Here's a list of open-access communities I grew up on: Hacker News, Myspace, LiveJournal, XDA-Developers, RateyourMusic/AbsolutePunk forums, and about a thousa

Here's a list of open-access communities I grew up on: Hacker News, Myspace, LiveJournal, XDA-Developers, RateyourMusic/AbsolutePunk forums, and about a thousand phpBB/vBuletin boards from 20 years ago. Every single one of these is close to 20 years old. It is in fact the "new and young" that think they need to "download the app" and "join the community" for every single thing that could just be a Discourse message board.