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by samplatt 6 days ago
Just like with VR, you can keep on claiming forums are "dead" all you like. Me and all my friends will keep on using them daily.

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"Good thing you're the majority of people, then." - samplatt [0]

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49002685

I was a hypocrite even writing that comment; my latest phone ALSO has an FM radio. Guess that reddit-quippiness infected me too much that day, sorry.
I wish my phone had FM radio.
They are dead the same way newsgroups are dead. Some local communities survive some might even thrive but in aggregate more are lost than created