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I think it's just changed a lot. Building a forum is a decent amount of work and it costs money. You also take on some form of liability for your user's conte
by sky2224 2y ago
I think it's just changed a lot. Building a forum is a decent amount of work and it costs money. You also take on some form of liability for your user's content today, which can be a headache and cost even more money to address.
Sites like Reddit, Tomshardware, etc, basically took all the work away while allowing you to build a community around a niche of your interest.
- muzani 2y agoI don't think it has specifically changed. The price and stacks are the same. Back then, we'd hang out on sites like Paradox Games subforums. There would be the "upper boards" to discuss the actual company stuff and "lower boards" as its own community. HN is a similar model, but I feel like they made the mistake of merging the communities. So you have the group that is startup based, the YC backed group that uses it for hiring, the people launching stuff, and the people who just want tech news but hate all the startup stuff. But reddit is free, comes with moderation tools, and everyone has a reddit account. So it has become the default forum. People start at reddit and move elsewhere, never vice versa.