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The other side of the argument is that, when Reddit is actually doing a good job for these niche communities, is it different to the old forum culture or a disc

• dabluecaboose 3y ago
  Culturally, I'd argue no. In terms of UX and permanence, I'd argue yes. Reddit is a lot easier for someone to search after the fact and find good info, and it's a lot easier to follow individual comments on a big Reddit thread than it is to try to follow the chain-of-quotes on an old-style forum. Discord is good but it's a chat app first and foremost and it's a pain to search for esoteric information, especially since you have to be in the server in question to even search.
  • witchesindublin 3y ago
    I wonder if the solution is to develop a forum with better UX? And also with a better way to find said communities through search engines (Quora for example does a good job of getting on Google)? Though I would also argue that one of the biggest negatives about Reddit is that you can't come back to a thread later that day or another day, if you want to get your reply head then you need to respond immediately and attain a lot of upvotes. With a forum you could respond whenever you wanted and get a discussion going. And similarly forums would allow you to avoid the echochamber effect by avoiding upvotes/downvotes as everything was chronologically ordered, so it was a much more civil affair. But I agree that the chain-of-quotes is a positive about Reddit, which I think might be possible to implement/merge into a new forum design.