Re:Internet Forums Reimagined: The Future Of Online Discussions
by NelsonMinar on Sunday May 26, 2013 @11:10AM
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It seems inevitable to me that Google is going to shut down Google Groups or else fold it into Google+ in some unpleasant way. Maybe when that free option is taken off the table there will be more room for a commercial solution.
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Re:Internet Forums Reimagined: The Future Of Online Discussions
by ccera on Sunday May 26, 2013 @04:24PM
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Google Groups is used by such a tiny number of people, and has such a poverty of functionality, that I'm fairly certain it has no measurable effect in suppressing innovation in this area.
Whatever reasons there might be for why forums/discussions aren't getting any better, the existence of Google Groups is not one of them.
Re:Internet Forums Reimagined: The Future Of Online Discussions
by freework on Monday May 27, 2013 @03:17AM
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Google Groups is probably still the most popular hosted Usenet client. Back when I was using Usenet for discussion (2005ish), almost everyone who was still using usenet was using it via Google Groups.
By the way, Google Groups used to have a great UI but over the last fre years they've changed around the design and it is horrible now.