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im kind of sad about old internet
« on: December 22, 2019, 06:29:57 AM »
i feel like classic forum / discussion board are dying and it made me sad thinking about it the other day

also sorry everyone i havent been playing yore games lately grad school make me sad

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #1 on: December 23, 2019, 04:16:23 AM »
hang in there gamer, sounds tough.......

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #2 on: December 23, 2019, 04:42:07 AM »
They might have fancy chat applications, but this is still teh place to be.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #3 on: December 24, 2019, 03:42:48 AM »
cat planet forum

the place to be

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #4 on: January 10, 2020, 04:56:04 AM »
I can't tell if forums died due to developing taste of the populace or a deliberate attempt by social media corps to centralize us in one place to pump full of advertisements.

Considering the quality of what it's been replaced with I'm pretty skeptical of the former.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #5 on: January 10, 2020, 06:19:00 PM »
I'd guess it has more to do with people being drawn towards constant feeds of information.  That seems to be the general direction of things.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #6 on: January 10, 2020, 06:21:58 PM »
I think the popularity of Discord kinda shows how popular the concept still is

Facebook also took over the groups side of things, previously companies or groups or whatever would have a forum, now it's a Facebook group

I miss it too tho, I should probably join a Discords or something
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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #7 on: January 10, 2020, 06:23:13 PM »
Goodness, I got a "some other person posted before you" before that last post

The forum lives
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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #8 on: January 10, 2020, 06:24:17 PM »
Teehee, our posts are touching.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #9 on: January 10, 2020, 06:27:36 PM »
Teehee, our posts are touching.
Steady on, I'm a married man, this isn't like the old days, with all the free love that was going on in here

Wait do I need to do /s nowadays?
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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #10 on: January 10, 2020, 07:29:46 PM »
I was in Discord the other day trying to type out what I learned trying to manipulate the RNG in a video game.  What a terrible format for long-form thoughts.

As is almost every other medium.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #11 on: January 10, 2020, 07:46:54 PM »
Long-form stuff I type out in a separate text document, then copy over.  Sometimes adding breaks for the 2,000 character limit.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #12 on: January 10, 2020, 08:30:25 PM »
I save time by getting halfway through a paragraph and then deciding not to post it at all
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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #13 on: January 11, 2020, 03:31:07 AM »
It's not even the typing out, it's that the only people who will read it are those who happen to be paying attention to Discord at that very moment. Nobody's scrolling back to the past to read people's blogs.

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Re: im kind of sad about old internet
« Reply #14 on: January 11, 2020, 03:35:37 AM »
Now what would be cool is an app like Discord but have a learn-ed machine trying to detect "topics". When it (or maybe server moderators) detects popular topics being discussed those messages get pulled out and put into a "topic index" section of the app. So people can come back later and contribute to the topic without being worried about whatever is going on in the live chat portion of the app at that moment.