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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by netsharc on Thursday November 19, 2020 @10:58AM (#25150759)
And the Facebook UI really hates conversations. There are only 1-deep threads, if a post has hundreds of replies you see maybe 5 (Facebook will say they're the "Most relevant" because probably the amount of Likes) and you have to click "Load more comments" dozens of times to try to read all the responses. Add to that people just commenting with their friends' names (tagging them) to notify those friends about the conversation, because they don't know about the "copy link" or "Share this comment" features...
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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by rbritton on Thursday November 19, 2020 @12:06PM (#25151576)
Occasionally I stumble on a Facebook thread that allows multiple tiers, and I'm not sure what the enabler for that is. I'd love to see that extended to all threads even if I would vastly prefer a true forum over their groups.
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Re:As internet forums die off, finding community can be hard... by newsbinator on Friday November 20, 2020 @01:03AM (#25157719)
My pet peeve is the people that comment “following” or simply “F” because they don’t know they can subscribe to notifications on the post with 2 clicks.
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