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6th September 2024
Today's SoCoder's 18th birthday.
Happy Birthday, SoCoder!
So very old, now.

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Happy 18th Birthday, SoCoder

18 years ago, CodersWorkshop unceremoniously got stripped away without warning, and I scrambled to put together a "temporary" forum to keep things going in the meantime.
18 years on, and the site's still up and running, which I guess is a testament to just how sturdy I tried to make it in the first place.
It's got a complete and total rewrite back in 2017, where I finally took the time to neaten up all my gnatty code, and upgraded the SQL code to work a little better, but the database is 100% exactly how it was.
It even has leftover spaces for MSN/AIM/ICQ/YahooChat and GoogleChat! .. Not even Google+!!

So many old bits and pieces. Leftovers from almost 2 decades of old bits of data shoved into a database that's never been cleared out.
But, hey, at least it's still going!
And though 99% of the users are no longer active on the site, it's still a cosy home from home to all, and they're welcome to return at any point. Except one or two bad-actors over the years. .. There's always one.

Last year I had plans to integrate JSE into SoCoder a little more, so that users could register on SoCoder, then use that login on JSE, so it'd cloud-save all your code.
I never got around to that, as a giant upheaval happened at home. Maybe this year I should do that.
Sure would've been nice to have had that done for today, but .. Hey, ho...

Oh well. Keep going, SoCoder.
I can't imagine it'll still be in the same form in the future, though. I mean, it was already old looking when I launched it!
Maybe it's time for an upheaval of its own.
What form could that be, though?
How do you do a modern re-interpretation of a classic Forum?

Thoughts in the comments?

Happy 18th Birthday, SoCoder

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