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In response to Chris's question, here are some thoughts on creating slowcore-friendly spaces for long-form online discussions. Call me a boomer, but for my purposes I still haven't found anything that measures up to the design of old-school phpBB forums. For ongoing, slow-paced, text-centric, long-form convos, and community-building centered around shared interests, I think they're excellent. I don't have the tech chops to handle setup + maintenance alone, but I've been a co-founder of a well-loved and active phpBB forum before, with me handling the community migration/moderation duties and my colleague handling the back end. Unfortunately that forum came to an unceremonious end for reasons beyond my control. But if some cypherpunks I trust were to say: "We'll build you any kind of space you'd like for Studio Slowcore to migrate your group chat to a new home. We'll handle hosting and tech support, and we'll work closely with you for business continuity planning and minimizing the risks of single points of failure." Assuming we had sufficient revenues to sustain it, then I'd say "Great. Let's go with a phpBB forum." See the first link for an example I found on the phpBB showcase page. https://forum.openoffice.org/en/forum/ That being said, @adam- recently shared a GitHub page with some screenshots from Campfire (see the second link), and the design looks promising enough that @trigs.eth and I seriously considered it for our studio. https://github.com/antiwork/smallbets/blob/master/campfire-mods.md

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I never used the old forum/BB type structures much beyond lightly browsing woodworking forums. I did spend 2 years working with a fairly large Reddit sub and can attest to the difficulty of capturing focus and cultivating conversations of prolonged interest, or even just finding a conversation from last week that kept plucking strings in the back of your brain. But what can I say, it was Reddit. In the end, I think clarity and alignment is likely more important than platform (I suspect that’s why the BB format still exists in super niche communities). When something clicks, being able to push bits of that out to social media apps where the community members can engage with a broader audience (modified POSSE) seems like a positive use of the faster paced feeds. Not a bad idea to own the data as well.

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The pieces are there to make this vision a reality. Yes, it takes some work to get it running, but a social community structure that can take the best of this place and house it in a more manageable environment is possible. Appreciate the work you and @trigs.eth have put in so far, and feel confident that something will come of this that brings this vision to life.

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have you tried https://github.com/discourse/discourse I was the community manager of a citizen science project for CERN where people talked about physics 😆 We used a different software for the forum but discourse was becoming the best one at that moment. If you didn't know it, it might be worthy to take a look at it.

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