Will text-based forums / message boards ever make a comeback?

In app form maybe

webdev js programmer spotted

I miss these forum type boards :(

these types of boards are literally cancer.

each post has approximately 100 fucking random pieces of shit attached to it like photos, quotes, username, total posts, MEMBER SINCE, time posted, GIF avatars, cancerous 8 bit emojis, etc.

Just way too much bullshit you need to sift through to actually read the goddamn reply. pure fucking cancer. a 100 page thread could fit into 10 pages if it weren't for all the extra bullshit

One of the reasons I'm still using image boards is because I like the forum format tbqh

Forrocoches and JVC still exist.

Reddit has made them obsolete.

visited one of my old time favorites a few a months ago and it's literally dead cause they don't allow piracy on it anymore
fucking faggots sold out and now they're dead

Christ I hope not, those forums are terrible, see

Fuck web-based forums, I wish Usenet would make a comeback. The speed and comfiness of navigating/searching/following/filtering/scoring posts/threads/branches in a meticulously riced newsreader was fucking godlike and impossible to emulate with HTTP. Not to mention you didn't have to download zetabytes of HTML, JS and other useless shit. The Internet is devolving.

>register
Wrong site bro.

If you want to ask that question, do it on reddit.

i miss those forums. i would look for more if i thought of something that would interest me well enough as just platonic colloquiation but the issue that bothers me more than simply being unable to find one is that whole double post and off topic post rule stuff. mods are such a pain. problem with these boards, image boards, is that the level ofnintelligence is so looooow. really kinda sets one up to get a shitty job in the same kind of dillema or end up miserable if intelligence is whats desired. dont bring up any of the university stuff or school stuff bc i did that and all you find are people being fratty or clicquey and none of them really want to go over the details bc they think it belongs to just them.

so im here and i play video games. sometimes go to b for a fap.

i would say information like: member since, number of posts, etc would be a good thing... but in comparison there are just so many advantages of anonymous posting.

and forum junkies (high post count, member for 22 years, etc) turn into useless mind sludges.

>mods are such a pain.
Why is this such a universal constant among all forums?

holy fuck web apps used to be cluttered to hell and back

that kind of shit would never fly today

That's only the tip of the iceberg, add to that no necropost even if relevant, the clique shitting on everyone and dragging down the overall posts quality, mods powertrip and content locked behind a time/post count gate.
I can't go back, i don't want to go back.

Probably some of the most interesting forums if you lurk enough are
rooshvforum.com/
news.ycombinator.com/

rpgcodex is fine

The children clay UI was shit, is visual bloat. BBS had it right, if you want more stuff you need to differentiate by color, not by objects.

If you can access from the command line or by an ncurses interface and it doesn't break, then it's worthy.

Hopefully. Facebook killed forums.

Some of my best times where on phpBB boards.

However, there are still some forums which are going very strong and don't look like dying any time soon.

I'd say stackoverflow is a kind of forum and it's used pretty extensively. The whole stackexchange business is pretty neat. It's a centralized effort I know, but the QC is mostly great and there are some compromises you have to take.

If I have bigger questions I always refer to them, and if I have smaller questions or just want to chat I just go on IRC channels or discord.

I don't miss the days of trying to gather information from 5 different text based forums with unnecessary registration bullshit, insane waiting times and subpar replies.

That said I'm kind of sick of sifting through mailing lists as well although they still kind of have their place but I wish someone would come up with a better solution.

bump

I have a textboard i put up 2 months ago:
grillchan.t28.net/textboard/

Its not necessarily a GOOD forum, but the linus tech tips one seems to be one of the few surviving ones with that kind of userbase. Also GameFAQs

No, they became irrelevant when Reddit and Facebook became popular, but it's not like they're any better.

reddit is garbage compared to message boards.

>comments aren't on equal footing for numerous reasons
>can't come back later and go straight to new posts
>if you don't post very early, you may as well not post at all (doesn't apply to small subreddits)
>threads are always done within hours
>just the general stifling nature of the community because of the limp wrists that post there

No necrobump plz. :^)

:^)

>you need to sift through to actually read the goddamn reply. pure fucking cancer. a 100 page thread could fit into 10 pages
This, and even the power-tripping moderators

Banned: No flaming

lift the ban mods pl0x

You just don't know where to look. I visit around 3-4 on a regular basis, and I find the standard of conversation to be much greater than here or leddit.

I still telnet into bbses every once in a while. people are just bitching about the election in synchronet lol.

