Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

beep@piefed.world · 3 months ago

Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

mjr@infosec.pub · 3 months ago

Yeah, wants Firefox not a more cotrollable fork, spits its dummy out at certain adblocker settings, doesn’t like privacy lists loaded into chromium, and so on. It seems fussy, probably because it’s quite snoopy and sends tracking info back to the server as you read posts.

Harry@lemmy.world · 3 months ago

I don’t think any of that is an issue if you’re running self hosted. We literally don’t get any of that info/use any of it lol.

Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

Bring Back Crappy Forums: Web forums were rough around the edges and faded in relevance as seemingly better options emerged. But what if we had stuck with them?

What We Lost When We Quit Using Crappy Old Web Forums