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Are Internet boards and Forums dead
(lemm.ee)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
What was/is wrong with PhpBB?
It's right there in the name: PHP
Seriously though maintaining a PHP server is a security nightmare and you have to be constantly updating if you don't want to be hacked. Just not worth it when there's better options out there
The software was so bad that if you didn't keep up with emergency security fixes for even a week, the forum would instantly be taken over by someone. Being hacked was the natural state of that software.