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by epolanski 907 days ago
I feel like posting has become simply uncool in time for few major reasons:

- older gens (50+) getting on socials (cool kids club vanishes)

- raise of influencers and post quality (comparison anxiety)

- change to algos (fewer people will see it)

I can't but think that plain old vBulletin/PhpBB topic-based forums are still the pinnacle of internet discussions.

I don't like the fact, e.g. that interesting discussion on hackernews end up in a day and you don't have long threaded discussions.

1 comments

I go a few weeks back into my comments daily and find new comments all the time that I interact with. Some users have notifiers set up when they get replied to. You can still have those discussions, just missing the recent-at-top sort.