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Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them? (tedium.co)
submitted 7 hours ago by beep@piefed.world to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1234765/bring-back-crappy-forums-web-forums-were-rough-around-the-edges-and-faded-in-relevance-a

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[–] Staff@piefed.world 1 points 57 minutes ago

Never used forums much other than necessary to be honest.

[–] BrightCandle@lemmy.world 6 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago)

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.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 15 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Buddy, we're on one right now.

[–] mjr@infosec.pub 3 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Why haven't more added ActivityPub & joined the fediverse or threadiverse?

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 1 points 4 hours ago

They aren't aware or they don't care enough to add it?

[–] bluGill@fedia.io 2 points 4 hours ago

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.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The threadiverse is way better than crappy old web forums, and the centralized popular ones as well.

[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 4 points 4 hours ago

It has the potential to be, but it needs more communities and more people working to grow them into active places.