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> would you create a forum if it had one click setup? The only reason I'd be hesitate to create a forum is that I think people (not me) might actually prefer D
by raincole 3y ago
> would you create a forum if it had one click setup?
The only reason I'd be hesitate to create a forum is that I think people (not me) might actually prefer Discord and I'm doing a disservice for them. So it's like Catch 22.
- hardwaresofton 3y agoAh I could see that -- I personally think that forums and Discord are actually different mediums, for different purposes. Slack/Discord/Mattermost/Matrix is great for frenetic conversation and water cooler chat, but it just feels like history and long term knowledge doesn't get built easily there. It's like the difference between old school forums and IRC -- people generally didn't expect much from ephemeral conversation on IRC. The one exception might be Zulip -- their threaded chat model is actually a blend and is very effective at creating enough mass around a single conversation (i.e. a thread) and making it trackable. That said, I still think forums are a different beast.