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Re:Are forum platforms dead? by PaulHoule on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:20PM (#32171702)
Discord? I dread "subscribe to my discord". The average discord seems to have 780 rooms but only 3 people logged in, they are kinda like zombies except that the word "brains" has 5 letters too many for them to handle.
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Re:Are forum platforms dead? by theshrike79 on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @04:38PM (#32171958)
Ironically the same thing used to be true for forums :)

Someone really enthusiastically started a forum, added 420 different sub-areas and sub-forums. All of which have a maximum of 1-10 posts. Most of them by the forum admin.

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Re:Are forum platforms dead? by joemi on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @05:24PM (#32172548)
Not only that but there seems to be a MUCH worse signal-to-noise ratio in every discord I've ever seen (when compared to forums), due to the more chat-like nature of the platform.
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Re:Are forum platforms dead? by geekbird on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @06:19PM (#32173164)
Seriously. One discord that I am unfortunately on has one person who just drivels on and on and on. But I can't mute him, and he does this even on channels that are the whole reason that I bother with it. Apparently there is little or no moderation possible, so everyone has to put up with his train of though word vomit.
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Re:Are forum platforms dead? by charcircuit on Wednesday July 20, 2022 @07:10PM (#32173626)
It's not like IRC or forums are any better in regard to inactive accounts.
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