A bit of an effortpost :)

Please do crosspost in more fitting communities if you think of any

  • db0OP
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    011 hours ago

    Doesn’t lemmy sort by active do exactly this?

    • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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      511 hours ago

      Not to the point old school forums do. The sorting is one of the main things in a old school forum as it will bump a post to the top with a single comment. Subforums are also something you don’t have on reddit/lemmy scrolling aggregators.

      • db0OP
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        111 hours ago

        What are you talking about? Each community is effectively a subforum. Why do you need nested forums?

        Also, being able to bump up threads was a curse as well. Anyway, of course lemmy is not identical to old-school bbcode forums, but I’d argue this is for the best. But I’m also hoping Discourse will make lemmy integration better, then it can be used by people who prefer that format.

        • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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          27 hours ago

          Look at xda and then reask that question. Subforums exist because some topics still fall under the same forum. Like android roms is a sub forum in xda, so its rooting phones. All the same umbrella but has different subforums.

          This seems to be an issue with those who never used forums or grew up with them. They just want rolling topics over and over.

          • db0OP
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            06 hours ago

            There’s no reason for subforums even in that case. You can easily have multiple communities the same way XDA has.

            • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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              11 hour ago

              Which is a nightmare for searching and knowing where to post. Forums are still one of the best mediums for topics with multiple Branches

              • db0OP
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                1 hour ago

                Not really. Just some links in the sidebar would serve the same purpose as the list of subforumsl

                • @SupraMario@lemmy.world
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                  15 minutes ago

                  Mobile wise it doesn’t. And as I’ve said already, forums are designed for prolonged discussion. These scroller style mediums are good for short timeframe discussions.