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Post by Kokoro on Aug 20, 2022 17:33:56 GMT -8
Boy! Am I behind? I never heard of Discord until I read this thread. Guess I am one of those who started with Forums back in year 2000. I thought they were the greatest. Such an improvement over chat rooms. I thought forums were the greatest then, and I still think that is true. I go occasionally, 2 or 3 times a week to Facebook, just to keep up with family. I spend many, many hours every day in my ProBoards Forum. I love it there and I love my members. We know and care about each other. I love Forums and hope they live forever. I admit, I don't spend as much time as I should on forums these days. I haven't posted regularly on ProBoards in the longest time. Most of my posting comes from other non-ProBoards forums. I started posting in forums in 2001, so not long after you. But I cringe at almost a majority of posts I've made prior to like 2010.
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Post by James [a_leon] on Aug 22, 2022 3:21:09 GMT -8
I wonder if it's almost a generational situation? I mean, if MySpace were to reopen and operate as they once did, would we flock back and abandon facebook? My spouse loves tiktock, I cannot stand it. The videos are too short usually, badly edited and usually not that interesting. I grew up with youtube videos and while so many creators have changed for better or worse, there are still many that are consistent with quality content. I don't think anyone wants to go back to MySpace lol. I agree with the TikTok sentiment. I find it to be a cancerous cesspool in general, but there are pockets of genuine community and there are some really talented people that get to learn storytelling and editing skills. I run a Discord and a sub-Reddit as a compliment to the ProBoards forum. But I prefer the forum due to the user interface, the forum structures and the search functions. Never really understood the appeal of Reddit (except for advertising). I like reddit as the successor to slashdot: a local, world, and specific topic news aggregate. As a platform for being social though... no, I never saw it as that.
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Post by harryk on Sept 6, 2022 17:38:01 GMT -8
Gameloft killed their own forums and moved to Discord, I assume because it was a cheaper option. Despite many requests by users to archive and make it read only, they deleted the lot. Some of us from the Asphalt 8 forum moved to Proboards.
I don't like or do Discord but we have a thread where people post screenshot from there and a few members willing to contact GL staff there about issues.
Generally, I think there is a generational difference. There is a trend for texting, Twitter & comment style short messages but people do like to chat. I think forums will be around for a long time yet.
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Post by Asaemon on Sept 10, 2022 6:06:47 GMT -8
I like reddit as the successor to slashdot: a local, world, and specific topic news aggregate. As a platform for being social though... no, I never saw it as that. No idea what slashdot is, but Reddit feels unorganised, full with annoying bots and anonymous downvoters.
Only pro that I see is that you can use Reddit to get instant traffic boosts to your ProBoards forum
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Post by bigballofyarn on Sept 10, 2022 6:43:13 GMT -8
I like reddit as the successor to slashdot: a local, world, and specific topic news aggregate. As a platform for being social though... no, I never saw it as that. No idea what slashdot is, but Reddit feels unorganised, full with annoying bots and anonymous downvoters.
Only pro that I see is that you can use Reddit to get instant traffic boosts to your ProBoards forum
I know I'm biased in favor of ProBoards and other forums, but I definitely think that Reddit is disorganized. I don't like how replies can split off in so many directions. I suppose it can be useful to some, but it looks messy to me.
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Post by aastinky on Sept 19, 2022 16:03:41 GMT -8
I had this same topic on my forum, and the response was pretty divided.
I've had a vendetta with discord for a while. I've seen discord used for pretty nefarious reasons in other communities, such as to plan and coordinate a spam attack or something to that effect.
In my personal experience as an admin, I've had a few situations where users would use discord, at first, to speed up communication. Over time, the channel would expand and eventually becomes a refuge for users to form alliances and gossip about other users on the forum (or myself.) They would start rumours and make a lot of over-analysis of people's posts in private discord chats, and then conflicts would arise on the forum that leave non-discord users scratching their heads. They would talk about debates that are happening on the forum and workshop each others responses. This makes it really difficult to single out people for bullying and harrassment when its multiple people saying really mean and callous things at once.
There's been a few massive blowouts on my forum over the years. Usually it would involve soft-bullying with sarcasm and coded joking language that only those in the discord groups would understand, and huge arguments would ensue and then they'd delete their accounts in protest. I've lost a lot of friends over it. I've had some really nasty baseless things said about me that really hurt my feelings, sometimes by people I once really trusted. I think these kinds of things would have never happened if discord wasn't in the picture.
