Look I'll be blunt. The phpbb3 update killed boards all over the world
Norope died. Honestly I was more of a norope boarder, y'all were too damn old and problematic for me, not that norope was so much more dignified. Big shout-out to joules who posted a link to dumbrella the best webcomic message board back in the day. And probably the most problematic, in hindsight. That board was killed by phpbb3 ultimately.
On dumbrella there was a boarder, the make out hobo. The make out hobo was incredibly online, and had like tens of thousands of posts on multiple message boards. One of them, let's say uh a music focused one... has been my message board since 2009.
The admin is a pimp and a g. We have scaling for phones. Mobile site. Post count reset and name changes. Member only subforums. No bots. You want the phpbb experience come here. There's a few climbers
Unfortunately for most of you this is a higher standard of board. So you need to pm for the link.
Big ups to my online friends from a different web era