I miss forums. You could talk about a subject, and people you don't already know would join in with different opinions - more or less intelligently, more or le

I miss forums. You could talk about a subject, and people you don't already know would join in with different opinions - more or less intelligently, more or less civilly, depending on the forum and its moderators. They had sophisticated ways of tracking where you were on each topic or sub-forum and showing you only the new content. There's nothing that checks all of those boxes any more. What forums are left are full of trolls, or they're severely topic-limited, or their interfaces are absolutely unusable. I follow literally hundreds of sites, mostly via RSS, and all of them together yield maybe one comment thread a month worth participating in. So people turn to Facebook, only to find that they can't pierce the walls of their own private echo chamber to get the kind of conversations that used to be everywhere - from Usenet to BBSes to M-Net and its ilk to any number of Invision/vBulletin forums. The OP might be incoherent, but the point that the internet isn't a real communications medium any more has a certain truth to it.