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Does anyone else miss traditional forums? (lemmy.world)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
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[–] 36 points 11 months ago (6 children)

I prefer and always have preferred a vote system like we have here. Forums made paralel conversations impossible to follow, gave a bigger voice to trolls and made finding information in big threads difficult. I absolutely hated the common answer to a question being "search the forum". I already have Jared, the search function is trash and the information is scattered and outdated.

What aspect I do miss is the fact that threads stayed relevant for more than 24hrs. I think a combination of the two systems would work for a forum 2.0, where ranking is based on activity and votes, so a post gets pushed back up in ranking if it's still active and relevant, instead of just taking raw votes and age in considerarion, but also the comments within are grouped in conversations based on who replied to who and can move up and down based on activity and age.

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  • [–] 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Exactly, threads that get new activity should be bumped. Maybe they don't need to be super-visible for people who ignored the thread in the first place, but they could at least go to the top-50 posts.

    I think it would be cool if conversations that link to the same URL are all automatically grouped, so that reposts just become bumps with a new context/title.

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  • [–] 4 points 11 months ago (2 children)

    Except vote systems are abused to hell. Dissenting opinions are down voted into oblivion and we end up with the echo chamber.

    I spent a lot of time on the ebaumsworld forums in the early 2000s, and it was your classic shitshow. Not a huge amount of traffic, though, so you could have conversations, but you'd leave, and come back the next day, and sometimes you'd have pages of nonsense to read through.

    Then, they introduced rep, and it was such a shitshow. Users conspired together to abuse it, because that's how it goes, except now, instead of late night Skype sessions, it's bots, and marketing, and PR.

    I guess the problem was and always is, when there's too many people, it ruins things.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (1 child)

    I guess the problem was and always is, when there’s too many people, it ruins things.

    This is the thing when people talk about the Fediverse's traffic compared to Reddit. To me it's very much a feature. I don't think trying to get everyone and their dog on the same platform is a particularly good idea!

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