We need to make people curious again! curiosity is what lead us to discover! :333
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I am here to rebel against the normie social media platforms. WE MUST REBEL
I’m content to ignore their continued existence. They aren’t worth my time or attention.
OMG!! I shared that opinion about melonland but on a sub conscious level, but you really put into words about why I tended not to engage with melonland. I really wanted to love that forum, but I didn’t love it. To an extent that frankly also applies to the Frutiger Aero Archive forum, despite that holding a special place in my heart as the first forum I ever joined, as someone really wanting for a forum revival.
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Love this idea. There’s so many blogs and blog directories popping up, and I’ve been spending so much time on the blogging side of the small web I totally forgot about forums until I found 32 bit cafe. I’m always a little shy to start posting somewhere but I love the idea of getting back into this side of the web to get away from being so reliant on big social media sites.
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that reminds me of my own forum i created with rusff back in 2021, it’s still up and running but it’s not active anymore and i lost the admin password for it
still tho it would be really cool if we actually went back to using forums and stuff like that
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hey lime! i swear i keep running into you… Were you the same lime360 that I met in the SDG, a skeuomorphism discord server? I used to be error.not.found, later Solinus.
I just realized that what might be holding the forum back from being revived is that many old forums tend to have an “oldhead” problem. Since forums declined in the 2010s, the only ones that remained on them were people that are, shall we say, stuck in their ways, and as a result, they became less and less open to new users, and perhaps also less appealing to younger generations. I think if we are to bring the forum back, that we should tackle the oldhead problem so younger generations are more likely to come back to forums as primary online communities, rather than just “the thing you use when windows acts up and have to put up with oldheads”.
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How do you suggest solving the oldhead problem?
I wouldn’t say no to being 18 again if I could keep my knowledge and experience, that’s for sure.
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Not fully sure where I am going with this point, but Brockhampton famously broke out from a friendship group on the KanyeToThe Forums (ktt2.com)
Idk if a 10 year old band counts as old headed or not, but clearly they are doing something right over there to have such a massive cultural impact
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Honestly as a late gen Z, I would really like to see younger generations create new forums for themselves rather than join existing forums that are 10-20 yrs old. The latter will result in culture clashing (see Eternal Sept) and will result in resentment and bitterness from both sides. Younger generations may be discouraged from using forums, while older generations may look at any newcomers with distrust.
I’m thinking that an easy to use forum hosting platform combined with the “old-web” aesthetics could help in the forum revival, like what Neocities and Nekoweb did to personal sites.
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idk, I think a lot of good can come from an appropriate mixing of ages. Diverse communities are more resilient to breaking down in petty squabbles (and I mean diverse in thought as well as identity), and there is genuinely a lot of knowledge which can only really be transferred by personal conversation where a wikipedia article wont do.
That said, as someone who is aged somewhere between Starbreaker and you (or at least what I am gonna guess your age is), I often find the youth culture of neocities and the like a little difficult to parse. So perhaps a well mixed community is better than entering as a minority? idk, food for thought.
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