Are forums dying?

[Dacien]

Sweet summer child, you know only of half-chan.

Half-chan, three-quarters chan, 1/32 chan, none of them places are for me.

[Theodarzna]

Half-chan, three-quarters chan, 1/32 chan, none of the places are for me.

Chans are beautiful places IMHO.

It is a unique space without gender, identity, form or substance. You are really nobody there and its kind of fun to be able to just be nobody.

Though I get why its overwhelmingly IRL males on those boards.

[Seramore]

Reddit has gotten worse, but it's partly due to administration letting bad actors run wild and moderators having way too much power.

Only thing reddit is good for is porn and a handful of niche subreddits.

moderators having "too much power" isn't an issue with reddit, it's an issue with sub owners allowing bad moderation

[TidesOfBlood]

I still come here for the bfa images. Other than that, I go reddit. Why remember a bunch of website names when everything is consolidated in reddit.

[Theodarzna]

The only forums I truly miss are the Myspace forums though. To me, that was the last good forum.

[Byleth]

nah. thanks to the trump administration's use of russian bots, forums are now brimming with alt right activity.

Couldn't agree more. It's very disheartening.

[Seramore]

Couldn't agree more. It's very disheartening.

Imagine actually thinking that forum trolls are Russian bots as well as thinking that anybody who leans towards any direction is part of the alt-left/right.

[alabaster jones]

Had a few forums I used to visit, this is the last one I'm on with any kind of regularity, hard for me to back to my old hangouts and see old friends turned full blown infowars conspiracy theorists.

[draynay]

This one is, dunno about the others.

you mean draenei female porn?

You got a problem with male draenei?

[Spiral Mage]

So we've gone from "Is (X) game dying?"
To "Are Forums dying?"

Sorry, I had to.

[Deleted]

nah. thanks to the trump administration's use of russian bots, forums are now brimming with alt right activity.

This is the reason forums are dying. People like this.
Last thing you want when you are visiting your favorite forum is to read garbage like this constantly. To bad the forum is invested with em.

[Cæli]

consolidated places will replace everything, reddit for focused topics (it keeps getting better), twitter for public communication. discord/slack like apps for internal communication. emails will never disappear as it will be like a unique key to differentiate persons and allow them to have personal data. even though the protocols could change.

forums will be marginal/niche but always demanded

[Deleted]

forums are better for longform discussions or infodumps, and are very good for questions that require longer answers. and often specialized forums also simply have more support for fancy stuff like math equations or graphs thats harder to do in other comment form factors.

twitter is way to short for anything of substance.
reddit has its niche but the up/downvote system has pros and cons that make a regular forum better for some purposes.
discord is a chatbox and woefully unsuited for anything that needs to stay visible for any length of time.
blogs also share a lot of similarity with forums for things like guides etc.

[zealo]

Proper forums like this one is a relic of older days on the internet, yes.

Reddit may be hugely popular, but it's structure is nothing like a proper forum. It's a news aggregator in the sense that any thread older than about a day or so might as well not exist from the amount of people interacting with it past that point.

[Slant]

IRC is still around. Why should forums die? Their cost in terms of network traffic is still super low. And if you want indepth discussion, forums are still the preferred format, because of the format. Reddit isn't good for discussions, neither is discord (which is more in competition with IRC to begin with).

[Mormolyce]

It's weird because reddit and twitter seem like really, really shit forums to me.

Like, twitter is a forum that doesn't properly thread comments. Reddit looks like a forum from 1996.

[breadisfunny]

This one is, dunno about the others.



You got a problem with male draenei?

not into refridgerators.

[Player Twelve]

IRC is still around. Why should forums die? Their cost in terms of network traffic is still super low. And if you want indepth discussion, forums are still the preferred format, because of the format. Reddit isn't good for discussions, neither is discord (which is more in competition with IRC to begin with).

Reddit subs is heads on retarded in many subs because of the moderators of them. I was banned from a sub for talking from an european point of view.

[Orby]

well I dont use Reddit, or any forms of social media....

And considering what I have seen and heard about Reddit I cannot imagine ill be jumping ship any time soon :P

[Slant]

Reddit subs is heads on retarded in many subs because of the moderators of them. I was banned from a sub for talking from an european point of view.

Well, your "European" point of view is very Swedish at times. Not to say it's straight up racist, but Sweden is definitely one of the Xenophobic countries in forums.