Yes please. I despise the trend to put everything in video format that seems to constitute “discussion” these days, along with a crappy comments section full of trolls, trash talkers, and “experts”.
Someone’s text description with a half dozen crappy photos is often 10x better than some 2-3 people having a BS session over a 15 minute video (like and subscribe!) to do 5 minutes of actual work on the subject you’re interested in.
Forum mods generally kept discussion on track, reeled in people who were deviating too far or kicked out trolls and assholes, and forums dedicated to a subject were a wealth of knowledge and attracted experts and experience.
Sure, there’s a few of those places left, and probably even a few /r/ that might have actual decent content and mods, but those tend to be the exception and not the rule.
Bring back crappy forums? Why just not continue using all the good forums that we never stopped using?
They’re crappy, because they’re not centered in one place, multiple registrations needed, no addictive algorithm.
All mine dries up with Reddit.
You could not live with your failure. And where did that bring you? Back to (Lem)my.
What I miss in the transition from forums to Reddit and Lemmy is the longer forum discussions that could go on for years. They had their issues, they regularly went off topic and resulted in insults being traded and trolling but they also got to a depth that we don’t see anymore. They were much better for getting to the detail of a thing and with Reddit/Lemmy being so focussed on today the entire discussion is gone tomorrow. The tree format is better for the branching discussion but its also got a real depth limit.
We lost something important when most of the forums shuttered. I really miss usenet for that as well, it alas didn’t evolve with the increase in spam but it could have been something still in use if it had.
I remember when reddit implimented the thread auto lock after some time, it all went downhill from there.
Buddy, we’re on one right now.
not really, much more like Usenet.
No.
Bless your heart
This is social media. Not forums.
Lemmy, Mbin, PieFed, etc, are literally just forums with voting. In fact, even some old PHPbb stuff had voting. If you think forums aren’t social media, I have news for you…
Huh. After all the Discord shite with face verification shite, me and my community (The Gamers’ Tavern) moved across to a forum first platform which also has live chat, and it has been an absolute breath of fresh air.
Bring back more forums imo
Which platform, please?
Discourse. Plenty of plugins and customisation to play about with. Self hosted, too.
Can check it out at discourse.gamerstavern.online if you like.
I used to waste so much time on ADVrider. It still exists but its a shell of its former self.
When considering a car purchase, I would first look at a forum dedicated to that car. You would find common issues easily, along with solutions.
Id love to, and have been looking at different options. They all have a pretty steep monthly price point.
What I still miss from uunet is the concept of 'I’ve already read this ’ going back to old threads is tedious because I keep re-reading the same things I did last time.
Never used forums much other than necessary to be honest.
Why haven’t more added ActivityPub & joined the fediverse or threadiverse?
They aren’t aware or they don’t care enough to add it?
Show me a forum<->nntp proxy.
Its depressing how old the posts are but:
https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/?action=search&%3Bq=nntp
The threadiverse is way better than crappy old web forums, and the centralized popular ones as well.
It has the potential to be, but it needs more communities and more people working to grow them into active places.
Threadiverse? Is that a spelling mistake?
No, it’s the part of the Fediverse that uses this thread-based format
I see. Thanks!
