Oh look it's a forum

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I didn't expect this to be good or easy, but it's a bit worse than I expected. And now that I'm figuring it out more, it's not that bad.

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So I just finished making this thing work, only to find that the system I used to set it up is deprecated.

I mean, I knew I was taking a risk deciding to use phpBB3 of all things, but I didn't realize it was already outdated and deprecated.

So anyhow, I might have to join the dark side and set up a discourse or something else instead..

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To be clear, deprecated 8 months ago... :\

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I learned how to merge topics.

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Two days ago, views measured in the double digits at most. Today, everything is in the thousands. I assume this means bots finally figured out I have a new domain, since no one has said anything. xD