Why DigitalPoint is Dead?

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How sad…

I first started here 21 years ago!!!

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EthernetServers said: ↑

I feel like Discord has killed a lot of forums, made worse by the fact that Discord added a threads feature back in 2021.

I know of a few communities that used to have a forum and Discord server, and they kept the forum alive because certain things were better discussed in a thread style (like this thread here on DP) rather than a load of messages that just get lost easily. Then, Discord added the threads feature, and that removed their need to maintain their forum, so it was deleted.

Having said that, some forums shoot themselves in the foot by having too much advertising, a tired looking interface and lack of moderation. I see plenty of forums where spam bots have a field day...

AI has also made forums less attractive, which is something that Reddit suffers with as well. I personally cannot stand AI posts on forums (it's so obvious when a post is AI written).
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Discord didn’t cause forums to be inactive nor the death of certain ones. You can blame the rise of Reddit for this one.

Discord is just a newer version of AIM messenger and MSN/Skype, that’s all it is.

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#43

It's not dead.

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