You forgot quote pyramids. What an inefficient way to (You).

>reddit is garbage compared to message boards.

It's called Reddit.

You're in one.

Fuck no, anonymous imageboards are the future

Those which had stable communities built around them are alive and well, and most likely here to stay.

Shit forums have this, well-maintained ones with a non-cancerous community usually don't.

Reddit more or less made these obsolete. That's a good thing, because not even those guys are as cancerous as HTML message board culture, and the admins who ran them.

>1997: hurr, BBSes are dead
>2007: hurr, newsgroups are dead
>2017: hurr, forums are dead
>2027: hurr, imageboards are dead

reddit didn't do shit. except give a lesson in how not to design a site.

Everything comes and goes eventually, because a new generation doesn't use it anymore. See

Yea. Quite possibly in 10 years from now there will be new tech which will make imageboards look as dated as forums look now or newsgroups looked 10 years ago.

That tech being what, Facebook brain implants?

Imageboards, especially Sup Forums need a decline in users though, in order to return to original less chaotic state.

Though some chaos by sheer number of users is good and interesting, if they're all redditards and normalfags who dont understand the point of the imageboard nor care to then its better off being in decline than heading towards a shit storm and unstoppable influx of normalfags.

Though something like old megachan where posts were measured by post per week if not month on threads is not desirable or healthy for the imageboard either.

Dunno but I noticed that recently nobody checks trips or even quads anymore (let alone dubs), and there's much more posts with pajeet-tier erratic grammar, which were quite a rarity before.

Snapchat-Quora groups, after the two companies merge.

Yeah, SO is nice until some faggot who clearly doesn't know shit about the topic asks if you could "clarify" your question. That and pedantic pieces of shit that love going on power trips about what question goes where. SO is basically the reddit of Q&A.

I use PHPBB3 on a daily basis and there is non-existent theme support unless you like 2008-tier graphics. I don't even want meme UIs like minimalism, I just want something that's intelligently optimized for screen real estate. While my community isn't retard-tier, almost every forum has the retarded "no n3cr0 posting xDD" faggots even if your post is relevant, so you have to make another thread asking the same exact question again, getting the same worthless replies from the other thread. The only well-designed forum is the CrunchBang forum. God-tier design.

Anonymous imageboards are the best format and are here to stay.

I also notice less use of reaction images, and images in general, you can tell when a thread is majority redditors when theres a huge disparity between images posted and replies, at least thats my theory, since on reddit they dont post images with their posts and then they bring over that behavior to here, we're not fucking 2ch damnit.

why does something have to "age"? I thought frames were perfectly fine and no valid reason to get rid of them. better than this bullshit. these just seem like meaningless trends instead of actually trying to make UIs more intuitive.

frogposting is the new reaction image

this has been a question ive asked for 20 years.

I have no idea why being a mod produces such power tripping faggots.

One of the few forums i still visit has a hierarchy to mostly avoid this.

only 3 have the ability to ban, below that, 4 can only edit/delete posts, and below that a few more can do the same, but need approval from that admins first.

the major issue with forums is the child equation. unless you hard enforce the 18+ rule, you will never run a stable board.
another issue is the mod problem as stated before. too often, those too young are made mods. we all know the result of that

it is sad that a chapter of the internet is coming to an end. it wasnt perfect, but it sure as shit was better than our current solution.

sadly, as with most things, the internet was monetized and is quickly being consolidated into a few dozen major sites that we only visit.

Internet globalism. Soon, small communities will be put to an end. Reddit is a shit-tier platform, I hope it goes down and the users will fuck off back to real life.

>xDDD im such an introvert ;)
>intp masterrace
>t. reddit

>I have no idea why being a mod produces such power tripping faggots.
insecure losers who never got anywhere in life see the opportunity to shit on everyone to feel powerful and important for once in their lives

A lot of people will freak out if you accompany a post with an anime girl. Like it isn't a website staple since forever.

Those """people"""" are the newfag redditor vermin normalfag scum and their freakout should be accompanied by textless replies of additional anime girls.

That is just Sup Forums, ignore Sup Forums

fuck off shill

I dont think so

>Almost an hour later
Case in point. Check'd.

>hi im a normie
>oh look, a web forum where i can communicate with people that share my hobbies and interest
>hmmm it says vBulletin in the bottom...
>let me check the github of this thing
>PEE EYTCH PEE? DISGUSTING, ILL STICK WITH FACEBOOK!

said no one ever

Ayyy nice