• Corhen
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    111 year ago

    I just found that Runescape shut down its forums, replacing it with a discord.

    Look, i love my clans discord, and my discord with friends, but one for a game like that is nearly unusable.

  • @adam_y@lemmy.world
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    11 year ago

    All my heart still belongs to the canon HV20 forum. It taught me how to film, it taught me how to chat to people in an online community.

    It was never about a camcorder. It was about connection.

    Plus, you could search for stuff on google and the forum results would pop up. Good look with discord doing that.

  • @TechNerdWizard42@lemmy.world
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    131 year ago

    I like the idea of Reddit and it works much better than Lemmy. But the moderation and AI scraping make it a no-go site for me anymore which is a shame.

    I love internet forums and have been a mod at some and very high poster at other. But the snowball effect gets them. If there’s no traffic, there’s no posts, so there’s no traffic. You need to have a good community to make it work. One area reddit really shines, small communities exist on a huge platform. Great idea before the enshittification.

    I hate discord and the fact that anyone replaces customer support or fan support pages with it, is just fundamentally broken. The idea of a forum is that the question is asked and archived. 20 years later someone else googles the question and sees the answer and all the replies that lead up to it. That’s what forums are for. In discord you ask a question and 30 seconds later it’s gone forever eaten by useless drivel. Never to be searched or found again. Idiotic.

  • Roflmasterbigpimp
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    161 year ago

    Maybe I’m too young or just had bad luck, but ALL the interactions I’ve ever had with Internet forums have been unbelievably awful. Whenever I asked a question, I was asked why I wanted to know that and was lectured that my reasons were stupid, bad, or wrong (how is that even possible?). People hijacked my post and talked about anything else, and I received NO answer whatsoever! This kind of thing happened way too often, regardless of the type of forum. This occurred in Skyrim forums, Coh2 forums, PC forums, aquarium forums, … I hate forums. It’s good that they are dying, and I, for one, will not miss them at all.

    • @stoly@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      Back in the newsgroup days when only people who worked for a government agency or university had access, it was all very nice. It’s once the general public got in that every thing went to shit. Suddenly everyone could create their own fiefdom from which to project their internal insecurity.

    • @JargonWagon@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I’ve been going more often lately. I do hate having to catch up on 600 pages that’s been discussed over the past 8 years though.

      • @CptInsane0@lemmy.world
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        11 year ago

        Yeah that part is annoying. I have to make myself not read every single comment. I have a browser extension that helps organize that a bit.

  • @Katana314@lemmy.world
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    161 year ago

    Just to pose a thought; how practical would it be for a small subject owner to run a FediVerse instance intended to stay localized to their domain?

    For example: Indie game owner makes a reasonably popular game, they set up a website that Lemmy users can subscribe/join directly, and use that for forums/tips/discussions related to their game. People don’t need to register as long as they have an account somewhere. Some number of users would be new to Lemmy and use that site’s registration for later discovery. And, someday when X instance (the game, or the next popular one) gets infested by neonazis, everyone just moves to another and/or has other discussions backed up.

    I don’t know how practical or convenient that is though. I imagine a lot of groups don’t want to risk lost users.

    • EarMaster
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      Discourse exists and is free to self-host and open source. Compared to classic forum software (like most *bb variants) it is a pleasure to use and feels not like a remnant of a lost age.

      The (only?) downside is the similar name to Discord, but that’s not them to blame, because they had their name first.

    • @mlg@lemmy.world
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      101 year ago

      Because the vote system inherently supports popularity which creates content masking issues and usually results in communities with mods that want to keep that system.

      Stack overflow has this exact same issue where stupid crap gets upvoted and useful stuff gets nuked so users don’t see things that would otherwise be important or useful.

      Lemmy somewhat avoids it due to the relatively low number of posts, but that could easily change.

  • @CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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    31 year ago

    It‘s really annoying how searching anything online becomes harder by the day because of it and AI is not helping with it either.

  • @someguy3@lemmy.world
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    21 year ago

    Every now and then I get a forum as a search result and they’re just so clunky. Replies are spaced out too much, no chains, everyone has a long winded signature phrase. I’m glad it went to this kind of format.

  • MaXsteri
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    101 year ago

    Internet Forums disappearing is a real shame.

    For my hobby there’s still lots and lots of old and relevant archived forum threads that regularly help me out.

    But for new information, that has all moved to Facebook Groups. This forces me to keep a Facebook account, which I hate and would otherwise ditch in a heartbeat.

    • @weeeeum@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      So much lost knowledge. Even on forums that remain, I feel as though 80% of all images no longer function. Especially frustrating when said image is constantly referred to.

    • @Rayspekt@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      Man for some reason local musicians are unable to connect aside from the facebook, at least from my subjective pov.

      Nonetheless I moved on from the zuck, but I realise I’m shooting myself in the foot a little just to make a point.