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Car forums are still alive but yea the shift from thread discussions to comment and/or video discussions really kills a lot of knowledge. It’s great to find old
by wil421 2y ago
Car forums are still alive but yea the shift from thread discussions to comment and/or video discussions really kills a lot of knowledge. It’s great to find old forum posts showing you how to work on your car. It’s tiresome skipping through videos to find what you need to or even searching Reddit.
The big thing about discord is you can chat now with people but the knowledge is not in a good format to come back to later.
- rchaud 2y agoSports forums too. I find that user stickiness there is pretty good because the Reddit sports subs are simply too large, and have an Eternal September/zero-friction problem, as joining it is a click away. However, if you managed to find the forum on a search engine and took the trouble to sign up for an account, you are more likely to abide by the general vibe of the place, rather than Redditize it with shallow, meme-y comments that reliably get a lot of upvotes.
- skeeter2020 2y agoI think the challenge is finding these rare, valuable places in a sea of noise. Gone are the days that you'd stumble on them, with Google et al keeping you blasting down freeways with no chance of turning into a quiet cul-de-sac where you might see the perfect home for sale, or at least rent it for a while. I still find value and joy on the internet, but it's much rarer and typically the hold-overs from a previous era, or tenuous things like following a handful of YTers while ad blocking still works.