Bring back forums - ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

katelynburns.com • 1 day ago

Bring back forums

back in my day we accessed the slightly more ordered thoughts of a self-selected assortment of weirdos. it was called forums and we liked them 😤

Comments

fresnel.bsky.social•1 day ago

I specifically want whatever feminist sci-fi forum I was in where folks said Suzette Haden Elgin said not to read book 3 of Native Tongues and she was writing a replacement to come back just so I can make them show me where they read this because I've seen zero evidence in the succeeding decades.

thewerle.bsky.social•1 day ago

🎶Let's go back to a website 🎶

elpoeta.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes

klezmerstyle.bsky.social•1 day ago

The Unwashed Villagers forum for Fallout 1 and 2

(even showed up as a random encounter in 2 where a bunch of peasants named after forum members kicked the shit out of a banned troll!)

thebtskink.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm still hanging on to the Comingsoon dot net forums since 2001. The site discontinued the forums so a handful of us moved elsewhere.

zeemev.bsky.social•1 day ago

Where posters were forged

averagehistorian.bsky.social•1 day ago

I long for the forums

friendofdax.bsky.social•1 day ago

Oh this is bringing so much nostalgia. Forums were pretty great.

aaronsofaer.bsky.social•1 day ago

XenForo remains actually really good TBH

jrh18966.bsky.social•1 day ago

I miss them so much. We were great little communities of weirdos.

mjfrombuffalo.bsky.social•1 day ago

I'm in a still-active forum I joined in 2001

queengwenevere.bsky.social•1 day ago

I even miss the inevitable drama!

At least it was OUR drama, in our weird little group, with our weird little infighting where we all knew the Forum Lore, and not “1000 random drama bots out of nowhere” drama

megaforte84.bsky.social•1 day ago

I miss participating in fandom through places where the mods could say "You, OUT, an IP-ban be upon you" to anyone who tried to start 'why do any of you even like this' trouble enough times without cutting them off from anything else online but you could also find things through standard searches.

sunkernplus.bsky.social•1 day ago

Remembering the moon girl (?) magazine forums....lots of memories....I remember the story about kumatora from mother 3 I wrote...and the story about a girl in an African country who was trafficked into slavery to make chocolate (I was obsessed with free trade chocolate back then)

whimsicalnerd.bsky.social•1 day ago

Please. I was thinking about this in the shower the other day. I just want to be able to lurk, stop making me join a discord.

unclewaffles.bsky.social•1 day ago

Something Awful's forums are back baby!

nullski.bsky.social•1 day ago

SA is the progenitor of our neo-fascist American regime.

crusina.bsky.social•1 day ago

Yes

rincewind.run•1 day ago

“forums and irc were the pinnacle of the internet” is a take I will stand by until the end of time

ket.bsky.social•1 day ago

we are shoulder to shoulder on this

trashmuppet.bsky.social•22 hours ago

web 2.0 was a mistake

clearlyclaire.bsky.social•1 day ago

https://bsky.app/profile/clearlyclaire.bsky.social/post/3lfdqu4ct622n

kidyossarian.bsky.social•1 day ago

It allowed us to form relationships with the 15 friends we are supposed to have, instead of this morass where we're lucky to pick up 3.

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

If you accept this, though, you have to consider the possibility that the healthiest current social media platform... is Reddit

greybunny.bsky.social•1 day ago

Until recently. Alas, it is thoroughly infested with LLMs these days.

voidcritter.bsky.social•1 day ago

Unironically yes, most of the hobby related subs are fine and the assholes tend to self segregate into their own subs

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

I know, it's just depressing.

harmonygritz.bsky.social•1 day ago

There are roads we’re not gonna go down just because a few of my fellow oldsters miss USENET

sarahvb.bsky.social•1 day ago

It is, because they saw they had a problem and actually did something about it. How many institutions can claim that these days?

galalefey.bsky.social•1 day ago

Reddit and Discord

queengwenevere.bsky.social•1 day ago

I gotta say, if I’m searching for any random niche thing, I invariably find the answers on… Reddit

It’s somehow become a lynchpin of the internet

rincewind.run•1 day ago

I think this is obviously correct!

joekatz45.bsky.social•1 day ago

OH NO

absolutereality.blog•23 hours ago

I think Reddit forums + Bluesky’s composable, customizable, shareable moderation would be the perfect social media experience.

absolutereality.blog•23 hours ago

Reddit comments have worsened so much in the past few years. It’s a much more unpleasant experience now than using Bluesky unless you are on very niche subreddits.