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 got the impression that the federated phpBB is even more alpha level than Lemmy/kbin are. It seems to be a very niche need to have a forum like that hooked up to a federated information source. But who knows, we could see an explosion of sites eventually that are a mix of old school forums but all connected, like web rings version 2.0.