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A big part of Reddit's success has been the ability for any user to create a new subreddit for any topic. And a big part of the SomethingAwful forums' success h
by Nition 10y ago
A big part of Reddit's success has been the ability for any user to create a new subreddit for any topic. And a big part of the SomethingAwful forums' success has been having subforums for a whole lot of different general topics.
I wonder why no-one's made a forum site where anyone can create subforums the way reddit does subreddits (or have they?). There are still major benefits to proper chronological forum-type discussion, but forums for different things are spread in small groups all over the Internet and you have to discover, learn the interface, and sign up for every one separately.
I don't know if you could also make it a paid service like the SA forums in this day and age, but the $10 entry sure kept the site running and kept the spam and some of the idiots out as well (particularly since if you got banned you had to pay another $10 to come back).
- xor1 10y agoThey have, it's a private gamefaqs spinoff that's slowly dying ever since Megaupload shut down, since all of the site's content was hosted there. There are less than 300 active users at any given time when it used to peak at 10k. I'd be surprised if people are still posting a year from now. I hope the software gets open-sourced by the creator because it's the best forum I've ever used UX wise. I personally stopped using it a year ago.
- csydas 10y agoLlamaguy:) already did source the core of it. I don't know if tags were included, but a large majority of it was there, and Tiko was working to replicate the other functionality awhile back too; not sure what happened with it though. He had a prototype where you could have a board up and running and make your own tags, etc. I think livelinks still didn't work at the time.