Comment by taopai
1 year ago
Good old forums.
I am lucky I found one in my own language recently. We are a small community, like 250 active users. Most of it is joking, having a blast, and insulting. It's very funny.
For me forums are the best of internet. I don't consider reddit a forum because it has an opaque algorithm. Hackernews is great, but it's threads are very short lived, and it's to big to be a functional traditional forum.
This is what I associate with my best days online. Good old threaded message boards with persistent conversations.
They're not completely dead but there are fewer than there were. And newer forum software like Discourse that tries to mimic Reddit or StackOverflow is not the same.
I always disliked forums. With the groups very tight nit, elitist, and only referring to some garbage search function.