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PieBB - A PhpBB inspired frontend for piefed (forum.retrofed.com)
submitted 4 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) by DosDude@retrofed.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://retrofed.com/c/meta@retrofed.com/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.
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[–] TragicNotCute@lemmy.world 3 points 49 minutes ago

Very cool project, thanks for sharing!

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

That's pretty fucking cool! Make it sort by new comments (instead of votes) by default and you have an old-fashioned forum!

[–] DosDude@retrofed.com 2 points 1 hour ago

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

[–] tofu@lemmy.nocturnal.garden 5 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Looks very cool

Edit: giving it a second look, I think the distinction between comments isn't clear. The line between to comments seems "weaker" than the one between the commenter and the content. Bit confusing

[–] DosDude@retrofed.com 3 points 59 minutes ago* (last edited 58 minutes ago)

I'll try and clear it up in a future update. Thanks for the feedback!

It might be cleared up with one of the other themes on the bottom of the page.

[–] eleijeep@piefed.social 5 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Looks really nice. The link in your post isn't clickable so here you go: https://forum.retrofed.com/

[–] DosDude@retrofed.com 4 points 4 hours ago

Thanks! Fixed.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 3 points 4 hours ago

Looks great!