[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":662},["ShallowReactive",2],{"project-17091262":3},{"id":4,"name":5,"line":6,"line_source":7,"title":8,"url":9,"domain":10,"maker":11,"posted_at":12,"year":13,"points":14,"comments":15,"rank_in_year":16,"shown_in_year":17,"top":18,"tier":19,"category":20,"subcategory":21,"format":22,"keywords":23,"reception":29,"sentiment":30,"stance_mix":31,"scored_comments":35,"aspects":36,"strip":47,"post_text":49,"what":50,"said":83,"maker_in_thread":260,"shape":272,"grid":275,"attempts":624,"same_week":625,"maker_shows":48,"maker_hidden":654,"reader_version":655,"card":656},"17091262","HackerForums.co","A forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN","title","Show HN: HackerForums.co, a forum for the crowd that hangs out on HN","https:\u002F\u002Fhackerforums.co","hackerforums.co","dchuk",1526565551,2018,175,138,217,2155,11,"notable","consumer_social","online forum community","web_app",[24,25,26,27,28],"online forum","phpbb","hacker news community","bulletin board","discussion forum","mixed",-0.374,{"positive":18,"neutral":32,"mixed":33,"critical":34},17,5,29,62,{"design":37,"execution":40,"idea":41,"docs":43,"privacy":45},{"positive":38,"critical":39},0,9,{"positive":38,"critical":18},{"positive":39,"critical":42},6,{"positive":38,"critical":44},1,{"positive":38,"critical":46},2,[44,38,38,38,38,38,44,44,33,48,33,33,48,33,44,44,44,44,48,48,33,44,44,33,33,44,44,38,44,44,48,44,46,44,44,48,48,44,44,44],3,null,{"problem":51,"audience":61,"pricing":49,"motivation":68,"time_to_build":49,"stack":72,"openness":81,"stage":82,"team_size":81},{"value":52,"source":53,"evidence":54},"Long-running, flat-format conversations that HN does not support well","maker",[55,58],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"17091281","This site was borne of the discussion here: https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=17068138 (Specifically this part of the thread: https:\u002F\u002Fnews.ycombinator.com\u002Fitem?id=17071224) I…",{"id":59,"by":11,"text":60},"17091380","Agreed, and thank you! Come join us! Another major upside to forums is the ability to easily directly connect to folks. I've made many friends that way over the years in various…",{"value":62,"source":63,"evidence":64},"People who want a community of Hacker News readers","inferred",[65,67],{"id":66},"post",{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"value":69,"source":53,"evidence":70},"Maker is a fan of bulletin board style forums and wants to revive them",[71],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},[73,77],{"value":74,"source":53,"evidence":75},"phpBB",[76],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},{"value":78,"source":53,"evidence":79},"ThemeForest theme",[80],{"id":56,"by":11,"text":57},"unknown","launched",{"praise":84,"objections":113,"requests":154,"questions":204,"alternatives":234},[85,101],{"value":86,"source":87,"evidence":88},"Welcome to a community of forum-style discussion","commenter",[89,93,97],{"id":90,"by":91,"text":92},"17093785","gnicholas","I like this idea because HN mods (reasonably) discourage certain types of discussions as off-topic. But I'm actually interested to know what HNers think about various topics that…",{"id":94,"by":95,"text":96},"17091332","sevensor","Neat idea. I generally like HN, but it's definitely not a hangout spot. Discouraging idle chatter cuts both ways.",{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},"17091306","greggyb","I've already registered. I'm super hopeful that this grows into a real forum community for extended discussions. I, like many other posters in the inspiration thread, used to…",{"value":102,"source":87,"evidence":103},"Nostalgia for forums and flat discussion format",[104,105,109],{"id":98,"by":99,"text":100},{"id":106,"by":107,"text":108},"17099831","zippoxer","God I miss forums.",{"id":110,"by":111,"text":112},"17094386","maltalex","Nice job. I've actually been looking for more places to hang out with the HN crowd. I'm not sure about this approach though. Forums are too centralized and don't feel interactive…",[114,125,136,147],{"value":115,"source":87,"evidence":116},"Captcha on registration is annoying",[117,121],{"id":118,"by":119,"text":120},"17096429","CM30","Well, I just signed up. Not sure if I'll be active here, but I always like to support forums over social media sites and other corporate silos. That said, if I can give you a bit…",{"id":122,"by":123,"text":124},"17099424","tluyben2","Great! That captcha is bloody awful but I got in :)",{"value":126,"source":87,"evidence":127},"Forum may split the HN community or become like Reddit",[128,132],{"id":129,"by":130,"text":131},"17100618","vinayms","I see a lot of the members are appreciative of this. This venture may or may not take off, but I have to ask this: Why do we need another forum that will potentially split the…",{"id":133,"by":134,"text":135},"17091575","danmg","Nice idea, but I have a feeling that 'Hangout' will turn into 'brigade things we like\u002Fdon't like' aka Reddit.",{"value":137,"source":87,"evidence":138},"Debug PHP warning shown after