edit: I ain’t complaining. If reddit engagement is dying and forums are taking it’s place,
Forums are more private and I generally hate reddit :)
I want to know just who these people are? I mean, the success of forums have been a surprise to me. And recently, in my experience Tech reddits (linux distros and such) haven’t been getting as much attention as they used to get.
If I have a question regarding MX Linux or someone has asked a question regrading it, it seems reasonable to me that I would find it on Reddit. Since there are generally more people on reddit than on forums and reddit is like a super forum with almost everything under the sun attached to it and showing up in your feed. So, I might not be passionate enough to just stay on MX forum, but I will get enough variety on reddit that I will be able to stay interested and browse it more.
I don’t know enough about MX Linux to frequent the forums, not do I want to know/read every small issue someone else has. But, if I come across a post on reddit while I am just browsing through my feed, I will make sure I try to help them as much as possible, but yeah, I don’t see myself going to forums to try and help people. So, I don’t get why forums are so successful.
Are there really so many people to frequent forums and provide answers to people who seem to be in trouble. I love MX but it’s not my passion and frankly, I am surprised that there are many people for whom it seems like it is.
I’m on every website I’ve ever heard of and so I’ve been exposed to a great deal of forums. The most popular of these is the TV Tropes forums. People go bananas over it. They’re like places of mental salience, that’s the main takeaway. I was also popular (if that’s the right word) on the DeviantArt forums (you might be familiar with me if you’ve looked up my username on Lemmy on DeviantArt), though it’s a hotbed of hate and inceldom, especially the last thing. And now you may begin to see a nemesis in the mix.