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⌈ Secret Post #2473 ⌋

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Comments

Forums/Messageboards

[(Anonymous)]

So while I don't really agree with the sentiments expressed in #1, it did make me wonder (for the million time) - why IS it that forums seem to have died a bit? Is it Facebook and the groups that come with it functioning so similarly? Is it that they tended to be cliquey and people finally got sick of that?

I don't think it's that forums are all dead, I still go to some that are quite active, but when I first got into one of them, it was one of many forums I went to. It's now one of two I go to. Sporadically.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[kaijinscendre]

Obviously they are not all dead, considering you are talking on one right now.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[(Anonymous)]

Not really, it's a blog client. And they're not all dead of course, as I said I belong to two, but when I first got into fandom there were messageboards for everything. Now there aren't, or they're quiet.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[(Anonymous)]

Two of my main fandom places, a forum and an oekaki, have pretty much died in the past two years. Forum's picking up a bit since the server error messages have gone, but the oekaki's close to gone.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[shortysc22]

I think the way the internet has changed and also the emergence of the smartphones has a lot to do with it.

I remember I had different forums for every fandom and now I really don't frequent any, pretty much just LJ/dreamwidth.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[(Anonymous)]

In my experience it was the smaller communties that have died out and now most forums are the huge, and often 'official', ones that are alive and kicking. Which is a shame since I get lost and overwhelmed and really liked the many smaller communities. Medium forums are where I've made the most friends in the past and it's a shame they're out of style.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[(Anonymous)]

Forums were a pain and they did feel very cliquey. I never really got into them? And always making new accounts for each new X forum. Granted most things to after awhile but...idk, I never liked forums much. I like the scrapbook method of tumblr and the journal styles of DW/LJ and that I can pop in and out of all these different communities without switching websites.

Tumblr is a better layout for art too, than forums. /fanartist

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[dethtoll]

I've thought about this and here's my take on it.

I've seen a very large number of platforms basically dry up in activity. In a way, this is just a side effect of the passage of time. Lots of forums have died quiet deaths as people lose interest in the forum's raison d'etre and simply run out of things to discuss. It happens all the time, and has for years, since the days of Usenet.

But thanks to the rise of social media, forums are experiencing mass die-offs. Plainly speaking, forums and the like are an old-school method of communicating that is disappearing as we enter a transition phase- social media. The internet of ten years from now will probably be very different from what it is at this moment in time; and I've been an internaut long enough that the internet of today is no longer recognizable as what I spent the last decade and a half on.

The truth is, this phenomenon has been building up steam for a very long time. I guess you could say it started with Livejournal, but that's only sort of true. The real culprit, I think, is Myspace. That started the trend. And when Facebook stopped being exclusively for college students all bets were off. Communication could be lightning quick -- no need for long missives that required an extra mouseclick to post something.

So yeah, it can be partially blamed on stuff like Facebook, Twitter and Tumblr, but I think it's also to do with a lot of the old-timers across the internet stepping out.

Think about it. Forums are a web 1.0 concept, populated by people who are now older. Folks my age, 30-40 somethings, were the guys who were around before we had all this web 2.0, social media stuff. We've been there since the 1990s, and we were just kids then. The internet was a new and scary and interesting place. It was a lawless wasteland, and I think most people my age are lucky that they got through it (and the 4chan years) unscathed.

We're old now. We're tired. And a lot of us long-timers, we lose interest, get jobs, lives, spouses, children, prison time, whatever. We simply don't have the time or inclination. We've grown disinterested in the fascinating new world of the internet, and we're also disillusioned- we all thought it'd be like Gibson's cyberspace or the Matrix or some damn shit, and it turned out to be cat torture videos and bloodninja. It's a bit disappointing, you know? (also showing my age making a bloodninja joke)

So we emerge from our darkened basement rooms into groups of family and friends that barely recognize us anymore, shave off our Saddam spider hole beards (yes even the women) and go out and do stuff. Stuff like Facebook lets us keep in touch without having to actually blow a lot of time writing up a post.

tl;dr forums a comparatively slow web 1.0 concept populated by older internauts who don't have time anymore and moved to faster-paced web 2.0 sites like tumblr and facebook which has been populated by the next generation since day one

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[shortysc22]

I agree with this completely. I feel so old, but really I'm not. I just wish I could say what you said quite so well.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[tamabonotchi]

Ugh, I really wished lolita had a community forum. The LJ for it is pretty much dead for anything other than newbs and a lot of people have gone to post pictures on tumblr where it's harder to talk (it works for some aspects of the comm) and have closed groups on Facebook.
I feel like if instead of LJ they had a forum like the kimono community has, there wouldn't be this problem of the community spreading out.
Not actually fandom related, but I just had to complain.

Re: Forums/Messageboards

[(Anonymous)]

we tried several times for a lolita forum, it just never took off. This new "Lacebook" thing looks like it's becoming popular, but yeah, I kinda miss the heyday of EGL. Not the drama, though; I mostly talk to my local comm on fb these days and it's nicer in a way because we get along pretty well and if we want to have a superhero-themed meetup or something no one judges us... at least, not where we can see it. So we don't worry about it.