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Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

would you give up text messages or email?

Many "new" tools are basically the old tools with a few additions like emojis and pictures.

I do think upvoting was one "technology" that did make discussion forums different than mailing lists, but that put them under control of someone and had different drawbacks. hn is a good example, reddit is one devolving example