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 [...]
  • finitebanjoEnglish
    231·
    12 days ago12 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?

    And don’t even get me started on the ease of operating these subreddits and discord channels instead of building and hosting websites.

    • ericjmoreyEnglish
      90·
      12 days ago

      Discord and Reddit also had uniquely improved their UIs over the existing options.

      • finitebanjoEnglish
        80·
        12 days ago12 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.

    • grrgyleEnglish
      40·
      12 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