From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • GhostalmediaEnglish
    11•2 months ago

    My migration was primarily driven by threading, voting, and ads.

    1. forums (community topics) >
    2. slashdot (community topics + threads) >
    3. digg / reddit (community topics + threads + comment voting) >
    4. Lemmy (community topics + threads + comment voting - ads)
    • db0OPEnglish
      5•2 months ago

      slashdot (community topics + threads) >

      slashdot hads voting though. In fact I wish we had the same sort of votes slashdot had. up/down votes are so limited :(

      • GhostalmediaEnglish
        1•2 months ago

        I should’ve clarified.

        It had post voting, but no comment voting.

        • db0OPEnglish
          2•2 months ago

          It had post voting, but no comment voting.

          Doesn’t your screenshot show the opposite?

          • GhostalmediaEnglish
            1•2 months ago

            Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.

            Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.

            • @linearchaosEnglish
              1•2 months ago

              Yes, it didn’t re-sort by default. You can, however, hide based on score. so kinda?

              They also used to (maybe they still do) have meta-moderation where you could flag things as funny or insightful. I always considered that a nice touch but it didn’t allow sorting either. .