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There is still usenet groups, forums and email lists around. Those technologies have existed for decades and are optimised for user happiness/utility, not user
by tomjen3 7y ago
There is still usenet groups, forums and email lists around. Those technologies have existed for decades and are optimised for user happiness/utility, not user engagement (drastically different and all the fancy facebook measurement only gives you engagement).
- h2odragon 7y ago> optimised for user happiness/utility, obviously not. They were optimised for the conditions that existed at the time, which included limited bandwidth and intermittent connections, which are no longer realistic limits. Usenet was wonderful and still has many pockets of wonderful in it; but even I who cut my teeth hacking UUCP to WWIV gateways and such want nothing to do with setting up a modern NNTP impementation. I don't pretend to have the answers to "how do we make a usenet analog happen again?" but the remnants of antiquated forums don't effectively argue against the need for trying new forms of forum.