LFGSS and Microcosm shutting down 16th March 2025 (the day before the Online Safety Act is enforced)
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By that i mean, is your code compatible you think with other forum hosting platforms ?
Before I built this platform I attempted to modify the skins / themes of existing software to look like this. It did not work... those platforms are not capable of doing this... the experience goes too deep.
Instead I built an experience that combined old Twitter, a little Reddit, a bit of vBulletin, kept high familiarity with forum software, and then simplified simplified simplified (with a lot of help from Big Daddy Wayne to keep it simple).
This frontend, this UI, this experience... it's not compatible with any other software, it's inherently coupled to this platform and backend.
Velocio
Again i'm sure this has been asked a hundred times, but is microcosm "universal" enough to be copied to another host ?
By that i mean, is your code compatible you think with other forum hosting platforms ?
I think one of the strongest points of this platform is the simple and modern design compared to many forums which are still running like a early 2000s windows skin flr some reason.
My idea, at least something i would hope to be possible would be to use another host for forums not in the UK (hello pignolefixe) and that we transfer the microcosm coding to use as a custom skin (some hosts do allow some modification).
It may be a lot of work, I'm not a dev so no idea, but I'm looking into how to keep PF alive.