Forum sites

Posted by hotsaucedrinkerman@reddit | RedditAlternatives | View on Reddit | 12 comments

Could the classic forum format be good enough? Forums allow for their creators to further customize the user experience and embody decentralization. A return of forum sites would be amazing for 2023.

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worldofstonesus@reddit

in 2024, i don't think so forum submission sites works properly. now its called as community submission websites. i also using sites for my projects.

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Decca77@reddit

I have been using Forums from the beginning and I always have enjoyed them

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Initial-Picture-5638@reddit

same here. I’ve been using forums since 2004 and I don’t see myself leaving them anytime soon. I love the atmosphere and community feeling of them.

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That's what I wish for since the decline of forum communities many years ago. There are a few bigger forum communites I know of that still exist, for example boards.ie.. but in the end, most forums are topic or area specific. Back in the day, when a forum community got big enough, they covered basically every topic (even though they mostly started being dedicated to a specific one, eg. gaming or IT)

What would a modern forum software and community need?

A start page/news feed that shows you interesting posts from all communites you've joined and other posts that might be interesting.
Maybe an easy way to link/share news articles that appear on user's start page/news feed and let you open the shared URL (maybe even chached/ad free) as well as the discussion with one click.
A big, international community and forums to every possible area, topic and hobby
The possibility to "join" a forum/community (like you do in reddit), atm forum software doesn't really have this.
An upvote/like/karma system that takes all the good from reddit's system without encouraging and rewarding rude behaviour and stupid jokes (like reddit does).
A really good search engine that covers all forums
A good compromise between easy login/registration to all communities/forums and privacy... Maybe some kind of automatically created user profile aliases (one for each forum/community) that are linked to your profile, but only people on your friend list can see your real user name in every forum/community?

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ioxhv@reddit

No one wants a different app and account for every community they join. However, there are platforms which allow people to use one account to view content across many servers.

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theg721@reddit

No one wants a different app and account for every community they join

I don't think that this necessarily requires either of those things though.

You don't need an app if you have a good enough mobile experience on your website.

You don't need an account on that website so long as that website supports some kind of OAuth (log in with Google/Apple/GitHub/your own website/etc.).

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YoSaffBridge11@reddit

I used to being to a couple of forums that had different topic options, similar to Reddit. In just needed the one login.

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Stiltzkinn@reddit

Forums are still common, I would say the best platform right now is Discourse.

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GoldenRhyno@reddit

I feel like this is useful information in trying times like these:

https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/3-forum-search-engines-to-search-40-000-message-boards/

Maybe somebody make it its own thread here to show options for the reddit Diaspora.

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FanClubs_org@reddit

I'm building a centralized forum site at FanClubs.org if you want to check it out. It does allows for customized experiences in member-run Fan Clubs.

Fan clubs have their own forum, events, blog, and image galleries if the Fan Club owners choose to add them.

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textuist@reddit

sure, they already exist, probably as mentioned in the megathread, more people might make use of them