons too?) For…
KajMagnus on HN
Limit length of long posts with a see-all option
From 1 comment
in the demo when a response is massive it takes a long time to load. example: https://groups.goodoldweb.com/topics?id=33 It needs to limit entries to a certain number of…
devmunchies on HN
FastCGI support for shared hosting
From 1 comment
I think you guys are awesome. Keep up good work. Battery, CPU and RAM of my laptop are having the same feeling. Can I deploy it as fcgi script on cheap shared Apache hosting?
meehow on HN
Google and Facebook login
From 1 comment
Can I ask what (if any) are your future plans with this? And what's the reason you decided to create it? (only to showcase web 1.0 style forums, or ... other reasons too?) For…
KajMagnus on HN
Questions
Future plans and whether hosting will be provided
From 1 comment
Can I ask what (if any) are your future plans with this? And what's the reason you decided to create it? (only to showcase web 1.0 style forums, or ... other reasons too?) For…
KajMagnus on HN
Whether the project is available on GitHub
From 1 comment
I've had certain forum software sometimes as a side project, sometimes as my man full time project, during the last 7 years. So yes there's lots of work. But in my case lots of…
KajMagnus on HN
Image support
From 1 comment
Any support for images?
nategri on HN
Alternatives named
DFeed (D language forum, newsgroup-based)
From 1 comment
Interesting.. Looks sleek.. DLang forum [1] is similarly lightweight and it runs as a newsgroup, IIRC. Source code at [2] and previous discussions on HN [3] [1]…
arunc on HN
Archlinux forums on FluxBB
From 1 comment
The old style forums are showing their age and need to be modernized but not abandoned. See the Archlinux forums based on Fluxbb. It's fast and effective. The newer ones led by…
throw2016 on HN
Discourse, NodeBB, Flarum
From 1 comment
The old style forums are showing their age and need to be modernized but not abandoned. See the Archlinux forums based on Fluxbb. It's fast and effective. The newer ones led by…
throw2016 on HN
Xenforo and vBulletin
From 2 comments
I built a forum from scratch once and it is a comical amount of work. The initial CRUD weekend-ware is straight forward. LIMIT/OFFSET for pagination. Throw in some Markdown…
always_good on HNIIRC, Jeff Atwood of Discourse said it takes at least three years for a project to finally approach the objectives that it set out to achieve (or something). I'm sure he was…
always_good on HN