[stoppingin]

I look back very fondly on this era. In retrospect, it seems like the internet was a much more optimistic, much less cynical place.

On a similar note, does anyone else find that new forum software UIs aren't nearly as nice and easy to navigate as the forum software of the early 2000s?

[no_time]

By new forum software, do you mean Discourse? Like: https://forum.openwrt.org/

It took some getting used to but now I'm actually starting to prefer it to phpbb esque forums. Apart from the terrible space utilization that is.

[Aeolun]

I find HN to be quite easily navigable.

[stoppingin]

I definitely consider Hacker News to be designed in the style of the old internet.

[neilv]

old.reddit.com and HN are the two best Web forum UIs that I'm familiar with. (threading, scoring, putting message over writer, and minimizing cruft).

(Though I used to have much more powerful tools for Usenet and email.)