Old Misago versions screenshots

I have bunch of screenshots from early Misago's development lying around I would like to share as a bit of trivia for those interested. 🙂

Here's oldest one, from July 2012, its a permission error screen:

All of the UI is mocked at this point. I've started with perms error because on an internet forum there are quite a lot of places that check for permission.

Here's login screen form the same date:

And a registration form, 8 days later:

Earliest screenshot of the admin panel, mid-August 2012:

And here's the earliest screenshot of Misago's "white and blue" theme which Misago 0.1 was shipped with:

User's profile, I was big into StarCraft 2 back then:

Account settings:

Forum index:

Thread page:

Threads list:

And then few releases later, a big redesign inspired by Google's "Strawman" design:

This design remained with Misago for years, until another big redesign in 2018 when I've launched Misago 0.16 that replaced old UI with completely new one done in React.js and Bootstrap 13.

Here's how Misago 0.15, last one before React.js, looked like:

Misago is not the first forum I've ever developed. This honor belongs to Pegasus, a PHP CMS I was working on in 2007 as my first OS project ever. This CMS had a forum module in its admin control panel for site staff to discuss stuff:

I've had more fun writing forum module than I've had working on the rest of the CMS, so I've decided to start a new project and little over a year later (in 2008) I've had this:

Callisto was an IPB 2.1 clone, as it was trendy back then for upstart forum devs who didn't want to design their own. 🙂 It had quite a lot of features, and it was gaining impressive number of users. Sadly it was a nightmare from the performance standpoint. 😬

I have a bunch of those. But I can't find first first screenshot of Uniboard.

However, when I've finally completed something enough to run a test forum on it, it looked like this:

Here's screenshot with older header, but its pretty close to how posts looked like: