I've been working on resurrecting a 20-year-old social media concept and it only just dawned on me that the vast majority of people on the internet today, even those older than me, will have never seen this concept and so it will be brand new to them
@joepie91 I can find very little info on it, it was also excluded from the Wayback Machine because they redirected their crawler to an unsupported browser error page 😑
How is it different from a forum?
@eloy A forum was one of the functionalities offered, but there were also other sections and features, ranging from news/pictures to a chatroom. So you often got something that was kind of inbetween a personal website and a forum.
Probably the closest analogy would be those decked-out forum installs with a 'lobby' or 'portal' with all sorts of stuff other than just forum threads. Except a lot simpler to interact with.
@joepie91
This reminds me of my ongoing fantasy of having a thing which is a bit facebook-ish, but without tracking and algorithms and other bad stuff, where community groups could put their events and have chat groups and things. I hate that all the local eco groups where I am are heavily Facebook based 😭
@eloy