Quote from: logfiles on May 18, 2024, 07:59:35 PM

Quote from: muncuss on May 16, 2024, 09:56:34 PM

lol 10 years. Why create new if there is something out there with full functionality already exist? Vbulletin and phpBB exist.

In his words, the administrator wanted to create an open new forum software that could directly compete with the likes of SMF and phpBB

Quote from: theymos on March 20, 2014, 02:18:26 AM

Work is underway by Slickage on new forum software for this forum. The software will be written in Node.js. The goal is to create new open source forum software that will directly compete with software like SMF and phpBB. Unlike Discourse, the software will be featureful and information-dense. Unlike Reddit, the software will support and encourage lengthy, high-quality posts (while allowing shorter posts). The software will be a jump forward from our current forum, but not something entirely new. The basic concepts will stay the same, but with significantly better code, better methods of filtering the huge amount of content, and many other useful features. All old forum data will be retained and migrated to the new software.

I don't know if this dream is a strong as before but to me, I think we many never see that forum software come to life or by the time we decide to migrate there, a lot may have changed and what we think will be the "new" forum software will be years "old" compared to other software available.

SMF and phpBB isn't that popular these days. And even now, IMO some modern-looking forum software (such as Discouse and Flarum) already feels newer than Epochtalk.