I’m happy to see a bit of a renaissance of forums in the last few years. Quite a few open source projects now run forums built on the Discourse engine (open-source, can be self-hosted for free). I was kinda sceptical at first, they look so different from the BBCode forums I was used to, but over time came to appreciate the features that drag the forum format into the 21st century.
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bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 1 week ago
Worrying that forums will dissappear too.
The only answer you’ll get are SKUM sponsored bullshit with embedded ads.
Remember before they destroyed the internet? Good times.
kazerniel@lemmy.world 1 week ago
melfie@lemy.lol 1 week ago
A product I use still has an old school forum. The mods asked a while back whether to switch to Discord, and the responses were a resounding “NO”. It’s nice to have discussions organized by topics with descriptive titles that are indexed by search engines and are self-hosted by each organization instead of being centrally owned and controlled.