Comment by epolanski

OT but I'll include my usual rant.

I hate these socials. While some posts here and there are interesting, I'll still have to read people's thoughts on politics, what they ate for lunch or how was their vacation in Vietnam. I wish you could only read the authors you follow on the topics you care, but the algorithms don't work like that, and they post about anything.

On the other hand, more in-topic focused boards like HN and Reddit, value short-term visibility over depth. Sure, at least you're only discussing one topic at a time, but how much insights or reflections can you have when discussions die in 24 hours?

Say what you want, but good old vBulletin-like forums are peak internet discussions.

Like how in the world can you compete for insightful-deep topic discussions with something like a plain old forum?

Where in the world can you find so much information, e.g. about the Mercedes W211 E class?

https://mbworld.org/forums/e-class-w211-20/

I with there were places to discuss, e.g., a specific technology (sometimes github issues are a surrogate), or software design philosophy in general (the mail group of Jon Ousterhout is again, just a surrogate).

But these places just don't exist.

Even more at work, companies would benefit from having long term discussions and threads about product, technologies, etc. Instead we spreading (and forgetting) the same information over and over with teams, slack, jira, issues, conflunce, sync-calls. ugh