Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord

Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by logicalmonster on Thursday September 16, 2021 @10:26AM (#28552236)

Some of the best chats I've ever had have been on niche Internet Message Boards using some of the worst technology run by people who didn't understand how to run a website. But the communities were so tight-knit and dedicated to their conversation topic and produced brilliant and entertaining ideas.

And sadly most modern search engines don't rank these conversations highly in searches. There's a treasure trove of unbelievable hidden ideas out there that you'll never come across because search algorithms prioritize garbage, corporate churned content.

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by Karrot_Kream on Thursday September 16, 2021 @12:58PM (#28554229)

Indeed. I think the technology is somewhat orthogonal to the community, but it's the community that's important. A lot of technical people equate the two. (Though there are definitely technical and systemic benefits to more open standards than Discord, even if that doesn't necessarily help the community.)

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Re:Please stop closing forums and moving people to Discord by stjohnswarts on Friday September 17, 2021 @03:10AM (#28562202)

conversations (in the past) were so much easier to join, find, and review. I wish my company had a bbedit forum instead of slack :)

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