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Work · February 8, 2021

Trying to reinvent the forum

This is a completely modified SMF forum. What do you think?

Trying to reinvent the forum launched on February 8, 2021 with 3 votes.

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What it does

Forums are dying and free open source projects are stuck and unwilling to change. One of them is SMF Simplemachines Forum. It is a very popular free forum script, but as I said it feels ancient now. They don't even have a mobile theme for their support forum.

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