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1. PurpCat (V2) (need more art) (purpcat@marsey.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 08:41:03 JST PurpCat (V2) (need more art)

   • Rocket
   Yeah PHP forums never died. Even Xenforo is PHP. The issue is; php isn't trendy, forums aren't trendy for someone to write some shit in Rust or something (Josh claims he is but he's currently fighting internet warfare), and most importantly php at least for Xenforo didn't scale well.
   
   On the flipside WP and mediawiki are php.
   • PurpCat (V2) (need more art) (purpcat@marsey.moe)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 08:41:57 JST PurpCat (V2) (need more art)

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     • Rocket
     • :blank:
     >but phone posters killed the forum, the ui/ux just didn't transter over
     
     I mean look how many retards on sites like KF were phoneposters, and 4chan especially. I disagree on that part, I think the part that killed it were the wave of new NPCs who wanted an "app" for it.
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   • xianc78@gameliberty.club's status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 08:41:57 JST xianc78

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     @PurpCat @Rocket @i One could write an app for Discourse forums because Discourse has API endpoints.

   • :blank: (i@declin.eu)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 08:41:59 JST :blank:

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     • Rocket
     @PurpCat @Rocket there's also https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB
     
     but phone posters killed the forum, the ui/ux just didn't transter over
   • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 09:00:55 JST 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:

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     • Rocket
     @PurpCat @Rocket Trends are just techbro circle jerks.
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   • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified: (tk@bbs.kawa-kun.com)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 09:00:58 JST 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:

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     • 竹下憲二 【記録係】:verified:
     Centralization of Internet services mainly exists to promote monetization and other forms of control while fooling the users into thinking they're getting something convenient and useful for free.
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   •  (mint@ryona.agency)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 17:37:57 JST 

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     • Rocket
     • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:
     @icedquinn @PurpCat @Rocket That was HHVM, which dropped full compatibility with PHP at some point after release of PHP7. Some were using it to speed up their sites, but nowadays there's no point in it since modern PHP is really damn fast and PHP8 got a JIT compiler as well. Not like the pure speed matters much when 95% of bottleneck in backend webdev is in I/O.
   • iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta: (icedquinn@blob.cat)'s status on Wednesday, 14-Jun-2023 17:37:58 JST iced quinnsmas :blobcatsanta:

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     • Rocket
     @PurpCat @Rocket facebook has been keeping php alive with some weird transpiler projects and custom VMs.