The irony with this is that they weren’t entirely wrong. The internet is now a corporate mall. Welcome to Web 2.0 baby!
I bought board months ago but never figured it out. It feels like the company has abandoned the product and all the support forums for it are filled with bots talking about their favorite blog
IRC? Matrix? XMPP?
As a young person, who only learned about IRC a couple years ago. I am amazed that people still remember this single bash.org quote so well.