I really hope that’s the case. Forums are the peak of communication through internet, social media and discord will be always be inferior means of communication.
There have been several this month and I, too, expect more to follow. Communication with stakeholders is fairly critical, so it doesn’t make much sense to rely on the benevolence of third parties to maintain it.
There’s the old minecraft forums and its still up iirc.
We are about to see a huge renaissance of individual forums of all sorts, I think.
I really hope that’s the case. Forums are the peak of communication through internet, social media and discord will be always be inferior means of communication.
There have been several this month and I, too, expect more to follow. Communication with stakeholders is fairly critical, so it doesn’t make much sense to rely on the benevolence of third parties to maintain it.
Companies like this really need to get back to hosting their own forums and stop relying on centralized third parties for everything.