| I used to frequent various forums. They all seem to have disappeared. For some reason, "discource" has taken over as the forum software, but I don't ever remember finding it engaging or interesting. Sure, the old forum software were kind of "old", pre-ajax. You had to click all the time. But somehow, it was engaging. People would post there, and threads could go on for days, and I would come and check every so often for new replies. This all seems to have gone. Most programming discussion now takes place on HN and Reddit. Almost all the discource based programming forums are mostly just Q&A (aka support). Some discussions happen on Twitter, but Twitter is not really a good platform for discussions. I mean, it doesn't even have a good way of navigating all the comments on a thread!! I think what killed it for me is that by design, discussions just fade into the "next" page after about two days, so you never see the kind of thread where comments keep pouring in for days and weeks. |