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by phire 298 days ago
I was an early refugee from Digg, been on reddit for 17 years now.

Aggressive curation of subreddits did help, but I fear the decent subreddits are slowly dying out. The modern iteration of site (It's more of an app these days) appears to attract the wrong type of users for the healthy conversations that I enjoy.

I am surprised how long reddit lasted, but I get the feeling it might not hold on to me for much longer.
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johng 298 days ago
Old school forums dedicated to specific topics are still my go to these days.
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douglasisshiny 298 days ago
I was thinking about this as an approach for a side project to build in order to (speed up) learn elixir/phoenix for work. While the old-school forums dedicated to specific topics work (why re-invent them?) I was thinking of a "tribal" social network.

You as a person decide you want to create a space with a combination of reddit-like features, maybe video, etc. Only people you invite can discover it (or you can allow them to invite people) It could work for neighborhood groups (similar to nextdoor but with a limited crowd that you like/trust), school groups, family, or specific interests -- although specific interests are the idea's weakest selling point since it lacks easy discoverability.

Yeah, there are forums, discord, etc. etc., but I thought it could potentially be interesting. And yeah, people would abuse it (i.e., share pirated and illegal content), so maybe not really viable.

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akshitgaur2005 298 days ago
what are some of these forums? I am quite young so never experienced those.
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rchaud 297 days ago
Some that are ~20 years old and still kicking:

- Headphones and audio equipment: https://www.head-fi.org/forums/

- A/V equipment: https://www.avsforum.com/forums/

- Computers and Tech: https://hardforum.com/

- Music: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/

- General Entertainment and Discussion: https://forums.somethingawful.com/

RIP Notebookreview.net forums, IMDB forums, AbsolutePunk forums, Craigslist message board (still live, but mostly abandoned)

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kogasa240p 297 days ago
>I am surprised how long reddit lasted, but I get the feeling it might not hold on to me for much longer.

Agreed, the site feels like a ghost town these days whenever I lurk there.

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