15 sats \ 4 replies \ @OriginalSize 4h \ on: What happened to the bitcoin talk forum? bitcoin
Didn't it get hacked? That plus cycles I think led to lulls in which a new venue saw growth into each next bubble. Reddit I think carried the torch at least during the blocksize war.
i mean, in the earlier web days forums were the thing for sure, before reddit. i used to spend hours a day on a forum for Russian language learners in the early 2000s, made real friends there, including a legit best friend that i later ended up working with in Moscow.
i miss those days in a way and i miss the connection, maybe the rise of reddit killed the velocity.
sn does give early forum type vibes though which is probably why i gravitate to it
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I mostly appreciated the basic algorithm of reverse chronological plus last bump time on forums but also liked things more compartmentalized. That did make it easier to forget about one though if you didn't need to visit it enough.
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i remember a sort of compulsion to visit every day, then again, i also visit SN every day.
still, one thing for sure is that reddit has a very douche vibe to it, always has, in most of the subs.
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The people still on reddit are the ones who will tolerate the platform being locked down API-wise and all the subs taken over by admins. It was good for a time. Now it seems I need to go to like five places to get an overall sense of what's going on and like the forum days I don't mind it.
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