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Please give me back the days of the old forums again and remove the AI from everywhere. More: give me more tennis finals McEnroe - Borg!!! 😛
 
rm5 said:
I think Discord has its perks, but only if you actually have a reason to use it. It should never be used as a substitute for email or even instant messaging with just one person (we have Outlook and iMessage for that). The fact that you can have multiple "channels" for talking about different things keeps everything organized, which I like. I'm only in one Discord server anymore, which I'm just in because I've gotten to know the people well and it's very small. I'm going to keep Discord around JUST because of that one server I'm in - otherwise, I'd probably get rid of it.

And oh boy, Instagram is a whole 'nother can of worms. THAT may be the worst platform I have ever encountered online. I regret joining, it's deteriorated my mental health - it's actually made my life worse. I would leave, except there are a few specific people for whom Instagram DMs are the easiest way to reach them.
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But if you turn all notifications off of Instagram then surly it doesn’t affect you? I’ve never joined but basically I don’t allow any notifications on my iPhone except iMessage (where it’s really only Mrs AFB that messages me 90% of the time). Email that a select few have doesn’t ping or anything. My gmail which is more active, I just access through webmail when I want to check on it now and then.

Don’t let your devices rule you. Use them as tools.
Even here on MR where I’m most active I don’t have any alerts or notifications. I just log on when I want and see the red icons next to bell or PM icon. That’s it. No need to let it interfere with the rest of my life.
 
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rm5 said:
I think Discord has its perks, but only if you actually have a reason to use it. It should never be used as a substitute for email or even instant messaging with just one person (we have Outlook and iMessage for that). The fact that you can have multiple "channels" for talking about different things keeps everything organized, which I like. I'm only in one Discord server anymore, which I'm just in because I've gotten to know the people well and it's very small. I'm going to keep Discord around JUST because of that one server I'm in - otherwise, I'd probably get rid of it.

And oh boy, Instagram is a whole 'nother can of worms. THAT may be the worst platform I have ever encountered online. I regret joining, it's deteriorated my mental health - it's actually made my life worse. I would leave, except there are a few specific people for whom Instagram DMs are the easiest way to reach them.
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Discord can be used for in-game chat, just like TeamSpeak, I’ve used it for that, but finding posts there in the streaming format sucks.
 
Well, all we can do is hold on to this forum and the few others that remain online. Unfortunately, and I say this with regret, they are destined for extinction.
 
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Huntn said:
Discord can be used for in-game chat, just like TeamSpeak, I’ve used it for that, but finding posts there in the streaming format sucks.
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I've used Discord to chat with fellow fans during a sporting event, but I really am not a fan of it. I think it's basically what the old Yahoo Chatrooms were. At least with discussion forums you can seek out specific things and posts.
 
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My hope is that forums will remain, even if only as a niche on the web, a bit like those who still listen to King Crimson or the Allman Brothers.
A sort of "free zone" within the web between AI and social media, which are more geared towards a younger audience. Ultimately, I find it more interesting to develop a structured discussion on a forum rather than asking AI a question and then it stops there, or receiving at most a couple of replies on Reddit.
 
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Sh3ldon said:
My hope is that forums will remain, even if only as a niche on the web, a bit like those who still listen to King Crimson or the Allman Brothers.
A sort of "free zone" within the web between AI and social media, which are more geared towards a younger audience. Ultimately, I find it more interesting to develop a structured discussion on a forum rather than asking AI a question and then it stops there, or receiving at most a couple of replies on Reddit.
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Reddit is useful for a few niche things or questions, but ultimately I strongly dislike the Reddit Community and platform as a whole.
 
I don't even like the new forms of forums. For me, a forum should have a classic layout like this one, with categories and subcategories. Those who generally criticize this type of structure say it's a legacy of forums from the early 2000s, but who cares, it works. Why reinvent the wheel?
 
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Scepticalscribe said:
I'll settle for 1998.
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The 90s were a good time. Being online had broken out of being a niche, but not to the point where the general level of discourse had decayed, unless you went looking for that in places like Usenet. There was still a sense of opportunity, optimism, and goals other than purely capitalist.

Now? Online discourse reflects the declining state of society as a whole, and the tech companies are clearly in it only for the money; nothing noble, or altruistic about how they act.

Sadly, this was predictable. Only a matter of when, not if.
 
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