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Why nobody uses these forums (any more...)
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I'm not saying you can't have a conversation on discord or other instant messaging services, but rather a message board offers a functional structure to conversations by nature of having individually threaded topics, you can have a conversation and a year later come back to the thread when you need to reference something in a specific post, usually being able to find the thread or even the exact post via the search function.
Compared to instant messaging where you would be scrolling up for hours loading in logs and maybe with a little bit of luck have a search function that will help find the messages you're looking for hidden in tens of thousands of messages on different subjects with little to no separation.
Both options of course allow you to have a conversation with one or more people, but I'm simply saying the message board format is better structured, not that every interaction must be that way or is somehow inferior, I wouldn't be running IRC and XMPP servers if I saw no value in instant messages, but the current internet culture pushes using only instant message even when it isn't as appropriate.
The constant forced logouts are very annoying though, and do nothing to help account security. I wish they would take lesson from getting rid of similarly useless false "security" features like the secondary password they did get rid of and get rid of forced logout and 60 day email reactivation for logging into the client.
Hmm, I guess I see your point, but its not always like that for discord, even then? Really depends on what server your in I guess, cause like, in a lot of the ones I'm in, there's different threads for different topics. And for certain topics, they are much more slow going. Usually even the general chats are somewhat slow, even with their fast days. And, just like with these forums, discord has a search engine too. I've been able to find past conversations just fine with certain keywords.
I'll say though, its not so slow that it'd be relevant to return to a conversation a year later like that on discord, I wouldn't imagine.
well yeah, but this thread was also made in June of 2022, i've seen threads on here get to this amount of posts within days
i really do think people should bring back forums again, i still kind of don't understand why they died out.. yeah discord is cool and all for dm's and the like, but nothing will replace forums for me