many people who have joined have related their extended stints on communities Reddit, Dig, Slashdot, or even older places like Usenet, and i’m super interested in what your best memories and favorite experiences on places like that have been in your time using them

  •  catacomb   ( @catacomb@beehaw.org ) 
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    811 months ago

    I miss the days when sites would run their own forums (remember phpBB?) and we had huge, organic communities for everything.

    I think the mobile web killed most of that off or at least struck the final blow. The sites weren’t particularly mobile friendly and they’d ask you to install an app like Tapatalk which nobody wanted.