Los foros de internet están desapareciendo porque ahora todo es Reddit y Discord. Y eso es preocupante
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Hubo un tiempo en que los foros de discusión eran nuestras redes sociales. Los usuarios visitaban aquellos que se ajustaban a cierta temática y eso les...
  • lichtmetzger@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    70·
    11 days ago

    I run a forum where the first post was started 23 years ago. Although the activity has drastically gone down during recent years, people still occasionally come by. I’m very happy I kept it up, even though a lot of people switched over to a Discord server.

    Recently we had an incident where the sole admin of the Discord server was banned and the whole Discord had to be abandoned and created from scratch. People still keep using this trash! I’m not arguing with them, I’ll just keep an alternative up. One day, when Discord really enshittifies itself to a point where it becomes unuseable, people will be happy for my stubborness. I hope.

    (It’s a forum for an obscure space pirate game for the PC - I-War 2. Its first post is here.)

    • Bronzie@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      26·
      11 days ago

      Never played the game and probably never will, but I wanted to say this anyways: stay awesome!

      It’s people like you, who do stuff out of passion and not monetary gain, that made the internet so great.

    • GreatWhiteBuffalo41@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      I appreciate the people who run the forum for the Emergency! Game series. It’s where I found the info on now to run multiplayer on Emergency! 3

      • Ledericas@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        i still play RA2, apperently there isnt a primary forum for it, but people still play the modded version.

    • tfm@europe.pubOPEnglish
      4·
      11 days ago

      I run a forum where the first post was started 23 years ago.

      That’s cool!

      People still keep using this trash!

      Why? I mean if it can be destroyed on a whimp again should be reason enough to not use it again.

        • Chewy@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          4·
          11 days ago

          Agreed. In general people seem to like centralised platforms. They don’t want to sign up on another site for a specific purpose. They stick to what they know unless there’s good reason to change (mostly peer/ad/social media pressure I feel like).

          In a way Lemmy is similar in that it’s a single platform to access all types of content. Given most people don’t care about the technical “how”, I can see why they like Discord and Reddit.

        • weremacaque@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          11 days ago

          I don’t mind Discord for smaller groups of friends I know in real life, but larger groups end up with so many notifications that I end up ignoring the app. A forum would feel a lot nicer, like it’s not a chore to keep up with things.

    • Fluke@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      11 days ago

      I played the shit out of I-War 2 decades back now… Cracking game that was :D

    • ZombiFrancis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      11 days ago

      Similar. I had a community from 2001 onward where I was variously an admin and a mod over the decades. A lot of us drifted apart from being kids exploring the internet to adults with families and careers.

      But mainly the guy that took over the code maintenance became the sole admin in 2018 and he just chased everyone off the site debatebroing with increasingly racist and misogynistic rants. Dude I played games with and talked with online for 20 years started calling me a genocidal enslaver for trying to explain CRT and want solar power in America.

      • Fluffy Kitty Cat@slrpnk.netEnglish
        2·
        11 days ago

        I kind of don’t ever want a family or a career because it seems like you lose out on the ability to do anything fun