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Re:8 days. 8,000 forums by Shish2k on Friday April 12, 2013 @10:34AM (#5538684)
> the goal is to keep discussion and the users on the site. This will make users come back

Back when I first got online and only had one forum I was interested in, this was true - but it really doesn't scale. Trying to keep up with even 3 active forums by visiting each in turn is painful. Since then, I've pretty much ignored any information source that doesn't have either RSS or email feeds, since I can multiplex hundreds of those with no problem :P

(For a more average-joe version of this, note how facebook has largely replaced independent forums and IRC - people are lazy, and going out of their way to check an external site on a daily basis is much more work than clicking a "like" button and having that site's news become part of their standard routine)

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Re:8 days. 8,000 forums by webwanderings on Friday April 12, 2013 @02:24PM (#5540202)
You are absolutely right hence these forums are going to constantly suffer, or they'd be taken in by marketers trying to make a buck over filthy Ads. I don't think people can have serious discussions on such forum platforms who try to appeal to everyone equally.
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