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?

beep@piefed.world · 13 hours

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

Hund@feddit.nu · 2 hours

Bring back crappy forums? Why just not continue using all the good forums that we never stopped using?

BeMoreCareful@lemmy.world · 2 hours

All mine dries up with Reddit.

CADmonkey@lemmy.world · 2 hours

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.

Pacers31Colts18@piefed.social · 3 hours

Id love to, and have been looking at different options. They all have a pretty steep monthly price point.

corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca · 3 hours

Show me a forum<->nntp proxy.

dustycups@aussie.zone · 2 minutes

Its depressing how old the posts are but:

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum/?action=search&amp%3Bq=nntp

Harry@lemmy.world · 5 hours

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

BrightCandle@lemmy.world · 8 hours

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 · 10 hours

Buddy, we’re on one right now.

Hund@feddit.nu · 2 hours

This is social media. Not forums.

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 2 hours

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…

PattyMcB@lemmy.world · 4 hours

Bless your heart

floquant@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 7 hours

Staff@piefed.world · 6 hours

Never used forums much other than necessary to be honest.

mjr@infosec.pub · 11 hours

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

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 10 hours

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

bluGill@fedia.io · 10 hours

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 · 12 hours

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

Hund@feddit.nu · 2 hours

Threadiverse? Is that a spelling mistake?

Feathercrown@lemmy.world · 2 hours

No, it’s the part of the Fediverse that uses this thread-based format

FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io · 10 hours

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

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?

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