Forums are like classrooms/workshops in a school...

[BridgeConsoleMasher]

Ones with top-response-filtering are like lecture halls.

Twitter is like running into people on the street.
Facebook is like a coffee shop.
Instagram is like a shopping mall.

The declining nature of forums is like people graduating from school and outgrowing them despite how much conventions stay the same when you leave school and converse elsewhere.

[Karha of Honor]

Ones with top-response-filtering are like lecture halls.

Twitter is like running into people on the street.
Facebook is like a coffee shop.
Instagram is like a shopping mall.

The declining nature of forums is like people graduating from school and outgrowing them despite how much conventions stay the same when you leave school and converse elsewhere.

Just move to a hugbox.

[Beelzquill]

So you think internet forums are a "phase" that you and I are currently in that we'll grow out of? I don't think your analogy really works since forums can maintain steady members for years like spacebattles or something awful(though I haven't really seen what they've been up to for a while so I could be wrong). I think of forums like clubs that some people filter in and out of and some stay for a long time formed in one common interest that develops overtime.

[Karha of Honor]

So you think internet forums are a "phase" that you and I are currently in that we'll grow out of? I don't think your analogy really works since forums can maintain steady members for years like spacebattles or something awful(though I haven't really seen what they've been up to for a while so I could be wrong). I think of forums like clubs that some people filter in and out of and some stay for a long time formed in one common interest that develops overtime.

That recent Spacerbattles drama...

[Yukaphile]

Again, Serebii.net is still going strong, as is Trek BBS, and others. The smaller forums may have a hard time though. I mean, will the technology for forums ever become obsolete because most are on Discord or Twitter? Possibly. But that's still a long ways off. SF Debris is himself an admitted "niche of a niche." So it may just be we need to finally admit these are very tiny forums compared to the rest of the online world. I see numerous other small forums, but they do just well.

[Admiral X]

Forums are like panels at a convention.

[Karha of Honor]

Again, Serebii.net is still going strong, as is Trek BBS, and others. The smaller forums may have a hard time though. I mean, will the technology for forums ever become obsolete because most are on Discord or Twitter? Possibly. But that's still a long ways off. SF Debris is himself an admitted "niche of a niche." So it may just be we need to finally admit these are very tiny forums compared to the rest of the online world. I see numerous other small forums, but they do just well.

Didn't faceboomk activity drop sharply?

Don't a lot of people move to Instagram where they mostly like and comment on pictures?

It's logical that that the more long form digital interractions would move back to forums.

Forums are like panels at a convention.

This is one wild convention. Someone played the suicide card on me online for the 2nd time.