How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord? - eviltoast
From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
    231·
    3 days ago

    Much easier access.

    You make a reddit account or a discors account and you have limited access to thousands of forums.

    Imagine giving your email address and making a password and solving a captcha hundreds of times instead. Who would choose to?

      • finitebanjo@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        3 days ago

        Until that API nonsense I was always using old.reddit because the redesign was ass.

        Discord is cool tho, better than skype gui for sure.

    • grrgyle@slrpnk.netEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      I’m on 3 active forums and 2 lemmies and 2 mastos and I just leave myself logged in. It’s nothing like that. Somehow that’s still a better user experience than discord