*quietly checks the status of phpBB

I've moved our forums to Xenforo a few years ago, by the creators of vBulletin. It's alright if you liked vB but it doesn't seem to get much updates, but that might be because it's "finished" software.

I also tried some years ago to install Discourse but you need all kinds of server setup for that, too complicated to be an alternative to "old fashioned" PHP forum software. And that's before going into the UX, which is more webapp than old fashioned forums. I'm glad I didn't push through with that migration.

> it doesn't seem to get much updates, but that might be because it's "finished" software.

Thank the gods.

https://github.com/NodeBB/NodeBB might be worth checking out

A decent number of redditors moved to Lemmy instances after reddit pulled that move with the API/unofficial apps a few summers ago

It felt like the Lemmy instances really died off in a month or two.

Some did, others are thriving. Still a small community though.