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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

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Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

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Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 4 months ago

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What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums

Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1234765/bring-back-crappy-forums-web-forums-were-rough-around-the-edges-and-faded-in-relevance-a

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Bring back crappy forums? Why just not continue using all the good forums that we never stopped using?
FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
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Buddy, we’re on one right now.
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  Bless your heart
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  not really, much more like Usenet.
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  This is social media. Not forums.
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  No.

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