why does the community of Holla Forums refuse to use Infinity Next? i personally don't know much at all about webdev crap myself but most of the reasons seem retarded. if we can find the real problems, maybe we can actually fix them and let Infinity bitrot already.
Infinity Next is under the AGPL which is about as good as you can get with a libre license for protecting your freedom with web technologies, i would think that this community would want to give site admins as little room as possible for abuse.
lets try to cover some of the typical bases right away before you shitposters bring them up inevitably
Infinity is written with PHP. from what i understand, PHP is a good choice if you want your imageboard software to be able to run on the cheapest servers. considering that we're strapped for money, isn't this generally an ideal thing
i have heard it is a mess and held together with duct tape, from all the shit that happened on the user end that seems like a logical conclusion. it also has the Tinyboard license as one of its licenses which is a shitty license, requires that Tinyboard notice in the footer: github.com
its open source, fork it/make your own instance. Josh is not Infinity Next, he develops it.
it can be improved can it not?
his official stance seems to be that he does not understand FOSS, but its more likely its about his ads and/or some sort of shady shit.
then get Jim to understand how AGPL works and how to make it work out with his ads so he gets his shekels
i've heard all sorts of things, both good and bad. i'd personally prefer the AGPL for imageboard software because it doesn't let site admins abuse you as much like i said before, the MIT license can be relicensed to that though.