Forums Are Still Alive(aftermath.site)
61 pointsby jsheard3 days ago3 comments
  • johng3 days ago
    Forums are making a slight come back... Facebook Groups are still huge, Reddit as well. But I've noticed more traffic coming back to forums as well. Perhaps people are getting tired of the lower quality content on FB.
    • JSDevOps3 days ago
      Or avoiding the power trip mods on Reddit shadow banning or banning for no reason.
      • squigz3 days ago
        Of course, this wouldn't happen with mods on forums.

        Oh wait...

      • nosrepa3 days ago
        Uh huh.
  • skeptrune3 days ago
    It would be interesting to see some estimated data on traffic to forums as a general category of the internet. Cool to see that so many are still active.
    • johng3 days ago
      This is interesting. Reddit is now searched for as much as Facebook... forum and forums don't make much of a blip comparatively.

      https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=all&geo=US&q=f...

      • rightbyte3 days ago
        People use search to lookup the tld. I don't think the trend show anything for the generic term 'forum'.
        • johng3 days ago
          If you remove FB and Reddit from the list you can definitely see a larger number of queries for "forum" over "forums" on the trends. It's not a lot of traffic but it's significantly higher for "forum".
          • ErikBjarea day ago
            If you're searching for the extremely generic term "forum" I can only assume you are doing dictionary lookup?

            Would be more interesting to compare searches for the names of several forums (not just FB and reddit) and see how the category has evolved over time.

  • ornornor3 days ago
    After Reddit committed suicide (when they killed the API), I deleted my account. I now only use specialized forums for the things I’d use subreddits for. Except slightly more friction by having to register for each forum separately, I don’t miss much. The content is better, there are users who’ve been there for 20+ years and are knowledgeable, and I don’t have to des with Reddit anything anymore.

    I hope these platforms would die already but I know they’d be replaced by an even worse “evolution” of themselves.

    Such is our internet now :(