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[–] [email protected] 64 points 8 months ago (3 children)

Forums never went anywhere. It's just that the techno hipsters found something new.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Forums never went anywhere

sadly it appears that they all but have. so many projects out there decide that Discord should be the only way to discuss development, report bugs, or offer tech support.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 8 months ago

Forums didnt, but users did

[–] [email protected] 31 points 8 months ago (2 children)

Like WTF is a comment section under a post if not a type of forum?

[–] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

It is. Slack and Discord didn't kill forums, Reddit did. Because Reddit is a mega-forum. Instead of creating a specialized forum somewhere on a website you need to maintain, it's easier to just create a subreddit. Bam, new forum!

And we're discussing the disappearance of forums on a forum...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Tapatalk made all my favorite forums pretty shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Sent from my SM-G935T using Tapatalk

[–] [email protected] 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Reddit/Lemmy is like a forum, but bad. They don't have a good way to see unread additions to a thread, making long discussions impossible.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

I wonder if that is what the chat view on lemmy is for. I tried it out, but I couldn't understand how it is sorted.

It says it's sorted by new, but the post times don't seem to match that.