A new small community getting critical mass is more difficult nowadays, because so many people are accessing the social internet primarily through mobile phones

A new small community getting critical mass is more difficult nowadays, because so many people are accessing the social internet primarily through mobile phones. That means that a lot of people expect a ready-made app, and navigating through a web browser to e.g. a phpBB forum and signing up for an account there seems too burdensome. Then, because of the limitations of phone keyboards (even for those who boast of their touch-typing skills), discussion tends to get shorter and less information-dense. If you look at Reddit posting on some special-interest from six years ago, people were typically offering a couple of solid paragraphs. Now, most people there are writing one-line comments, and if you write the length I’m writing now, you look out of place. (People might even say "lol wall of text bro").