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I really hope it's not Discord... Discord is screaming to be next to go public and throw everything free out and then you will have to do everything all over ag

by foepys 3y ago

I really hope it's not Discord... Discord is screaming to be next to go public and throw everything free out and then you will have to do everything all over again. Forums before the mid-2000s were pretty cool.

flomo 3y ago
> Forums before the mid-2000s were pretty cool. Largely because the internet before the mid-2000s was a fairly decent place to be. Some of those old forums are still running, and are still way more intelligent than reddit. But I would guess a large percentage succumbed to attacks from spammers, ddos, seo stuffers, etc, until the admins decided it wasn't worth it. Oh almost all of them had their password db hacked at some point, whether they told you or not, which pushes people to centralized services.
busterarm 3y ago
Maybe massive online services shouldn't be totally free? You say forums before the mid-2000s were pretty cool, but Something Awful is still going and has always been $10. I really don't want to be the product anymore. I would gladly pay for a good service with reasonable moderation. I'm paying for Discord right now, even.
- yieldcrv 3y ago
  I think its a good question in principle, as it may spark introspection and innovation In practice in the present its understood that this is an uneconomical idea Maybe its free APIs that are a zero interest rate phenomenom
bryceacc 3y ago
am I using discord wrong? I see it as a chat and voice client, reddit has wiki's and posts... I have no idea how to discover old content that has been posted in discord besides searching but that's not really "discovering" in my mind. I can scroll through some top posts of all time in a subreddit to see what it's all about. How do you do that in discord right after joining a server?
tankerkiller 3y ago
There is modern forum software out there, and I for one am not opposed to going back to that model. (I run a forum, and for awhile was a code contributor for one of the modern forum softwares)

by foepys 3y ago

flomo 3y ago

> Forums before the mid-2000s were pretty cool. Largely because the internet before the mid-2000s was a fairly decent place to be. Some of those old forums are still running, and are still way more intelligent than reddit. But I would guess a large percentage succumbed to attacks from spammers, ddos, seo stuffers, etc, until the admins decided it wasn't worth it. Oh almost all of them had their password db hacked at some point, whether they told you or not, which pushes people to centralized services.

busterarm 3y ago

Maybe massive online services shouldn't be totally free? You say forums before the mid-2000s were pretty cool, but Something Awful is still going and has always been $10. I really don't want to be the product anymore. I would gladly pay for a good service with reasonable moderation. I'm paying for Discord right now, even.

yieldcrv 3y ago
I think its a good question in principle, as it may spark introspection and innovation In practice in the present its understood that this is an uneconomical idea Maybe its free APIs that are a zero interest rate phenomenom

bryceacc 3y ago

am I using discord wrong? I see it as a chat and voice client, reddit has wiki's and posts... I have no idea how to discover old content that has been posted in discord besides searching but that's not really "discovering" in my mind. I can scroll through some top posts of all time in a subreddit to see what it's all about. How do you do that in discord right after joining a server?

tankerkiller 3y ago

There is modern forum software out there, and I for one am not opposed to going back to that model. (I run a forum, and for awhile was a code contributor for one of the modern forum softwares)