Are message forums passé?

[RationalLunacy]

A support group I'm a member of has had a Yahoogroup for years, but recently installed a JUB-style message forum on its own website.

Several of the members have complained that they do not want to use the new forum because they are passé.

What do you think? Are JUBbers still living in the 90s?

 

[Corny]

They were using a yahoo group before and call a forum being passé? They got something wrong there .. I can't imagine anything more 90s than yahoo groups and geocities homepages

 

[belamy]

What's the support group for, Moms Mabley-obsession?

 

[FPNY]

What's the support group for, Moms Mabley-obsession?

wildebeast fuckers anonymous wba for short

 

[Paws]

I once complained on a Yahoo Group that I'd rather have a message board because I don't like my mailbox being flooded with single "me too" messages.

I got told to "fuck off if I don't like it here, we like how comfortably you get all the messages mailed".

But even worse are websites of Linux software with a Windows port (Gimp, Inkscape...). Mailing lists are still the standard there.

Message boards are superior, even over chat and IM.

 

[belamy]

I assume the members of that group are about your age, aren't they? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychological_projection
Which doesn't mean they are not right

 

[swerve]

I was actually REALLY INTRIGUED by facebook...

But OTHER than that ONE exception -- I haven't found a better format than right here on JUB!!!

 

[Corny]

But even worse are websites of Linux software with a Windows port (Gimp, Inkscape...). Mailing lists are still the standard there.

That's due to their preference of having threading. Which looks horrible on boards. And for purists webforums are also a waste of ressources

 

[hermanding]

be sure not to be very influenced by any kind of herd mentality or pseudo-mentality
ding

 

[RationalLunacy]

here's the thing. You are essentially interacting with people you probably wouldnt recognised if you saw them (unless they have a posted photo)

Ummmm.... I know (and have met face-to-face) most of the people there.

 

[RationalLunacy]

They were using a yahoo group before and call a forum being passé? They got something wrong there .. I can't imagine anything more 90s than yahoo groups and geocities homepages

That's precisely what I was thinking, but I was waiting for someone else to say it first.

 

[jizzeater]

Message boards are the best format on the internet in my opinion. Conversations are easy to follow. Everything is right there on one page and you can read it at your own pace.

 

[Absolut]

Must...resist....creating....parody......


(Are message forums pâté?)

 

[SonOfSlobone]

I once complained on a Yahoo Group that I'd rather have a message board because I don't like my mailbox being flooded with single "me too" messages.

I got told to "fuck off if I don't like it here, we like how comfortably you get all the messages mailed".

But even worse are websites of Linux software with a Windows port (Gimp, Inkscape...). Mailing lists are still the standard there.

Message boards are superior, even over chat and IM.

I'm still trying to end the spam coming to my inbox cause I joined some perverted yahoo group 3 years ago in a moment of weakness. I think it was something like guys-who-like-to-look-at-pictures-of-military-induction-physical-exams...

 

[star-warrior]

If message forums are well maintained, they keep a good audience. Like JUB.

I've seen so many message forums spring up, then become like ghost towns. That's kinda sad in away, it was mainly due to the owners deciding to divide up into too many niche areas that not everyone wanted to participate in, and eventually, the core dies, and everything else becomes dead....

As for google groups - is there a worst way to interact?

 

[RationalLunacy]

Must...resist....creating....parody......


(Are message forums pâté?)

Resistance is futile.

 

[rareboy]

We are all soooooooooooooooooo 90's.

To be au courant you have to just twitter yourself.

It is all about the end of real exchange of ideas and opinions and just about yelling messages at one another.

Look at meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee.

 

[bankside]

Sure they're outdated.

Straight people had message boards first and we are just buying into the myths of heterosexuality by trying to imitate them with our own message boards.

Why do we have to call them "message boards" anyway? It just upsets traditional message boarders. Couldn't we call them "posting screens?"

Anyway, I don't even think gay people should want message boards. They should try casual posting, or anonymous posting and not get tied up in the idea that they have to "register" for a "traditional message board" just because straight people do it. What's wrong with a little message three-way without society judging people?

Anyway, I suppose even though message boards are not for me, I could support the rights of others to register for message boards if they want to. Or maybe I don't support anyone having a message board. I think everyone's opinions are equal, and since everyone around me doesn't have the same opinion, I don't know what to do! I swear some times the message board activists are as fundamentalist as the traditional message boarders.

Couldn't we all just agree to live in an oblivion of indecision????

 

[fabulouslyghetto]

They were using a yahoo group before and call a forum being passé? They got something wrong there .. I can't imagine anything more 90s than yahoo groups and geocities homepages

Seriously. I was browsing yahoo groups and geocites when I was, what, 16?