> hard for me to envision what the next iteration on Reddit could be
You mention it in your post. It's Discord. We're looping back to IRC. Give forums another 5 years or so
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by mrguyorama on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:37PM
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"Discourse" and "Discord" are two different products. One a slack like chat app for gaming, the other is a forum software produced by that guy from stack overflow
Aye, the parent mentioned both. I don't think discourse looks much like IRC but to confirm I did mean to type discord, the voice chatty one.
Forums (Discourse) are probably next up when we remember forums have great SEO benefits and discord none
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by Joseph-Stalin on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:10PM
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discord and twitter, everything is just a messy ocean of piss imo, discord is not an iteration on reddit, maybe some people prefer discord to reddit but it is far from a replacement. It's a big JS-heavy chatroom (almost like new reddit...).
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by andrewflnr on Tuesday December 22, 2020 @02:58PM
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Hmm. Ok, if we're agreed on that, maybe don't use "did you ever pitch a solution?" as a putdown.
For example, I was pleasantly surprised to see Discourse have so much success and high profile roll outs (like Boing Boing and Blizzard). It turns out that everyone was ready for a modern revitalization of the forum experience, not that forums were doomed.
I think I'd liken it to the explosion of Slack/Discord popularity. It would have been a mistake to look at the slow death of IRC and conclude "I guess people don't like chatting anymore."