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something i've never been quite clear on: were web forums killed, or merely eclipsed? social media brought many more people online; the demographics changed, by
by disconcision 8y ago
something i've never been quite clear on: were web forums killed, or merely eclipsed? social media brought many more people online; the demographics changed, by orders of magnitude. certainly the old stalwarts you mentioned have dwindled (though are still active), but while doing searches i will still run into active webforums on speciality topics; perhaps ironically i feel these are more likely for non-tech topics
- kalleboo 8y agoI agree that forums aren't "dead" - there's tones of very active forums in all kinds of niches. I meant more in the way that they're no longer where the largest growth is.
- flashman 8y agoI ran the kind of mid-sized forum that catered to an active community of posters and a casual community that showed up for topic-related content (i.e. from search engines). But because most of what we were sharing was either links to news elsewhere, or shitposts, there was no reason to keep using the forum once Twitter went mainstream. I think this was probably the case for many similar communities. If you are utterly massive, your forum is probably still alive.