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No, the 1-2 punch of Reddit and Discord have all but decimated the old vBulletin forum days. If you have a niche interest, Reddit and Discord are pretty much th

No, the 1-2 punch of Reddit and Discord have all but decimated the old vBulletin forum days. If you have a niche interest, Reddit and Discord are pretty much the only place to find a community for it. It's very dominant in that space now. I'm pretty much forced to use Reddit or else disconnect from communities I'm interested in.

LightMachine 5y ago
How do you find Discord servers for a specific interest?
- david_allison 5y ago
  Typically from the subreddit
  - optimalsolver 5y ago
    Something something circle of life.
- stu2b50 5y ago
  Word of mouth, on Reddit (sidebars or sticky posts), and ocassionally just googling "X Discord". Some very niche things, like character mains in video games, usually will only have a discord to my frustration.
- dceddia 5y ago
  I stumbled upon Disboard recently, a site that aggregates/categorizes Discord servers and lets you search them. https://disboard.org/ https://disboard.org/
throw_m239339 5y ago
> No, the 1-2 punch of Reddit and Discord have all but decimated the old vBulletin forum days. If you have a niche interest, Reddit and Discord are pretty much the only place to find a community for it. It's very dominant in that space now. You missed the point. Reddit redesign is ensuring everybody flocks back to a more readable form of social media that does not look like reddit redesign.
- daveoc64 5y ago
  I was reading yesterday about how "Old Reddit" is often used by a tiny proportion of users (~5%) and the vast majority of users are using a mobile app to access it. This varies by subreddit, of course, but anything with mainstream appeal is likely to have most users on mobile web or an app.
  - weswpg 5y ago
    I wonder which percentage of the most active users are among those who choose to do that (versus the casual users who only spend less than five minutes on the website).
- stu2b50 5y ago
  I wish - there does not seem to be anything that fulfills Reddit's niche that is taking up significant marketshare.

LightMachine 5y ago

How do you find Discord servers for a specific interest?

david_allison 5y ago
Typically from the subreddit
- optimalsolver 5y ago
  Something something circle of life.
stu2b50 5y ago
Word of mouth, on Reddit (sidebars or sticky posts), and ocassionally just googling "X Discord". Some very niche things, like character mains in video games, usually will only have a discord to my frustration.
dceddia 5y ago
I stumbled upon Disboard recently, a site that aggregates/categorizes Discord servers and lets you search them. https://disboard.org/ https://disboard.org/

throw_m239339 5y ago

> No, the 1-2 punch of Reddit and Discord have all but decimated the old vBulletin forum days. If you have a niche interest, Reddit and Discord are pretty much the only place to find a community for it. It's very dominant in that space now. You missed the point. Reddit redesign is ensuring everybody flocks back to a more readable form of social media that does not look like reddit redesign.

daveoc64 5y ago
I was reading yesterday about how "Old Reddit" is often used by a tiny proportion of users (~5%) and the vast majority of users are using a mobile app to access it. This varies by subreddit, of course, but anything with mainstream appeal is likely to have most users on mobile web or an app.
- weswpg 5y ago
  I wonder which percentage of the most active users are among those who choose to do that (versus the casual users who only spend less than five minutes on the website).
stu2b50 5y ago
I wish - there does not seem to be anything that fulfills Reddit's niche that is taking up significant marketshare.