Please Stop Closing Forums And Moving People To Discord

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Reddit has been the real forum killer more than Discord. Why pay for hosting if you can just start a subreddit for any retarded topic for free, and have a bunch of trannies mod it for you too?

I'd also add blogs to the things I wish would come back. Who wants to dig through 75 part twitter threads that end up disconnected and deleted eventually anyway? Seems like alot of investigative type blogs (sadly) moved to Twitter, and it sucks. When blogs were big the only thing I didn't like about them was it seemed like every idiot had one, but I didn't object to the format itself.
 
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Divine right to rule said:
Forums were ruined by heavy moderation and censorship, as are social media.
Discord groups atleast don't have hordes of Reddit Supermods who have their fingers in almost every subforum.
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for now.
where do you think those powertripping failures are migrating to to moderate and censor?

Dysnomia said:
Sadly, people will use discord because the website that nuked their forums tells them too. They don't think. They just click.
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biggest irony is that discord servers have a cap. imagine telling the rest of your customer base "you're full" because to decided to move to an inferior service just because it's cheaper and "hip".
 
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Can't say i miss forums, but discord isn't the proper replacement for them no matter how many half assed features they add to try and trick you(Threads for example where each one ignores the server's notification settings so you have to re set it.). Also the userbase, while not as bad as telegram which i'm pretty sure is used exclusively by hardcore dog fucker pedo furfags at this point, is filled to the brim with the same kind of trash you'd find on twitter, BUT, depending on the server, you also have reddit fedora mods to deal with as well.

It's a fucking mess.
 
One of the only nice things I'll ever say about Reddit is that if I have an obscure tech question, I can generally search for it and find a post from 7 years ago with what I need to know. You generally don't run into pajeet answers or assholes saying JFGI or linking to LMGTFY. That shit got so bad for a while that like half my searches just turned up threads of idiots saying that rather than actually answering the question.

Discord requires you to have an account to even just skim through a server, and many public ones have some kind of gate that ranges from agreeing to their TOS with a reaction, to real-life verification, before you can even see what's going on in there. It's really not well suited to serve the same purpose as forums do.
 
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Sometimes I wish I had the autistic ass interactions between younger me and the other internet assholes from the various mario fan forums I frequented in my earlier internet days archived somewhere. Brought this shit up in like 2 other threads talking about old internet shit but like god damn shits funny to me thinking about it. More or less the opposite of what the mindset of a lot of people seems to be nowadays of "oh the past was emberrassing and racist/sexist I was in a bad place in life... ERASE IT!! ERASE IT NOW!!!"
Shit like this hits me on a personal hell kinda level, just watching vidya game discussion shit shut down and replace itself with a reddit and discord. Didn't happen to the places I went they all either just died completely or got weirdly converted into a kotaku mirror site of all fucking things in the case of the big one. Viewing reddit and discord as viable replacements for hosting is dumb. Reddit runs the risk of you beng stamped out from not licking the boot of the powermods, and though Discord isn't the same as reddit, it's pretty much just skype but slightly different. There's definitely overlap between specific assholes in the big populated discord servers and reddit/twitter fuckers though.
 
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One of the things I like the most about forums is the lack of a global site ruleset, like the kind you see on reddit. While each subreddit may have its own rules, the site's own rules supercede them and can create a very similar experience no matter where you are.

Whereas individual forums allow communities to create their own rules in accordance with their members. Like how we can say nigger and tranny and faggot here without getting a PM saying "oh no, you heckin' said a nono word and we're gonna have to take away your heckin' posting priviledges OwO"
 
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BootlegPopeye said:
I'd also add blogs to the things I wish would come back. Who wants to dig through 75 part twitter threads that end up disconnected and deleted eventually anyway? Seems like alot of investigative type blogs (sadly) moved to Twitter, and it sucks. When blogs were big the only thing I didn't like about them was it seemed like every idiot had one, but I didn't object to the format itself.
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Even worse, I know a few blogs that moved to Instagram and Facebook pages. Why would you take your time writing a text when you can just post a photo of your ass and a bunch of emojis?
And the blogs that I follow that still remain are full of ads and have 1000-word articles for a topic that could probably summed up in 100.
Those pesky ads have ruined the internet.
 
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There are a few good blogs left, but a lot of my complaint has to do with people who are on Twitter making long Twitter threads that would definitely be better on a blog easier to read less susceptible to being deleted or banned, etc.

I like that type of micro journalism that blogs used to cater to, it wouldn't be enough for a full on internet news site but they were good for niche interests. I have had others tell me that sub stack is somewhat a return to the old blog format, but it's still a centralized product that eventually there will be complaints for content reasons and people will be removed just the same as any other social media platform.
 
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And oh my fucking god the ads.

Discord is still pretty chill (STILL), but reddit? That shit bombards you with adds from all sides and even disguises it as actual content...
 
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A Logging Company said:
Substack and it's idea of a paid subscriber news letter is basically the replacement for blogging.
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Yes, though I still maintain that it's fatal flaw is the centralization, which will lead to censoring of content eventually. A thousand flowers are blooming now, but that is because the platform is relatively new, sort of like how Twitter and reddit used to be.

For things that are too niche to monetize, independent blogs are still the way to go and I applaud anyone who stuck with them.
 
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maybe because the comment trees of the classic forums suck. i can't check the replies of of a particular comment in goddamn 2021
 
AmpleApricots said:
Discord is basically proprietary IRC for corpo webshits. I never understood the draw.
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It's literally Slack for gamers. Slack, of course, being the proprietary IRC for corporate internal comms and software developer types.
 
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