STOP KILLING FORUMS - KEEP THE FORUMS ALIVE

[Im_CIA]

@kerdios @Mira @mrglanet@Erasmus Roterodamnsus@Generic-User @Kraken

Dear friends, colleges, and the vast swaths of people I didn't mention here: 

As you may heard from the last video chat, Ross plans to shutter the forums at some point in the near future. 
In this unfortunate scenario, there is a non-zero chance that BTGBullseye will- God forbid- make the last post in the Last Post Wins thread and cement himself in history- and he will be Happy. We cannot allow this man to have any more smug satisfaction, so I think we should all petition for the forums to remain open. 

Additionally, many de facto anonymous people *do* still comment on Video posts, and Game List entries. Or whatever. 
There's also archival work for subtitles and stuff. 

The Temu spammers will die off eventually, and self-hosted forums are a rarity these days. But with how centralized and policed the aggregates are becoming, you never know when this could come back in handy. 
 

[BTGBullseye]

Sadly, forums are in general a dying breed. They aren't addictive enough to draw the crowd from the more common social media sources. Nobody wants to converse anymore, they just want to post 15 second videos and press a button to tell others they like their 15 sec videos.

[Im_CIA]

That's near-sighted as per my last point. Who knows how the internet will unravel. 
Also, where will that depressed Serbian guy go if there are no more forums?

[GordonBleu]

Where will I be able to obtain my temu discount codes without these forums?

[kerdios]

So what you are saying is we should all file a GCRP data deletion request so our data won't be kept at ross's indefinitely after the forum closes. Am I right?

 

Edited 17 hours ago by kerdios (see edit history)

[BTGBullseye]

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That's near-sighted as per my last point. Who knows how the internet will unravel.

Not really. Just as Bulletin Boards died out, so to are forums. Note, not all of the old BBs are gone, so to will some forums remain, but as long as the human attention span remains finite, there will never be anywhere near enough draw to keep people on forums in lieu of social media sites. There are only so many hours in the day, and social media gives a much bigger dose of brain happy juices than forums do.

[mrglanet]

I want the forums to stay, at least to be archived or to be used as a place to submit subs.

This place would be a good bulwark against enshittification and platform centralization if there's a way to combat the Temu spam effectively. Where will people go once discord and reddit require you to scan your face or ID to use their sites?

 

Also, what is it with kerdios and BTG being argumentative?

Edited 9 hours ago by mrglanet (see edit history)