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insert old man yells at cloud meme (just having a laugh) My least favorite part about forums is having to create a new account for every single forum I want to
by Nezteb 5y ago
insert old man yells at cloud meme (just having a laugh)
My least favorite part about forums is having to create a new account for every single forum I want to access.
Sure, password managers make it easy to have hundreds of different accounts on different sites, but I just don’t want to do that because it makes everything feel clunky and disconnected.
Sure, most have Google/Twitter/GitHub logins available, but some don’t which only makes me think “wait did I use Google or Twitter to sign into this forum last time?”.
Discord has three things I like: a single account, infinite chat history, and the ability to star/favorite messages that are relevant to me for future reference. Those are all I really need to consider it a useful platform for forum-like discourse.
Speaking of that, some forum software like Discourse (and it’s mobile app, Discourse Hub) and Forem make it easier to consolidate tons of disparate forums, but any time I’m on an old phpBB or vBulletin site I usually don’t even bother making an account.