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FediverseEnglish • 4 months ago

How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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How did we move from forums to Reddit, Facebook groups, and Discord?

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FediverseEnglish • 4 months ago

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 [...]

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Discord and Reddit also had uniquely improved their UIs over the existing options.
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  Until that API nonsense I was always using old.reddit because the redesign was ass.
  
  Discord is cool tho, better than skype gui for sure.

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