> In some collecting forums, there are threads that are over a decade old — and still active, each with a wealth of information about one very specific subject.

> In some collecting forums, there are threads that are over a decade old — and still active, each with a wealth of information about one very specific subject. Yes! This is why it's so sad to see these being taken over by Facebook groups, which really really sucks at this type of thing. Even threads running for a week or two are horrible UI/UX-wise. > It is also not suitable to automatically lock/cull old threads on these forums. This is a really bad feature of Reddit. Say, when I'm searching for a solution to something I often stumble upon a related Reddit thread, which in the majority of cases is locked due to being older than 6 months. In these cases I could've chimed in after finding the solution elsewhere, but now these threads remain stupid and useless forever. Centralization is good in the regard that I already have a Reddit account so I don't have to sign up to a new forum to post (in those rare cases the post is not locked). But then again there are modern solutions to simplify this as well (Sign in with X).