It's quietly enabling all of the best topic/product/niche-specific commmunities out there. https://discourse.mcneel.com as an example is a thriving treasure trove for CAD/Nurbs/product modelers/architects/etc.
Truth is, for me, I just don't use it - it's as bad as Slack IMO, but I'm sure that a lot of people are finding it worthwhile
* Topics are sorted the exact same way as a BB, by default. * Posts have all the usual multimedia features. * The search actually works. * It's super fast and minimal.
I'm generally curious what your UX frustrations are here...
2. When you try to Ctrl-F search it hijacks it with the server side search, it is slower than the browser search. It also does not reliably default to search in this thread, and sometimes fails to find content that's on screen even.
3. The WIP reply draft is synced across all your tabs, which can be obnoxious if you're trying to read one post to reply in another topic based on its contents.
Glad most forums use xenforo.
Terrible, terrible system that should've already been replaced by static html + htmx.
Yes - it's all the sites that people link to on reddit :-P
For the record, there's something happening to all the big Social Media sites over the last few years
IRC/Freenode - dead, replaced by Libera, but not nearly as vibrant as its heyday
Twitter - dying, replaced by Mastodon, Bluesky, and Instagram, none of them really capture the magic that was twitter, Bluesky feels a lot like Google+, Mastodon is regularly policed by people demanding that people not act like it's twitter.. and Instagram is for kids...
Facebook - seems to be dying, they've blown things with their advertising model, and the automagic content moderation is/was also a fail (it either judges everyone far too harshly, or not at all), the users are heading to FB's other sites (Instagram) or Tik Tok
Reddit - dying (but is this temporary?), being replaced by Lobsters, Hacker News, maybe more
Tik Tok - facing serious regulatory challenges in Europe and the US.
It's inevitable that things will die/change, I do find it really interesting that the big ones from the last decade are all suddenly finding themselves on the outer.
One of the exceptions is YouTube, which faced serious competition from the likes of Tik Tok, but still appears to be generating content/high readership, and seems largely immune to the absolute garbage that's been uploaded over the past few years (conspiracy nuts, politics, etc)