Why post in a forum, when you can follow Kim Kardashian on Twitter along with millions of other zombies. Does ATOT have the fun of playing Pokeman Go, where you can be led into park and robbed at gunpoint? Millennials have refined fun.
Why post in a forum, when you can follow Kim Kardashian on Twitter along with millions of other zombies. Does ATOT have the fun of playing Pokeman Go, where you can be led into park and robbed at gunpoint? Millennials have refined fun.
Btw, reddit, twitter, facebook etc, these sites all have awful, slow and bugous interface... I still like traditional vBulletin or PHP bulletin board system much more.
They don't go there for the interface. They go there for the human interaction. Even interacting with the dumbest mofo on the planet will trump the best interface every day of the week and twice on Sunday. That's why it's hilarious to see a company buy the forums and invest their resources to changing the interface when the old one was already miles ahead of anything offered by sites with more than twice as much traffic, while neglecting to understand the human to human interaction they desire.
You may ask why pray tell would interaction with the dumbest sack of molten marshmallow for brained troglodytes beat a great interface. Simple. People come to forums seeking information on a question they have, but that is not why they stay. They stay for the feeling they get when they get into their first argument and think they've won.
There's a funny cartoon out there of some guy on his computer calling out to his significant other: "Honey I'll be right there but first I have to prove this guy wrong." Well I'm paraphrasing as I don't remember the exact quote, but that's the gist of it.
Say what you want about the future popularity of forums, I still get way more than a I like when doing a web search.
Naer is at the foot of the bed on his cellphone
It is somewhat true, you are correct that they don't come there for the interface but interaction, however it has been proven over a time probably to anyone that sites with bad interface usually do have a crap content, and FB and all that social media nonsense usually does have a crap content. Reddit and Facebook groups are much less likely to have any good people around the subject they represent, unlike established forums which do host dozens of qualified professionals, hobbyists and enthusiasts. Forums are better structured and better archived because it's easily to retrieve old threads via any search engine and so on, do that on FB lol. I think that for enthusiasts forums will always be here and be preferred method of interaction. FB is for those who want to share pictures and basic information, and offload of these users from forums does not bother me or those who want to argue all the time, they are welcome on FB where they can collect likes(wut, likes are here too, nevermind).They don't go there for the interface. They go there for the human interaction. Even interacting with the dumbest mofo on the planet will trump the best interface every day of the week and twice on Sunday. That's why it's hilarious to see a company buy the forums and invest their resources to changing the interface when the old one was already miles ahead of anything offered by sites with more than twice as much traffic, while neglecting to understand the human to human interaction they desire.
You may ask why pray tell would interaction with the dumbest sack of molten marshmallow for brained troglodytes beat a great interface. Simple. People come to forums seeking information on a question they have, but that is not why they stay. They stay for the feeling they get when they get into their first argument and think they've won. Who would be easy to beat in an argument but someone of literally inferior intellect?
They come to have their questions answered by those of superior knowledge and/or intellect. But once that is over, they stay to beat the snot out of the dummies in an argument and feel superior themselves. There is also the emotional validation aspect.
There's a funny cartoon out there of some guy on his computer calling out to his significant other: "Honey I'll be right there but first I have to prove this guy wrong." Well I'm paraphrasing as I don't remember the exact quote, but that's the gist of it.
Let's be honest, it would be that way here too if given the chance.
On the bright side, I bet that everything that Mayne ever posted would magically disappear overnight
That's why it's hilarious to see a company buy the forums and invest their resources to changing the interface when the old one was already miles ahead of anything offered by sites with more than twice as much traffic, while neglecting to understand the human to human interaction they desire.
They haven't even managed yet to produce an alternative theme for the forums, despite weeks now of complaints and suggestions. Who knows if they even have anyone working on it. Another example was the database migration and not managing to transfer a custom field like the email address required for the For Sale forum. If the developers were too clueless to modify the migration code to include fields like that, it could have easily been done after the fact.
Don't take this personally, but can you explain why they should? It is very hard to see how the site monetizes these forums. So how much effort should they expend? Yes, I am told there are ads, but even the most non-tech savvy members (like me) are blocking them.
there are a lot of millennials on this forum, you goon
I failed to anticipate the veracity of Kim K's butt followers. Me bad.
Purch is a bottom feeder in the digital content industry. They buy dying sites like Anandtech for the residual traffic and nothing more.
I never could get into reddit, the interface is not intuitive at all or flow well and just frustrates me. Though perhaps I've just been doing it wrong.
I think that everyone uses sites like Reddit now. Some of their subreddits are good, but some of them have such a herd mentality that they'll downvote your posts or comments to oblivion if you dare to disagree with them.
It is trash and I've seen a lot of people complain about it, so it just ain't us. You'd probably get used it if you liked the site, but in general it's way too full of know-it-all, elitist tools for me. Reminds me of the computer lab back at school. *shudder*