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It definitely is one of the great victories of the commercial internet (in “mobile” 2023 sans web for the most part, mind you). BBS like systems and forums had
by musha68k 3y ago
It definitely is one of the great victories of the commercial internet (in “mobile” 2023 sans web for the most part, mind you).
BBS like systems and forums had been successfully in use since the early 70s. Usenet is more than 40 years old by now IIRC? Very similar function and open by design.
Even without falling into “Endless September” rose tinted glasses I would argue that we really, really could do a whole lot better in 2023 and going forward.
I guess someone must work on Ted Nelson’s ideas at least (Xanadu, etc)?
- rrdharan 3y agoHow so? I thought they had terrible monetization?
- nomel 3y agoThat's generally a good thing, from the user perspective.
- bcrosby95 3y agoReddit most closely reminds me of ezboard: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ezboard
- Scoundreller 3y agoOr proboards: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProBoards https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/ProBoards But Reddit is really bad at long on-going conversations unless it has enough to support its own subreddit. Car maintenance forums are something I feel doesn’t work well on the Reddit system. Or anything you’d want chronological or heavy in-like image/video embedding
- officeplant 3y agoToo bad so many older car forum posts are useless outside of their text now. Everywhere you go its just large swaths of photobucket/cardomain embed failures for the forums that didn't do image hosting.