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A comment on Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? by Ajef on Thursday June 30, 2022 @06:36AM (#31930710)
Notifications are just one aspect. As mentioned by others discoverability is another. An independent forum has to compete with commercial sites and well the entire www regarding search engine placement to be found.
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Re:Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? by ColonelPhantom on Thursday June 30, 2022 @07:58AM (#31931283)
That said, a lot of communities seem to be migrating to Discord as well, which has a discoverability many times worse than forums, as Discord 'servers' are not even publicly accessible.
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