xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

@WALFTEAM @PurpCat @Corfiot Yes and no. Forums are simple enough to be hosted on a shared hosting service, unlike Fediverse instances which are better off (or out right required) being hosted on a VPS. Even the most popular modern forum software, XenoForo is still written in PHP. And many hosts these days have autoinstallers for packages like phpBB and WordPress, so you don't need to learn things like SSH or FTP.

Granted, I have never actually hosted a forum (outside of testing forum software that I wrote myself almost a decade ago and have lost the source code to since), but I think the biggest problem that forum admins had to deal with is spam. I remember phpBB having the most basic captchas (if you can even call them that). It could be simple as clicking on a checkbox. And I remember back when Reddit was becoming more popular, the common argument of hosting their discussions on there over a forum was the spam issue.

Though, even with basic captchas, you can still handle the spam problem with an active moderation team, filtering out certain email domains (.biz domains are known for spam and abuse), among other things.

Other than that, you have to deal with eventually having to change servers or upgrade your hosting plan if your forum is popular for a long time. It's probably why most forums required you to upload images to a separate server like Photobucket instead of uploading images directly.

@GabeLakmann @Tony @hachi @caekislove @Jim @Shadowbroker2135 @Some_German_Guy At least it's being honest unlike those trannies who LARP as anarchists.