Hacker News with Generative AI: Forums

Ask HN: Are forums dead? (ycombinator.com)
I got a bit of nostalgia to the old days of phpBB forums about computers. I enjoyed the days when forum software was purely a forum software, without any real time messaging/chat, and where people would post longer content than 120 characters.<p>Are forums dead? Do you know of any active forum on computers, software, hardware?

Online Communities, Nostalgia, Forums, Software, Hardware

17 points by skwee357 53 days ago | 11 comments

Forum with 2.6M posts being deleted due to UK Online Safety Act (hexus.net)
With the impeding full implementation of the 2023 online safety act, it looks like HEXUS forums will have to close, or at least downgrade to read only.

Online Safety, Legislation, Forums, Censorship, UK

273 points by jonatron 63 days ago | 288 comments

Show HN: Minforum, modern and minimalistic discussion software (minforum.org)

Open Source, Software, Forums, Web Development

16 points by geeklekan 70 days ago | 0 comments

Autodesk partially restores old forum posts (autodesk.com)
We are excited to share some important updates regarding Archiving and our Idea Boards and Forums that aim to enhance your experience and ensure valuable content remains accessible. Please read the details below to understand how these changes might impact you.

Software, Forums, Archiving, Community

109 points by nsoonhui 91 days ago | 32 comments

Show HN: A self hostable forum like news.Y Combinator.com (lfx.lol)
Feel free to play around with this site, create an account, and make posts!

Self Hosting, Forums, Y Combinator, Web Development

18 points by dev2point0 105 days ago | 4 comments

Show HN: Automatic Python scraper for xenforo, phpbb, invision, smf, vbulletin (github.com/TUVIMEN)
forumscraper aims to be an universal, automatic and extensive scraper for forums.

Web Scraping, Python, Forums, Software, Open Source

3 points by TUVIMEN 109 days ago | 0 comments

Autodesk deletes old forum posts suddenly (autodesk.com)
This thread is closed for comment, so I'm posting here.The title says archiving but the posts indicate >>> Unfortunately, we cannot keep the content , which in my book is DELETING.