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Think those are just called forums?
Ah, I see what you mean. I feel like that adds a lot of moderation overhead though because it needs people there to stop nefarious grave-digging.
Cheers, still use forums for very granular info. I think it's more of a scale issue. If you put the volume of users on these niche forums as are on reddit/lemmy, I think the multi-post nonsense would ensue. I remember having to tell a lot of people to use the search in forums. Sounds similar.
Kind of like if there was a Lemmy Star Trek server and it hosted a bunch of communities with different topics that are all related to Star Trek?
The architecture is in place to do what you're talking about. Just needs the right people to adopt the approach over time.
That's just a function of how the host server sorts posts. ~~I am fairly sure that functionality could be implemented without the need to even fork the version.~~
You can go to your user setting and select new comments and do this now.
Some things like federated identities, or even federated content would go a long way into making forums a thing again.
I still think lemmy could use a "community type" enum where you can say what kind of discussion you want there.
I miss forums so much. A federated backend for forums would be nice. I'm so tired of having these giant communities of angry strangers if I want to talk about anything
In theory, but I used to hate when people would get mad at threads getting brought back from the dead. If the person has a question relevant to the topic, why start a new thread?
Exactly, some people would complain about bringing back zombie threads, while others whine that people didn't use the search feature to find existing threads on the topic. You can't win either way with forum gatekeepers.
That's a culture-thing. I'm a member of two forums that are still pretty active. One views dead thread revivals as amusing, the other almost literally has a celebration in-thread when it happens as all the members with older posts in it come piling in. Heck, the second forum has a thread so active that people literally ask for, and get, recaps for the last X amount of time for it.
Ironically that’s also lemmy https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmyBB
Oh yeah i forgot to mention it hasn’t been maintained since the huge influx of users