Forums Are Still Alive

Forums are making a slight come back... Facebook Groups are still huge, Reddit as well. But I've noticed more traffic coming back to forums as well. Perhaps people are getting tired of the lower quality content on FB.

It would be interesting to see some estimated data on traffic to forums as a general category of the internet. Cool to see that so many are still active.

After Reddit committed suicide (when they killed the API), I deleted my account. I now only use specialized forums for the things I’d use subreddits for. Except slightly more friction by having to register for each forum separately, I don’t miss much. The content is better, there are users who’ve been there for 20+ years and are knowledgeable, and I don’t have to des with Reddit anything anymore.

I hope these platforms would die already but I know they’d be replaced by an even worse “evolution” of themselves.

Such is our internet now :(