What are we going to do about it?
Sorry for the Google Translate Link. An easy alternative is much appreciated.
Yeah, forums were pretty cool!
Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying.
Submitted 1 month ago by tfm@europe.pub to fediverse@lemmy.world
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Tag365@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Yeah especially when Teddit or discord flip the script but Reddit’s semi implosion could have led to a resurgence if their Admins hadn’t calmed down
vermaterc@lemmy.ml 1 month ago
Is talking on Lemmy ok?
ivanafterall@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Kindly refrain.
tfm@europe.pub 1 month ago
What do you mean?
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Are there good alternatives?
I feel like forums really fell behind the times, with shitty threading systems and awkward text formatting interfaces and the horror that is bbcode.
Meanwhile discord handles image embedding gracefully, with markdown formatting and previews.
What’s the next-gen forum system that’s keeping up with modern times? Is there a part of the fediverse that meets this?
Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open, let alone federated.
tfm@europe.pub 1 month ago
Discourse seems the most modern, but not sure if it is open
It’s fully open source.
let alone federated.
It’s still experimental but they are working on it.
Hawke@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Awesome. That seems like the way to go then!
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net 1 month ago
Xenforo seems decent but it’s proprietary
TragicJonson@lemm.ee 1 month ago
Let’s hope the resurrection of Digg starts to fill this void.
Auli@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
Digg well just be another reddit. I don’t expect VC Rose to be the saviour.
HugeNerd@lemmy.ca 1 month ago
It’s called Usenet.
zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
The big problem with web forums was dealing with spam.
Also, one thing this article overlooked is that X is no longer indexed by Google, because you’re required to log in to read most things.
tfm@europe.pub 1 month ago
xcancel.com to the rescue! Simply replace x.com with xcancel.com and see everything and don’t give them a single piece of data.
iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Reddit (and Lemmy/Mbin) is just a kind of forum.
TrojanRoomCoffeePot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Am I mistaken in saying that the new Reddit/Lemmy format of forum is to message boards, as message boards was to BBS?
tfm@europe.pub 1 month ago
And still is Reddit by far the biggest. How can we change that?