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1. Nel (nelenese@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 00:02:16 JST Nel

   • cool_boy_mew
   @coolboymew maybe forums dying wasn't a bad idea
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 00:02:16 JST cool_boy_mew

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     @Nelenese massive public forums are also a mistake
     Corpos forums and other too specific communities around a tech subject are also usually not very good
   • cool_boy_mew (coolboymew@shitposter.club)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 01:16:21 JST cool_boy_mew

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     • bane (bane/post)
     @bane @Nelenese
     
     >Corporate ones big and small can be good when functional employees are actually replying.
     
     They're good for actual Q&A, but not as a community
     
     >The problem is that the majority are either bullshit "customer answered" forums or some retarded diversity hire/woman is responsible for replying with copy/paste
     
     The Apple forums are disgusting because of this. 100% community driven and Apple can't do no wrong
     
     And then there's the Microsoft forum for the latter
     
     And then there's the Google services forums for neither and everyone is just angry at Google because shit's stupid, it doesn't work, they don't answer and they remove functionality
   • bane (bane/post) (bane@www.banepo.st)'s status on Friday, 13-Jan-2023 01:16:22 JST bane (bane/post)

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     • cool_boy_mew
     @coolboymew @Nelenese Corporate ones big and small can be good when functional employees are actually replying. The problem is that the majority are either bullshit "customer answered" forums or some retarded diversity hire/woman is responsible for replying with copy/paste. In both cases, they end up like OP pic eventually, in various ways.
     Forums can still be great especially when they don't have the bullshit additional social features enabled (beyond writing threads and posts), and when you don't have the problems of diversity hires running them. For example, DSLReports is still good, as far as I know. For companies that actually want to provide effective tailored support, it's easier to run support on Discord than to host a dead or fucked up forum (spending time/$ moderating the spam or fallout from mental illness).
     Smaller forums can be great when they are about niche things. The forum for monitortests.com isn't very active but the developer/owner generally replies to every thread and the forum doesn't have all those retarded social features enabled.
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