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I miss webforums terribly. phpBB boards were everything back in the day. Reddit/Lemmy isn't remotely the same.
I keep hoping some of the new old web stuff will manage to strike a spark again.
I personally prefer Markdown to BBCode and not having to have a ton of different different accounts, but if you want phpBB forums, they are out there. Search a Web search engine for a string that exists on the website that the forum software displays by default. "Powered by vBulletin", "Powered by phpBB", etc.
searches
https://www.findaforum.net/Home/TopForums/
It's annoying to have different accounts but at the same time I feel like it's a necessary component if you wanted to retain the same feel. Plus password managers making keeping it all organized dead simple.