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Honestly looking for information about hobbies is horrible nowadays. It's all first and foremost subreddit, which has mostly memes and no info except maybe a st

Honestly looking for information about hobbies is horrible nowadays. It's all first and foremost subreddit, which has mostly memes and no info except maybe a sticky, THEN you find a discord link there, and finally all the knowledge is organized in google docs spreadsheet, that's in some random pinned post in some weirdly named channel. I miss the days of the forum and wikis, it was vastly easier to search and lurk. and now you need a multiple accounts to even find that information.

bibabaloo 3y ago
What sort of hobbies are you talking about specifically? Not to doubt you, but I must have very different hobbies because I've never experienced something like this
- dopidopHN 3y ago
  Hackaton in my city, geocaching, fucking origami. Hiking. I do miss phpBB forum with the curated read only section, the lore of important post that all the forum has read and so on
- jerojero 3y ago
  This is a big problem in the origami community. The forums have died and have been replaced with discord, it's become pretty inaccessible so I imagine it's the same for other niche hobbies.
- meetingthrower 3y ago
  Have you ever used an old school forum? Threaded posts, which can be pinned. So much easier to navigate than the stream of discord comments. I admit, I am 50 now so maybe I'm just old and don't understand discord...
  - baud147258 3y ago
    you can sorta do that with discord, with either pinned messages in threads or just a thread that contains the intro posts and that's closed for further comments, so you can easily find what you look for
- Xelbair 3y ago
  fighting games for example. it used to be that you could find a wiki with all the frame data, bnb combos and character specific tips/guidelines, and move analysis. now it's spread on character specific discords, where data is in google docs.
Seattle3503 3y ago
I wonder if we could use LLMs to update wiki. "Hey bot, update the Wiki page for Mass Effect with the information in this thread."
account42 3y ago
Forums still exist. They may be less visible but they are still many of them around, especially for computer-adjacent hobbies.

bibabaloo 3y ago

What sort of hobbies are you talking about specifically? Not to doubt you, but I must have very different hobbies because I've never experienced something like this

dopidopHN 3y ago
Hackaton in my city, geocaching, fucking origami. Hiking. I do miss phpBB forum with the curated read only section, the lore of important post that all the forum has read and so on
jerojero 3y ago
This is a big problem in the origami community. The forums have died and have been replaced with discord, it's become pretty inaccessible so I imagine it's the same for other niche hobbies.
meetingthrower 3y ago
Have you ever used an old school forum? Threaded posts, which can be pinned. So much easier to navigate than the stream of discord comments. I admit, I am 50 now so maybe I'm just old and don't understand discord...
- baud147258 3y ago
  you can sorta do that with discord, with either pinned messages in threads or just a thread that contains the intro posts and that's closed for further comments, so you can easily find what you look for
Xelbair 3y ago
fighting games for example. it used to be that you could find a wiki with all the frame data, bnb combos and character specific tips/guidelines, and move analysis. now it's spread on character specific discords, where data is in google docs.

Seattle3503 3y ago

I wonder if we could use LLMs to update wiki. "Hey bot, update the Wiki page for Mass Effect with the information in this thread."

account42 3y ago

Forums still exist. They may be less visible but they are still many of them around, especially for computer-adjacent hobbies.