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Post by cheddarmouse on Sept 23, 2022 11:32:33 GMT -8
Do you believe that discord is slowly killing forums? It seems some people I'm in community with prefers a chat box over a forum, and with discord being a very popular platform, they will go there to chat. I prefer forums and would love to keep them around. What are your thoughts? Having been forced to get used to Discord since about 2019, I can attest that it's unfortunate but true. Although I am aware that instant chatting can be more efficient in certain capacities, as an autistic individual who struggles in fast paced environments and is stronger in written social situations in which I have infinite time to consider what I am putting out there and how I'm wording it (i.e is this something that should be said and is the tone polite?), I, for the most part, feel more comfortable on forums and wish for them to thrive but I have noticed a decline in forum population since around 2018 or 2019. I started using Discord as an obligation of a staff position with a Kingdom Hearts fansite and the comparison is noticeable from how active the forum was when I joined in 2014 to it's near emptiness now which is in turn comparable to the liveliness of the Discord server. It seems this forum is a rare exception, most forums I visit now are ghost towns and either encourage participation in their Discord server if the community still exists or establish themselves on Discord from the beginning rather than bothering with a forum presence. Pokemon fangame communities are the biggest examples I have seen of this. The general format is that the fangame will have a showcase thread on one or two well known forums (primarily PokeCommunity and Relic Castle) but will include an invite link to a Discord server which will usually be noticeably more active. The problem forums are having now is that the communication format has been transitioning from thoughtful statements such as those being contributed here, to memes, GIFs and videos which instant chatting platforms such as Discord and social media are set up to better support with mechanics such as character limits and reaction emojis. To sum it up, people are devolving into preferring excuses to use their brains less and feel the need for visual validation on the internet. It's frightening to consider.
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Post by Ayen on Oct 1, 2022 12:01:23 GMT -8
I don't know if Discord is killing forums, but it seems to be that a lot of forums these days have a Discord server to accompany it. I only started using Discord a couple of years ago because everyone I knew on Skype moved to Discord.
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Post by Bones on Oct 1, 2022 23:21:04 GMT -8
I'm only on discord for two reasons, one I've used it as a replacement for the various chatrooms used in the past for our "Friday night chats" at my Transformers message board. The second being a popular blocky sandbox game. Of which suffers from spam, noobs not reading rules, lack of decent moderation, saltiness alot of which is more specific to that server however.
This is why I will always choose forums over discord, they more organised (That includes using reddit), you can have better, longer discussions and the content is always there. You can moderate them better, they're just far more organized, informative, customaizable. Of course I've used message boards since the early 2000's so I'm hugely biased. With reddit it feels like just one mess of topics and things get buried quicker whereas I think Discord works best as an alternate "chat" but not as a community as a whole where message boards will always own for me.
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Post by locoleo89 on Oct 26, 2022 18:26:09 GMT -8
I feel that forums will never truly die, so as long as other beings wish to communicate with one another, and that if you pull it all in together (meaning not owning just a static website) and use the power of social media, that you can pull your audience in a little more, I also feel that forums and social media go hand in hand because they are both forms of communication, only social media tends to be less "mysterious/anonymous" than forum softwares and communities tend to be, however if you have a forum on your website/fansite then it makes it easier to write things that relate to your topic at hand such as howtos and walkthoughs and various other things, makes it so there's deeper engagement for those who want it or even makes it so there's more rich text-content explaining the news, or how to do something, or something to that effect.
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Post by darkdayz on Oct 31, 2022 16:53:11 GMT -8
Revive the forums!
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Post by Zenlethic on Nov 2, 2022 13:06:12 GMT -8
I actually like Reddit for discussion. Yeah, there are trolls and toxicity there but for the most part, I get a classic forum feel with that site. It's probably closest to what IMDb forums were before they closed, with how you can reply to each individual comment and start chains for each.
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Post by JMA 23 on Nov 4, 2022 7:02:10 GMT -8
There are posters that thrive on discord, so no, not killing forums. They will gravitate to the forums that supply that type of discussion. Just as I've seen it.
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Post by JMA 23 on Nov 4, 2022 7:06:05 GMT -8
I think Facebook groups kill forums more than Discord, but I don't use either one. Maybe my love for forums has made me boycott all modern social media. Same here, only use fb to keep up with a few schoolmates from 50 years ago. Rarely go there.
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Post by Harvie on Nov 5, 2022 6:44:19 GMT -8
Do you believe that discord is slowly killing forums? It seems some people I'm in community with prefers a chat box over a forum, and with discord being a very popular platform, they will go there to chat. I prefer forums and would love to keep them around. What are your thoughts? I think this is true. Discord is one reason why proboards forums are dying for have died. It's kind of like online shopping, people are getting stuff online rather than at shops. Slowly making shops loose money and get forced to go online...
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