beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago

Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

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Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 days ago

What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums

Old web forums were poorly coded and rough around the edges, but maybe we gave up on them too quickly in the social media era.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1234765/bring-back-crappy-forums-web-forums-were-rough-around-the-edges-and-faded-in-relevance-a

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Why haven’t more added ActivityPub & joined the fediverse or threadiverse?
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  They aren’t aware or they don’t care enough to add it?

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