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Because, at least these days, people try to do everything in Discord, even the things at wasn't designed to do.
I still think forums can have their place in the web. As none of thr social media fully replaces them. It's has more to do with convincing younger people to use them, and how to monetize them.
I still think forums can have their place in the web. As none of thr social media fully replaces them. It's has more to do with convincing younger people to use them, and how to monetize them.
- Competition, i.e., Reddit, discord
- Cost of running forums, lack of ROI
- Bots, spam, the newer AI bots are now flooding forums, makes the staff work harder
- Overzealous moderation - people getting warned and suspended for the stupidest reasons
- Under-moderation - no moderation is just as bad as over moderation, turns the forums into an insult fest
- Cliques - not welcoming new people, because you weren't part of us before mentality.
- Technology maturity, there's less hobbyists who are excited about this
Facebook is another major reason. Their approach to getting people to keep their attention within Facebook has resulted in a lot of forums becoming Facebook Groups, and people looking there first for topics that catch their interest. It just hoovered up a lot of the attention that would have otherwise gone to forums.
Things change.
From The Well, to dial-up BBSes, AOL's nascent form of forums, Usenet, mailing lists.
Web forums changed all that, in ways good (easy access) and bad (LCD of participants dropped).
Social media has changed things. And putting aside Reddit's awfulness as a platform (including poor reliability for such a large site), it as well. Discord, too (including similar operational issues IME).
The biggest challenge is finding the users who have something to offer, and where they congregate.
From The Well, to dial-up BBSes, AOL's nascent form of forums, Usenet, mailing lists.
Web forums changed all that, in ways good (easy access) and bad (LCD of participants dropped).
Social media has changed things. And putting aside Reddit's awfulness as a platform (including poor reliability for such a large site), it as well. Discord, too (including similar operational issues IME).
The biggest challenge is finding the users who have something to offer, and where they congregate.