Are forums dying or almost dead?
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froggyboy604
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Quora, StackExchange, and Yahoo Answers could be considered forums because members posts questions and topics in different categories like cars, animals, and computers to ask, and other members reply to topics and questions like forums. All three of these sites are still popular.
I think the days of the independent forum created and maintained by 1 person, or a few people are becoming less popular, and smaller forums are being replace by huge forums created by startups, big companies, and medium sized companies.
I think the days of the independent forum created and maintained by 1 person, or a few people are becoming less popular, and smaller forums are being replace by huge forums created by startups, big companies, and medium sized companies.
davidwhite
Acquaintance
Well i totally dis-agree with this fact.
Although social media is grooming day by day but forums have their own standard.
No they are actually not dying and you can go with forums without any second thought.
Although social media is grooming day by day but forums have their own standard.
No they are actually not dying and you can go with forums without any second thought.
juststeven
Madly Diligent
Over the years, creating forums that look good have become easier and easier. It's no longer, a few select active sites. The community of forum users as a whole is a lot more spread out over a larger number of forums. Forums will always survive alongside social networks for as long as they both still stand as forums are usually niche-related and they're not all about communicating with your friends whereas social networks are cenetered towards your friends and making short updates about your life.
I think forums will always be around no matter what. I think its only because of Facebook, Myspace and Twitter did Forums take a hit. People will eventually grow tired of these huge corporate sites and want something else.
it's going to be a long time before people become tired of facebook as it's a easy way to see what people are doing.
i'm starting to see more and more everyday as i'm finding it hard to get my forums off the ground let alone seeing FP not being active as it was 4 years ago 🙁
looking at a big site like hack forums they use to have 1000 members on at once now it's 500 guess it's still good but it's going down.
i'm starting to see more and more everyday as i'm finding it hard to get my forums off the ground let alone seeing FP not being active as it was 4 years ago 🙁
looking at a big site like hack forums they use to have 1000 members on at once now it's 500 guess it's still good but it's going down.
AlexTheGenius
Acquaintance
I think that forums are not dead, they're just going through a revolutionary breakpoint as more and more forum softwares perfect what they are doing (examples including the release of XenForo, MyBB moving into the 1.8 version phase, phpBB getting ready to release version 3.1, etc).
Personally, I only run a forum as a form of tech support for the Debian-based Linux distribution I develop for, but I still love forums, and I agree with Spudster, as social networks become big data collectors, people are moving to other things.
Personally, I only run a forum as a form of tech support for the Debian-based Linux distribution I develop for, but I still love forums, and I agree with Spudster, as social networks become big data collectors, people are moving to other things.
Your Social Village
Addicted
Forums are still useful especially when a group is too large for a facebook page. They can categorise their content when using the forums which makes it easier for their members to participate on the topics.
I'm not sure they are, I just think the genre of forum that is popular is quite trendy and therefore changes quite frequently.
That and the age of the person that views the forum platform as dying will have aged (obviously) from when they first entered a forum community, meaning they and everyone on the forums they originally joined have aged with them, resulting in different priorities and forums dying off as a result of this.
That and the age of the person that views the forum platform as dying will have aged (obviously) from when they first entered a forum community, meaning they and everyone on the forums they originally joined have aged with them, resulting in different priorities and forums dying off as a result of this.
Well you can only hack a computer so many different ways. Just like you can only promote a forum so many different ways.
Create something unique. Really unique. Then you'll be proud of it and you won't get depressed over it. I speak from experience.
Create something unique. Really unique. Then you'll be proud of it and you won't get depressed over it. I speak from experience.
I think that Facebook has taken a large step outside of being able to replace forums as a means of conversation, as it is difficult now to keep up with what people are talking about on Facebook.
I've gotten a couple of web site requests from businesses that had previously thought they could get by with just a Facebook page, now that so few people are seeing their Facebook posts unless they pay to promote every message, that isn't working out so well for them.
In much the same way, I think we'll see more people looking outside of Facebook, not that they will necessarily leave Facebook.
I've gotten a couple of web site requests from businesses that had previously thought they could get by with just a Facebook page, now that so few people are seeing their Facebook posts unless they pay to promote every message, that isn't working out so well for them.
In much the same way, I think we'll see more people looking outside of Facebook, not that they will necessarily leave Facebook.
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