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Agreed. Small, decentralised communities should be the way forward. We could call them forums ;-)
by deanc 4y ago
Agreed. Small, decentralised communities should be the way forward. We could call them forums ;-)
- asynchronous 4y agoI miss forums. Discord has replaced forums in most of the communities I cared about and it’s been for the worse.
- Mezzie 4y agoI hate this, and I like Discord. Discord is a replacement for IRC/chat/AIM/other synchronous and informal conversation. It's not a replacement for forums, archives, or formal communication.
- Grimburger 4y agoDealing with opensource projects via discord is a nightmare. One I use regularly decided to escape the walled garden and move to github discussions and it's been such a boon for search. Discord is a repetitive nightmare of doing support I don't know why projects use it. The discord server still exists but questions generally don't get answered as much or if they do it's usually a link to github discussions.
- prox 4y agoSo how do you combine social network + forum? What does that look like?
- squarefoot 4y agoHeh, I just thought of an even smaller solution called newsgroups ;#)
- bcrosby95 4y agoThere is/was already a social network for that - Ning. Back when social network platforms became A Thing they adopted OpenSocial - they had a news feed, notifications, etc - but each social network was completely isolated. I haven't taken a look at Ning since I worked on social networking apps about 12 years ago, so I have no clue how they've evolved since then.