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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? (dbzer0.com)

submitted 1 week ago by db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/fediverse@lemmy.world

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/28930199

A bit of an effortpost :)

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

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[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 1 points 1 week ago

If there was a Reddit/Lemmy style website (where people create communities for various subjects but it's all available from the same website using the same credentials) with forum style discussions I would be outta here in a moment.

My brother, this is that website

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

No, it's not. Unless they only allow the sorting of threads based on which discussions has the newest comment (bumping) and remove comment nesting (so discussions are ongoing instead of branching off which makes it difficult to keep up with what's new in the different threads), it's not that website.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

Can't someone make a client or a UI which does this?

[-] db0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 week ago

Lemmy already has both of those sorting options built in

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago

Only works if everyone is sorting the same way otherwise by replying to an old post you're just screaming in the void.

[-] Emperor@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

They have !lemmybb@lemmy.ml

Lemmy is just a forum set to sort by new posts, not new comments.

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago

Again, unless it works the same way for everyone then people are just replying to old discussions and no one knows about it except for the person they're replying to.

[-] Flax_vert@feddit.uk 2 points 1 week ago

How so? I generally scroll to the bottom on here

[-] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Look at this conversation, it's old enough that it doesn't show in my feed anymore (sorted by top 6h), if I wasn't taking part in it no matter how many people replied to it I would never know it took place.

That's what I'm talking about, if sorting is up to the user then most people only see "fresh" content, not ongoing conversations that they might want to take part in if they realized they're happening. Same for the comments sections, threaded makes it harder to check what's new (have to go down each branch to get the context).