<story><title>How to run a small social network site for your friends</title><url>https://runyourown.social/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nerada</author><text>I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc.&lt;p&gt;HN is great, but it&amp;#x27;s very point in time. If I find an interesting topic posted over a day ago, it&amp;#x27;s never getting new replies. It&amp;#x27;s a snapshot of the thoughts on that topic for that single day, nothing more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>account42</author><text>As much as I like threaded discussion like on HN I think it makes following discussion over a longer period of time almost impossible as you need to look all over the tree for new replies. Even reddit&amp;#x27;s highlighting of new posts does not really fix that and is s paid feaure anyway (except in the subs you moderate) so won&amp;#x27;t have any effect on the nature of the community. Maybe having both a threaded view for the first time you want to read through a thread and a more linear view for updates would make sense.</text></comment>
<story><title>How to run a small social network site for your friends</title><url>https://runyourown.social/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Nerada</author><text>I miss how every hobby had a forum running on phpBB, SimpleMachines, Invision, etc.&lt;p&gt;HN is great, but it&amp;#x27;s very point in time. If I find an interesting topic posted over a day ago, it&amp;#x27;s never getting new replies. It&amp;#x27;s a snapshot of the thoughts on that topic for that single day, nothing more.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rtpg</author><text>Yeah honestly forums counteract soooo much of the weird incentives that lead to a lot of yelling (yes there is still yelling in forums)&lt;p&gt;I’ve been in two “tiny forums” in the past and honestly I prefer that to the idea of a Twitter clone. Let’s people put in more effort, have real topics (like about events) and isn’t just streams.</text></comment>