TPM IS BACK, EVERYONE CELEBRATE

[Mr.E]

The problem is nu-social media doesn't replace traditional "bulletin board" forums. Facebook and Instagram and whatnot feed you posts based on an algorithm. Reddit and live chats, including Discord, feed you time-limited posts. Forums organize posts by recent activity (by default) and there's no expiration date, so they facilitate discussion over time better. But they're dying because The Powers That Be can't forcefeed you ads as easily if the things you actually want are easily accessible.

[Number1ChanseyFan]

The problem is nu-social media doesn't replace traditional "bulletin board" forums. Facebook and Instagram and whatnot feed you posts based on an algorithm. Reddit and live chats, including Discord, feed you time-limited posts. Forums organize posts by recent activity (by default) and there's no expiration date, so they facilitate discussion over time better. But they're dying because The Powers That Be can't forcefeed you ads as easily if the things you actually want are easily accessible.

All great points!! BB forums are still the best for discussion and for community-building. It sucks that they are all dying off, because they really are good at what they do... I'm sure that a lot of kids/teens today probably never got to experience just how awesome the forum experience can be. Even here, where activity has been non-existent, it is still super easy to find old conversations/posts/memories if you want to look for them, and it's easy enough to jump in on an old conversation and bring it up. Really all that we are missing is traffic, if we had people posting, TPM could pick up right where it left off many years ago...

Everything that was old becomes new again... 80's and 90's stuff is cool once again, (actually, it was always cool!) perhaps someday in the not-so-distant future, forums will be "cool" again as well. <3