Comment by walrus01

I have seen a bit of a resurgence in your classic 2005-era type interface php bulletin board in a browser, as people relegate their facebook/instagram/whatever accounts to only keeping up with family stuff posted by boomers who won't use anything else, or things like niche neighborhood based buy & sell groups (or community notice groups in like a town of 12,000).

I guess there's at least 3 or more active and currently developed software packages with open source licenses, the flaskbb that site uses, simplemachinesforum, the classic phpbb, probably some others I've forgotten about... The LAMP stack dependencies for all seem very mundane and very lightweight.