registering",[139,143],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},"17093537","jwong_","After registering, I'm seeing this: [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]\u002Fincludes\u002Ffunctions_messenger.php on line 506: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that…",{"id":144,"by":145,"text":146},"17097604","slater","After registering: [phpBB Debug] PHP Warning: in file [ROOT]\u002Fincludes\u002Ffunctions_messenger.php on line 506: count(): Parameter must be an array or an object that implements…",{"value":148,"source":87,"evidence":149},"Forced complex password rules",[150],{"id":151,"by":152,"text":153},"17094021","jasonvorhe","> must contain letters in mixed case, must contain numbers and must contain symbols Please don't do this. Have a minimum length, but don't force me to miss it up. My password…",[155,163,170,181,192],{"value":156,"source":87,"evidence":157},"Fix the PHP debug warning and turn off PHP errors",[158,159],{"id":140,"by":141,"text":142},{"id":160,"by":161,"text":162},"17095533","irunbackwards","Turn PHP errors off!",{"value":164,"source":87,"evidence":165},"Add a night mode for the orange theme",[166],{"id":167,"by":168,"text":169},"17096348","frasinet","I hope this gets enough traction. That much orange (on all pages) is unbearable during night if you're using flux.",{"value":171,"source":87,"evidence":172},"Shrink the banner height",[173,177],{"id":174,"by":175,"text":176},"17094487","psychometry","The banner should be about 10% of its current height.",{"id":178,"by":179,"text":180},"17098525","RickS","UX nitpick: The form entry links (lounge, etc) have hover states for the entire row, implying they're clickable, but in reality only the name within the row is clickable. Best to…",{"value":182,"source":87,"evidence":183},"Fix the broken FAQ link",[184,188],{"id":185,"by":186,"text":187},"17095784","justboxing","FAQ = 404 https:\u002F\u002Fhackerforums.co\u002Fhelp\u002Ffaq",{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},"17094643","krapp","Good luck. I definitely think personal webpages and self-hosted forums need to make a comeback. However... Your FAQ link leads to a 404 page, and the \"legalese\" on the…",{"value":193,"source":87,"evidence":194},"Remove the requirement to provide email or register to view pages",[195,196,200],{"id":189,"by":190,"text":191},{"id":197,"by":198,"text":199},"17097375","Mandatum","Don't make me provide my email address.",{"id":201,"by":202,"text":203},"17095528","mabynogy","Consider making something without login (like on 4chan).",[205,216,223],{"value":206,"source":87,"evidence":207},"How will the forum attract users and solve cold start?",[208,212],{"id":209,"by":210,"text":211},"17091937","ploggingdev","Nice idea. The biggest hurdle with starting a community site is getting the initial users and maintaining a level of activity that keeps bringing back users to the site. If…",{"id":213,"by":214,"text":215},"17095404","ivm","The problem of a community like this is the future growth. How will you attract more HN'ers after this submission is buried?",{"value":217,"source":87,"evidence":218},"Is the site GDPR compliant?",[219],{"id":220,"by":221,"text":222},"17097033","merinowool","Are you compliant with GDPR?",{"value":224,"source":87,"evidence":225},"Why not use Discourse instead of phpBB?",[226,230],{"id":227,"by":228,"text":229},"17096947","Kagerjay","I think its a great idea. Topics shouldn't be the same as those found on hackernews, those would be redundant though. I would suggest using discourse.org instead of rolling your…",{"id":231,"by":232,"text":233},"17098710","lokufda222","It would have been nicer to just use discourse.",[235,240,247,253],{"value":236,"source":87,"evidence":237},"Discourse",[238,239],{"id":227,"by":228,"text":229},{"id":231,"by":232,"text":233},{"value":241,"source":87,"evidence":242},"Discord",[243],{"id":244,"by":245,"text":246},"17095237","happertiger","Is it possible to do this in discord? I think it would be much more successful than phpbb.",{"value":248,"source":53,"evidence":249},"NodeBB",[250],{"id":251,"by":11,"text":252},"17093889","It's dead simple to setup, and very cheap to host. Plus I found some decent themes for it that were easy to tweak. Overall though, nodeBB looks really nice, so go for it!",{"value":254,"source":87,"evidence":255},"Simple Machines Forum",[256],{"id":257,"by":258,"text":259},"17098953","devcpp","Excellent initiative. However, I wish you had adopted some more compact and minimalistic system like https:\u002F\u002Fwww.simplemachines.org\u002F (also FOSS). I think the compactness is a big…",{"comments":261,"answered":42,"key":262},39,[263,266,269],{"id":264,"text":265},"17094616","I am they. You are correct. I'll tone it down.",{"id":267,"text":268},"17098830","That was kinda the point of this whole thing though. This wasn't a software project for me, this was a community project. I have no interest in developing a forum, but I do have…",{"id":270,"text":271},"17094618","I'll adjust! EDIT: Changed this to just have a minimum length restriction. 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