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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[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 day ago (5 children)

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

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 17 hours ago (3 children)

nah sort by oldest first is the old experience;)

[–] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

The internal comments to a thread, yes. The sorting of the threads however was newest comment first

[–] dreadbeef@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

Ah I see what you mean, the way 'bumping' and 'necro-ing' used to be

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