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As someone who never understood the appeal of Twitter or Facebook, the new wave of FOSS social apps feels very alien to me. Forums felt like writing emails in
by matthew-wegner 4y ago
As someone who never understood the appeal of Twitter or Facebook, the new wave of FOSS social apps feels very alien to me.
Forums felt like writing emails in the open.
Twitter felt like texting in the open.
Not sure what the next thing will be! I say this as someone with 1k+ posts on multiple forums (essentially archived at this point).
- lolinder 4y ago> Forums felt like writing emails in the open. Actually, most of my favorite forums were only accessible if you registered, which in several cases required an invite. So it was less like writing letters in the open and much more like getting together with my bowling buddies or whatever. Just a group of friends who you hang out with from time to time.
- matthew-wegner 4y agoInteresting! I usually see forums with hidden sections for long-time members, whether that was by registration time, post count, or manual addition. TIGForums has a fun forum section you can actually see with 0 posts (registered) and then again at a much higher post count. It vanishes as soon you do you first post. I more meant "email" for content length, at least with my personal experience--forum posts were more like longer letter/email lengths, and Twitter felt more like texting with shorter notes (huge twitter threads aside).
- oefrha 4y agoIt depends on the forum. I used to chat on a fully public forum with a few friends (whom I never met outside the forum) back in the 2000s. A couple hundred posts a night was typical, each post on par with or even shorter than a typical tweet. We never moved to an IM for some reason.