Yeah, the classic forum model makes it almost impossible to have a conversation. The problem is that r*dditors have super fucking dumb conversations.
This is it. I don't use discord (much) for this reason. Strictly linear conversations are for interactions between two people.
It's alright for small groups of like 20-30 people, but anything past that it's unsustainable. Like reading a fucking chyron.
Also impossible to browse of you missed the start of the conversation as the scrolling quickly becomes infinite.
Yeah, nesting comments is way better than anything any other sites try to offer.
This reminded me of this one time I went on the AOL chat, met someone who also liked soccer, and added him to MSN Messenger. I opened the convo with "I'm the 11 year old boy you met in AOL chat" and got instantly blocked, probably because I sounded like an FBI agent lmao.
Yes turn on all functionality removed from the site before launch and let us descend into 8 months worth of compounded code entropy and self-immolation.
Y'all gonna know my mood in grunge music lyrics like it's 2004
getting one of the 10 people decent at photoshop on the forum to make you a sig
holy fuck please take me back, life was good
Take me back to the days of signatures being so large it took a full scroll to get past.
I think the only real difference between old school forums and link aggregator forums in practice is that forums tended to be more niche and have smaller tight nit communities while reddit is a big tent of toxicity.
while true, the gamification is no less possible on a bulletin board just less likely to occur on a smaller site.
Most forums don't have karma/upvotes attached to everything (AFAIK)
I miss the internet before every little page, comment, etc. had a like button
This is the case with every new technology, the early culture is always dominated by the techbro early adopters. Reddit itself is a notable example.
I hope lemmy can evolve from this state but I think it probably needs a dig exodus like event to break through.
Why do people keep talking about bringing feds to my leftist forums? What's next? A forum UN?
I wish comments were like a forum's. How an I supposed to know if someone commented on a response to my comment? What if conversation develops after I check a post and I miss it?
yeah, I wish this site would improve on reddit a little. There's a browser add-on called Reddit Enhancement Suite that shows you how many new comments are in a thread you've already visited, lets you filter so that comments you've already seen are greyed out, etc. and I don't understand why that shit isn't just built into reddit after all these years. or how I'm realistically supposed to keep up with a busy thread without that kind of add-on.
join a private tracker. they still have lively forums and will remind you how bad they are
Respectfully disagree. I'm an old man in my late 30s, and I used message boards a lot before reddit. They sucked. Yeah, reddit does allow for more hivemind behavior with the upvotes but you don't know frustration until you're reading a post you're interested in and two posters start flinging shit at each other and you have to wade through it all just so you can read up on the stuff you actually want to. Even if reddit sucks the reddit model is superior.
Having never been a part of the culture of traditional forums, whenever google serves me up results that force me to go to one the experience is nightmarish. They are difficult to navigate, conversations are hard to follow, there's usually some ugly-ass design or giant neon words for no reason. And signatures are awful. I'm on a blacksmithing forum that has been functionally defunct since 2005 try to understand the mystery that is hitting a hot piece of metal with a hammer and I gotta read some jackoffs 18 paragraph signature which includes some bullshit that was copied from a chain letter, a needless declaration of his or her love of America and freedom, a cutesy reference in family-safe terms about how good he or she fucks his or her wife, some tiny bullshit GIFs, and then probably some ASCII art of a moose. And this asshole replies to at least half of the comments in a thread so that the thread is more his or her signature than it is the actual content, which half the time ends up never being resolved in the first place.
On top of all that, from what I've seen, those forums could be just as toxic as Reddit, just usually small and insular in a way that subreddits rarely are.
On the other hand, I feel like if bulletin boards were all there was I'd probably spend way less time surfing the net.
Instead, I petition that we contract an impartial alien race to destroy all forms of social media, forums included, and replace most of the internet with a non-partisan, unbiased encyclopedia of all human knowledge and history.
