From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]

A bit of an effortpost :)

Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any

    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
      81·
      3 months ago

      reddit started as a link aggregator, but morphed into a de-facto forum, yes. But link aggregation was also a big part. But when I say forums in this piece, I am talking about old school ones, as existed before reddit. Lemmy can function as a forum replacement however, which is why I suggest it at the end as a suitable replacement.

      • SupraMario@lemmy.world
        8·
        3 months ago

        Sorting and bumping. Lemmy and reddit and can never be a forum from the past. As all content is continually drowned out and replaced with new posts. So no it cant.

          • SupraMario@lemmy.world
            4·
            3 months ago

            Not to the point old school forums do. The sorting is one of the main things in a old school forum as it will bump a post to the top with a single comment. Subforums are also something you don’t have on reddit/lemmy scrolling aggregators.

            • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
              21·
              3 months ago

              What are you talking about? Each community is effectively a subforum. Why do you need nested forums?

              Also, being able to bump up threads was a curse as well. Anyway, of course lemmy is not identical to old-school bbcode forums, but I’d argue this is for the best. But I’m also hoping Discourse will make lemmy integration better, then it can be used by people who prefer that format.

              • SupraMario@lemmy.world
                2·
                3 months ago

                Look at xda and then reask that question. Subforums exist because some topics still fall under the same forum. Like android roms is a sub forum in xda, so its rooting phones. All the same umbrella but has different subforums.

                This seems to be an issue with those who never used forums or grew up with them. They just want rolling topics over and over.

                • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOP
                  12·
                  3 months ago

                  There’s no reason for subforums even in that case. You can easily have multiple communities the same way XDA has.

                  • SupraMario@lemmy.world
                    11·
                    3 months ago

                    Which is a nightmare for searching and knowing where to post. Forums are still one of the best mediums for topics with multiple Branches