I've been thinking a lot about how many communities move off Hive over to Discord to chat and organize. Why are we not using Hive?
Discord is faster pace and more logical for typical chit chat. I always joke 80% of Hive is on Discord, but it is understandable why it is so popular.
BeeChat was added and even added to Peakd interface to counter it, but it isn't used much.
@nonameslefttouse said it best.
Also, TokenBB is on Github. It's a fork of ChainBB the original by @jesta. This does exactly what you are trying to do now.
As someone trying to learn everything I can about the Hive technologies, I find it frustrating how much stuff is buried in fast-moving chats in Discord, but at the same time it is as you say where people socialize.
I think if we had a Reddit-like feature then those nuggets of info wouldn't get quite as lost AND we could do things that are not long-form content but still valuable, like Reddit style AMAs (I know you do those but these wouldn't require 500 words first), post Instagram-like without expectation of lots of text around the photos, memes, shit posts ... :)
Also Reddit style secret santa LOL
There is still a lot of it on chain, but for the most part it's to be expected to have casual chatter on platforms that cater to that. Even Reddit introduced chat and channels.
Sure, and at work we have Slack even though we use Jira and have long written docs - options are good :)
Believe it or not, Slack was used quite a bit on Steem. It has since been moved over a self hosted/free option called Mattesmost.
At work we had to sponsor a tiny community user group because Slack search on free accounts is really curbed. This is another reason I think some things being in a more async, but also relaxed environment with full text search (and google!) being able to bring things out of the depths is worthwhile.
But also the memes and shitposts too :)
So you have chat on one end and 2,000 word blog posts on the other end of the spectrum, with meme-wars and photoshop battles somewhere inbetween.
If I remember, it is limited to saving 10,000 messages. Steemit Inc sponsored paid licenses of Slack, so we had unlimited history, but it was a limited invite system.
It's a shame all commercial chat option are so freaking expensive.
And the fact we can quickly go through those without noticing shows how much of a fire hose chat systems are - one I am in for retro programming is unfollowable because by the time it is morning in my timezone about a thousand messages have been sent
Not quite, it is built in Node and hasn't been updated in a few years, plus it is aimed at a bbs which isn't the scope of what I want.
That said, someone could run with that for sure
Actually...
No, it is a forum not a BBS, exactly what you are trying to do but with caching. BBS have no point point in the last 20 years, that would just be a website. It's called TokenBB but it is exactly like your demo, it was used by Drug Wars, but that was about it, it died off pretty quickly. Even ChainBB never really seen much use as I believe it was mostly under dev but never promoted as an alternative until BuildTeam forked it to commericialize it.
It is a lot like what I want to do but I have ideas beyond what they did is what I mean. They have textual posts, vueJS and a MySQL database, I would like to take the best of Reddit but also go after DeSo, and picture forums ... but I need to start somewhere :)
That's not a BBS.
Turn it into Petscii it really is ;)
Let's not get hung up on terminology though, I take your point