Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. - eviltoast
  • Scrollone@feddit.it
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    5 months ago

    From your stats, it’s clear that the first fall was caused by Facebook and smartphones.

    • cjk@discuss.tchncs.de
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      5 months ago

      Yes, the uprise of social media was a big hit in traffic.

      But I disagree with the smartphone part, quite the opposite. Suddenly the forum was flooded with questions about HTML/CSS/JS issues with smartphones. I suspect that smartphones delayed the drop in postings.