Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

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Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by Mark » Tue May 23, 2023 10:38 am

I mean... Facebook groups are great and everything. But are they the ideal?
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by analogika » Tue May 23, 2023 11:06 am

Facebook groups suck. Search is shit (the concept is to keep people interacting, not to provide a resource), and visibility depends upon algorithms.

MUCH prefer forums. But I'm old.

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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by kslight » Tue May 23, 2023 11:38 am

Someone did an age group survey on gearspace recently - according to that the average user I think was around 50. I would assume TOMB is similarly skewed, if not older. I assume I am one of the youngest people that is here regularly, at 38.

So I would say if there aren’t more young people on forums, especially these low volume ones like tomb will almost certainly die out as it’s members do.

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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by emrr » Tue May 23, 2023 6:38 pm

I don’t see the point of FB groups unless you just like to see the same few things repeated over and over again, and can’t find anything. Forums make a lot more sense as knowledge bases. Does anyone go to libraries anymore?
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by Mark » Wed May 24, 2023 1:59 am

I haven't been to one in decades. But that's only because I'm really bad at returning books
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by kslight » Wed May 24, 2023 5:11 am

emrr wrote:
Tue May 23, 2023 6:38 pm
I don’t see the point of FB groups unless you just like to see the same few things repeated over and over again, and can’t find anything. Forums make a lot more sense as knowledge bases. Does anyone go to libraries anymore?

I hate FB and FB groups. I do have a library card, but I can just checkout books on my phone so actually visiting the library is not usually necessary…

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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by digitaldrummer » Wed May 24, 2023 6:40 am

I don't really like FB groups much either - for the same reasons already listed but also because eventually the same idiots show up just to hear themselves talk (or I guess see their own posts). And some of them are on other forums too. I left several FB groups because of people that are there to just make trouble or the group is overrun by spam and fake ads, and such. FB puts on this act about trying to stop all of that but the fact is they NEED every user - real or not - so they will never prevent it. Same for Twitter, Instagram, etc. But something new will eventually come along. I doubt these old forums will make much of a comeback. there's not even an app... 8)
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by markjazzbassist » Wed May 24, 2023 10:52 am

i feel like forum has a strong user base. it might be small but there are new posts daily and when there are questions/answers they are legitimate things, not fluff/comedy/filler. quality over quantity here at TOMB

as for the age thing, i'm also 38 so i guess i'm on the younger end here too. i love the wisdom of the elders here, it is invaluable.

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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by winky dinglehoffer » Wed May 24, 2023 10:59 am

I'd say maybe.
The young folks (I have a college-age kid, so he & his friends are what I go by) are moving away from FB and Twitter and to a lesser extent IG and more toward Discord. I could potentially see a move toward something forum-esque from there. I think forum software would have to evolve in order to hold the interest of youngsters. I think the reason us mature folks put up with this stuff is that we kind of grew up with it. This shit was rad back when "rad" was a rad word to use. But now forums feel like 56K in a Gigabit world. If they could evolve without losing their essential forum-ness, they might resurge.

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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by vvv » Wed May 24, 2023 1:11 pm

I stopped using Faecesbook when they allowed a certain orange turd to return. I also got kinda sick of my RWNJ "friends".

I will now be boycotting the Muskwitter, as well, due to FLA fascists, etc.

IMO, social media is a deathtrap for civil and sane discourse, altho' I do some blogs (mostly political) and a a cuppla music forums like here and talkbass. (I actually have me own small one of the latter, but just for a group of less than 10 regulars - I kinda inherited it from the founder who developed other priorities.)

I sure do miss myspace, tho'. /s
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by bobbydj » Fri Aug 11, 2023 6:28 am

analogika wrote:
Tue May 23, 2023 11:06 am
Facebook groups suck. Search is shit (the concept is to keep people interacting, not to provide a resource), and visibility depends upon algorithms.

MUCH prefer forums. But I'm old.
This (apologies for the belated reply).

FB is shit for the kinds of things that message boards do well. I've seen various non-music related forums die over the last decade and, as they have been taken by web rot, many, many excellent archives of knowledge have gone too. I'm talking about motoring, car and bike maintenance, stuff like that. Some incredible model specific forums for Honda and Kawasaki etc. totally vanished.

At least the TOMBs are still here even if they have long since been covered over by accumulated drifts of digital tumble weeds.
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by Nick Sevilla » Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:57 am

I love the TOMB.
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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by markjazzbassist » Fri Aug 11, 2023 8:18 am

same here, i check in daily for new threads and to put my .02 in. i love this place.

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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by vvv » Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:48 pm

oh yep, I'm here at least once a day, because this shite is real (not posing)

I'll do searches for info at gs, and I read news sites and blogs (reco emptywheel!) regular-like, some tech stuff and some music stuff like RS and Consequence and Pitchfork once a month, talkbass ...

lotsa uchoob for the politics and live choons/concerts, gear reviews, cooking, tech and repair stuff

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I ain' leave here 'til all y'all do


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Re: Could Forums Like This Make a Comeback?

Post by Scodiddly » Fri Aug 11, 2023 7:51 pm

I still check in here, thought also fb because that's where the people still are. Hoping this kind of forum will be able to survive and even grow.

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