I recently came across LemmyBB, a frontend for Lemmy that is based on the popular forum software phpBB. It seems like a great way to bring the familiar forum experience to the federated world of Lemmy. However, I haven’t seen any significant migration of forums to Lemmy using this UI. What could be the reasons behind this? Are there any technical or usability issues that are preventing forums from adopting LemmyBB and moving to the Lemmy platform?
I was thinking about this the other day and it’s good to see a project like this.
Although it’s early days, I could see people skipping establishing their own forums and, instead, setting up their own instance because it gives your forum a much greater reach.
The tricky bit would be in migrating existing forums over here. If you had your own instance it could be doable once the relevant scripts had been perfected - you’d just be moving information from one database to another. As I’ve overseen a few migrations of forum software, I know that’s easier said than done but not impossible.
It’s definitely an area I’ll be keeping an eye on.