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> Yeah, where actually have forums gone? "Stop necroposting! You have been warned" "You have to login to search" "You need to wait for an administrator to con

> Yeah, where actually have forums gone? "Stop necroposting! You have been warned" "You have to login to search" "You need to wait for an administrator to confirm your account before you can login" "You need to have a hight reputation to post" "You cannot post in this subforum" "You haven't posted in the Newbies forum" "[missing image from TinyPic or other 3rd party hosting]" "[missing image due to 3rd party hosting quota limits]" "PMed you the solution" Yea no thanks. > But where are decentralized or just modern platforms focused on discussions, not on people? Stackexchange is one example.

zozbot234 7y ago
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nkrisc 7y ago
You've spent days, if not weeks searching for any lead on the obscure problem you're facing. You might not even be certain exactly what the problem is, but you're by now intimately familiar with its manifestation. It's clear by now you're probably the first person in ten years menaced by it. Ancient forums with broken CSS, archived mailing lists, dusty blogs; you scrape together enough relevant information to finally craft the search query that will save you, the one that will finally lead you to the result. There. It's done. The results page consists mostly of entries with nonsense text and languages you can't read, but at the top is your answer. You click it. Scanning the original post it's clear you've found your salvation. You scroll through, quicker and quicker, impatient to end it all. Almost there, to the last post. The answer you seek. But, in a flash, it's gone. "PMed you the solution"
- skocznymroczny 7y ago
  More like "Nvm, I found the problem, it's working now :)"
  - nkrisc 7y ago
    An even greater betrayal.
- sogen 7y ago
  https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
- twic 7y ago
  The great news is, you can do exactly this on Slack, too!
Grumbledour 7y ago
I think the things you describe actually have more to do with decentralization and small communities then the concept of forums in general. You can see similar weird rules and requirement on mastodon instances these days. And while they can be a deal breaker, often the same quirkiness makes communities interesting in the first place. I don't think the behavior of toxic communities is solely based on the kind of software they use.
jrootabega 7y ago
Most of that also happens on Reddit.

zozbot234 7y ago

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nkrisc 7y ago

You've spent days, if not weeks searching for any lead on the obscure problem you're facing. You might not even be certain exactly what the problem is, but you're by now intimately familiar with its manifestation. It's clear by now you're probably the first person in ten years menaced by it. Ancient forums with broken CSS, archived mailing lists, dusty blogs; you scrape together enough relevant information to finally craft the search query that will save you, the one that will finally lead you to the result. There. It's done. The results page consists mostly of entries with nonsense text and languages you can't read, but at the top is your answer. You click it. Scanning the original post it's clear you've found your salvation. You scroll through, quicker and quicker, impatient to end it all. Almost there, to the last post. The answer you seek. But, in a flash, it's gone. "PMed you the solution"

skocznymroczny 7y ago
More like "Nvm, I found the problem, it's working now :)"
- nkrisc 7y ago
  An even greater betrayal.
sogen 7y ago
https://xkcd.com/979/ https://xkcd.com/979/
twic 7y ago
The great news is, you can do exactly this on Slack, too!

Grumbledour 7y ago

I think the things you describe actually have more to do with decentralization and small communities then the concept of forums in general. You can see similar weird rules and requirement on mastodon instances these days. And while they can be a deal breaker, often the same quirkiness makes communities interesting in the first place. I don't think the behavior of toxic communities is solely based on the kind of software they use.

jrootabega 7y ago

Most of that also happens on Reddit.