by Steve Gibson » Thu Sep 24, 2020 5:31 pm
I suspect the US forum suffers from the same malaise that this one suffers from. Facebook is pulling people away from club forums because it offers, by comparison, a 21st century interface where users can post text, image or video very easily. It's not a change I want to see, because I don't want Facebook to become the place where ALL enthusiasts of anything gather, but it's clearly FB policy. They have been going after clubs of every kind for a while.
Putting their expansionist policy aside, their platform is useless for searching and locating information. It's a 48-hour exchange space, like most social media.
If you could build a platform with the hierarchical organisation of a forum and the interface of Facebook, you'd be onto something.
I suspect the US forum suffers from the same malaise that this one suffers from. Facebook is pulling people away from club forums because it offers, by comparison, a 21st century interface where users can post text, image or video very easily. It's not a change I want to see, because I don't want Facebook to become the place where ALL enthusiasts of anything gather, but it's clearly FB policy. They have been going after clubs of every kind for a while.
Putting their expansionist policy aside, their platform is useless for searching and locating information. It's a 48-hour exchange space, like most social media.
If you could build a platform with the hierarchical organisation of a forum and the interface of Facebook, you'd be onto something.