Excellent! Glad we could get you sorted! Hosting can be scary and it's okay to be afraid to touch things or not understand certain settings or terms. Especially if you're new. The key is to read the documentation. For your forum needs, this can be found at https://mybb.com and https://phpbb.com. Source: 7 months ago

You may find a current, object-oriented version of phpBB to be just the ticket. It will teach you how to structure the database, authenticate users, manage sessions and selectively display content according to user level, group membership, and other policies. Source: about 3 years ago

There are independent websites that archive them. Example: https://polititweet.org. Source: over 1 year ago

Newspapers change titles and content of existing posts all the time. There are bots that track this (at least for the big ones like NYT [0]). Bloggers can change content/title at any time. People still link to blogs and newspaper articles. There's also already Twitter username change trackers [1] and Twitter deleted post trackers [2]. So I don't see this being much bigger a deal for transparency. There'll just be... - Source: Hacker News / about 2 years ago

When a "celebrity" or someone "famous/influential" deletes a tweet, you can always try going to Polititweet and look at the person's listed deleted tweets... For example, Don Jr's are listed here. Hope this helps! =). Source: over 2 years ago

I have a strong technical background and a passion for digital safety and privacy. Especially interested in trust & safety, privacy engineering, human-centered design, tech policy, and open source software. Looking for an internship or fellowship adjacent to trust & safety or privacy engineering. Some of the projects I’m most proud of are Shynet [0], PrivacySpy [1], PolitiTweet [2], and a17t [3]. I co-instruct CS... - Source: Hacker News / over 2 years ago