many people who have joined have related their extended stints on communities Reddit, Dig, Slashdot, or even older places like Usenet, and i’m super interested in what your best memories and favorite experiences on places like that have been in your time using them
I used to be extremely extremely active on an old message board for a gaming website, I was young so I constantly got into shit, but I don’t think I’ll ever be so invested in a forum that I could post over 200 posts per day. It was great, you’d have incredibly long threads with tons of posts from the same set of people.
Something that I remember doing was basically proving that one forum user absolutely could not have gone from cart pusher less than a year prior to owning a house with no transition in between through nothing but me remembering like everything everyone posted on there
This resonates with me. Whenever I’m posting I ask myself, “is this contributing to the discussion?” If the answer is no, I won’t post anything. The old forums that had a comment count under a username made me want to increase that so I posted on every post. I feel this lead to a lot of unnecessary and dull engagement.
Haha probably right? But it definitely also lent it a very conversational atmosphere, occasionally just small posts that didn’t get much attention or getting really, really engaged with a discussion. Also it was the last time I knew basically everyone I was posting with at least a little bit.