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I guess it was a Marketing Sales person lol that dev wanted you to be a active member on Qoura
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I've gotten told this on a couple of big names sites in the past. I ignore such comments. Yes, forums are a bit old, but there are still plenty of people who enjoy them, and as the old saying goes, you can't please everyone! You do you, you do what makes YOU happy. If running a forum is your cup of tea, keep going at it. I'm a member of Quora, as well, but I do more reading than responding.
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I prefer forums. I like interacting with other people on forums and getting to know new cool people.
Depends on topic imo, if your intent is to bring in anyone born after 2000 (say, your topic's demograph happens to be full of people in that age range with a visible online presence) then prepare to be disappointed as they are over on Discord and Twitter and Reddit, they don't even know anything else or they gave up with forums back in 2016/17.
I'd say forums are not dead. In fact, online communities are very much alive. Reddit is an online forum and even Twitter are creating forums. The problem is that all those major players that you've listed have taken over the majority of traffic, which makes it hard for smaller and independent sites and communities to succeed.
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Quroa is a crappy place so I wouldn’t listen to what people say on there.
My site is a technology & mechanical forum I’m not sure the age range on that.
I hate Quroa tbh from Facebook to discord people just like quick garbage.
There’s nothing good about discord imo it’s just quick and easy so people use it.
I use Quora myself for authority development. But I'd never want to replace a forum with it.
Listen, when it comes to a forum vs. Quora or a forum vs. social media, we all have to remember one thing. Quora and social media is Rented Space meaning if they close shop, so does your community and you get nothing. With a forum, you have a database that you can transfer to other hosting services if your host goes out of service.
I think that is something to remember. The same goes with an email list, you have the email addresses of your subscribers but if you use a hosted email service or a group or something like that, you can lose it all, just like that.
And Quora and social media has expressed this in their terms, too!
Extremely extremely good point! 😀
That being said that just means forums will never truly go out unless companies start offering your data in SQL format!
I've never signed up to Quora so I have no real opinion of it.
What I can say is forums in general still provide the best format for meaningful conversation that has lasting value. They will survive in a similar form for a long time, especially if they continue to capitalize on their strengths.
Forums are more like libraries containing rich content which in turn documents history no matter how trivial the subject. Other forms of social media tend to be more disposable where content gets lost and therefore provides little or no history.
What I can say is forums in general still provide the best format for meaningful conversation that has lasting value. They will survive in a similar form for a long time, especially if they continue to capitalize on their strengths.
Forums are more like libraries containing rich content which in turn documents history no matter how trivial the subject. Other forms of social media tend to be more disposable where content gets lost and therefore provides little or no history.
I did but I’ve only used it once and didn’t like it at all.
I just hope generations to come adapt to forums, from what I can see is they like quick apps such as TikTok.
Right on! Snapchat for example that’s only a quick app content is gone after 24 hours.
I think the bigger issue isn't so much the design but actually getting people to use them. Trying to drag people off FB/twitter/G+ to use a forum you built elsewhere when they can get the same content and functionality on your social media is kinda pointless to most users and as a site owner I would rather point people to discuss things on my social media pages than try and build then moderate my own system.
T H I S.
People obsess over things being all in one place now
Yeah, but people now went everything LIVE feed LOL
I think that applies more to certain niches, I believe there's still hope for the rest of us that prefer gentle and considered discourse 🙂
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