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698 Name: (*゚ー゚) : 1993-09-9843 22:12

>>690
Cmon, we've all experienced both and know that the corporate-owned versions are the worst of the bunch. A corporation has no serious incentive to make a forum good; good forums don't make money. on the contrary flame wars drive engagement; twitter and Facebook would be insolvent without the nazis (maybe reddit too). I will even go as far as to say reddit was better before it was owned by conde nast (though it was still a corporate site at that time, it used to have a reputation for being less full of self-promotion and groupthink than digg in particular).

The bigger problem is just that corporate sites have captured attention to the extent that there can't be another big indie forum that tries to fix the problems with forums. There hasn't been anything new on that front since 4chan. That and increased regulatory burden (dmca, counterterrorism, etc) on indie forum owners i would guess. The latter half of the sites you list were never trying to make forums good, they were trying to make forums profitable. Making forums good was always just PR for them.

Also IRC might have serious potential if it had decent logging capacities, embedded media, and a less archaic interface, none of which are problem with the users

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