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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)

submitted 5 months ago by i_have_no_enemies@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] EarMaster@lemmy.world 44 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Discourse exists and is free to self-host and open source. Compared to classic forum software (like most *bb variants) it is a pleasure to use and feels not like a remnant of a lost age.

The (only?) downside is the similar name to Discord, but that's not them to blame, because they had their name first.

[–] dan@upvote.au 2 points 5 months ago

NodeBB is probably less painful to deal with as a system adminstrator, since it doesn't use Ruby.

Lots of forum software used to have threaded discussions, but most of them settled on a more linear commenting experience, maybe 20 years ago.