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[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 9 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

There’s a reason nobody uses forums anymore and it’s because static content feels and is extremely dated

Nah, it's more because they want everything in the same place. Reddit and Discord became the "internet forum" - 1 account, 1 site/app, every community and discussion you need. Same for Roblox

The other reason is the dopamine hit of endless doomscrolling. If you think about it, most online interaction is: upvoting/liking, commenting, sharing; which I would argue is just a bare minimum of interactivity.

[–] GraveyardOrbit@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Reddit and discord are both rich web applications…

[–] ICastFist@programming.dev 2 points 1 hour ago

Of the two, only discord actually really needs javascript to work as intended on a browser. Reddit, though? It's still a static web forum, you don't lose much browsing old.reddit instead of www.reddit.

Besides, I never argued those two are not "rich web applications", my point was that "static web content looks dated" wasn't the main driver for people to move into centralized platforms.