You touched on some good points here in a well written way. I very much agree that “old school” forums without all the modern social media gamification are grea

You touched on some good points here in a well written way. I very much agree that “old school” forums without all the modern social media gamification are great. It seems to me this hinges on a notion of utility/purpose for the website: Technical “old school” forums (engines/code for me personally) exist for problem solving, trouble shooting, and beyond. Where social media, by definition, has a purely/predominately “social” existence. It’s unfortunate “social” on the Internet has been hijacked by user tracking and attention hijacking for ads