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Even in the mid 90s there were more newsgroups than you could meaningfully keep track of, and thousands of messages a day on popular topics. Sadly message thre
by angry_octet 4y ago
Even in the mid 90s there were more newsgroups than you could meaningfully keep track of, and thousands of messages a day on popular topics.
Sadly message threading has only gotten worse since that time, and now conversations are incredibly shallow, commonly being restricted to a single reply.
Twitter copied thread forking as re-tweets, and blocklists, but hashtags are too amorphous to be compared to newsgroups. Instead it's like having the latest message from every thread and newsgroup delivered in one thread.
- rightbyte 4y agoI am really hopeful because I have seen some resurgence of classic forums. The meme-ification and Karma hoarding of e.g. Reddit does not seem to cater adults very much. And Facebook groups are still bad as a forum replacement and only had their strength when "everyone" used Facebook.