LAST EDITED ON Sep-20-20 AT 10:43 PM (EDT)
 
>Going by the copyright date in the footer, I'm actually impressed by
>the forum software, I'd honestly have expected it to stop functioning
>by now given newer versions of underlying OS, web server, etc.

Well, the advantage of its age and relative crockiness is that the software is pretty simple, so there isn't a lot to trip it up as the underlying systems evolve. Or at least that's the impression that I get from talking to people who know, unlike myself, how it actually works. I believe it's all just a bunch of flat files getting shuffled around with scripts.

(On the down side, this is also why it's so sensitive to file system disruptions, which had its most dramatic showing in the Great Upfuck of whatever year that was, and why a huge swathe of the UF General archive is still THERE, but can't be accessed easily.)

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