I’m not convinced at least half of those communities trust Reddit and Discord enough to leave forums, but then again I stopped using them mostly because I haven’t had time for those hobbies. My emulation groups are still active on forums, at least.
Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
Gointhefridge@lemm.ee 1 week ago
Forums are where I learned literally everything about technology I know now. Every hack, jailbreak, method of bypassing something, building, literally anything I’ve done around my tech hobbies. Pi hole, emulation in the late 90s, how to use Photoshop, how to run Linux from a USB, everything I’ve learned from forums. I’m sad to think that me joining certain discords help deliver the death knell to the concept of forums.
taiyang@lemmy.world 1 week ago
monarch@lemm.ee 1 week ago
a lot of them died because they never bring in new people and people leave for a variety of reasons.
tfm@europe.pub 1 week ago
How about crossposting forum post links on Lemmy? This would help to get them exposure.
skytrim@reddthat.com 1 week ago
XDA forum was that for me. Great place to start and then follow links or do more research using the keywords used in the discussions. Just helpful for things like learning if a kernel is potentially fixable or not before buying a second-hand device for a custom rom project. The new look / reorganisation of stuff annoys me though as I find it harder to find stuff than it used to be but that’s because I am using it on autopilot. I guess new users might find it attractive / easy to navigate?
melpomenesclevage@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
proudly not a part of the problem. and I fucking told everyone so at the time.
I swear my real name is cassandra, and my parents just misspelled it badly.