cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/[email protected]/p/2373766/retrofed-forum-powered-by-piebb
Hi,
After getting forum.retrolemmy.com running with lemmyBB, I wondered if Retrofed could get something similar. Instead of getting lemmyBB (an ancient software for lemmy) to work through a proxy, we created a new frontend made natively for PieFed: PieBB. PieBB is more feature complete than lemmyBB and lighter on the server.
Note: This project was created with the help of an LLM.
It’s live at forum.retrofed.com, and makes PieFed look and work like an old phpBB2 forum. You log in with your normal Retrofed account. Posting, voting, polls, PMs, notifications and moderation all work, and you can even import (some) old phpBB2 themes.
If you notice any bugs, you can message me, or reply here.
If you want to use it yourself, it’s at Github. Tested on PieFed 1.8.x.
Known limitations:
- Register sends you to Retrofed’s own sign-up page.
- The index (Last Post, counts) can be a few minutes behind, to keep API calls down.
- Votes made on Retrofed itself can take up to 10 minutes to show in PieBB, due to a cache in PieFed.
That’s pretty fucking cool! Make it sort by new comments (instead of votes) by default and you have an old-fashioned forum!
nah sort by oldest first is the old experience;)
The internal comments to a thread, yes. The sorting of the threads however was newest comment first
As I see what you mean, the way ‘bumping’ and ‘necro-ing’ used to be
To get to new stuff you must first understand the beginnings.
These here are beans and here are some more beans…
That’s pretty much what the frontend does. And the piefed topics and feeds are the forums. It works surprisingly smooth, and I’ve actually been using it on and off for a week
Edit: I now understand what you meant. Sort by new only sorts by post date. You can sort by active, but this excludes posts that have no comment. So for every “forum” (community) the software will have to do 2 api calls, and sort them accordingly. Sort new and active and combine those 2.
To prevent rate-limit I will only do the double api calls for the first page. Anything after will be sorted by new, to make sure the topics without comments still get potential views.