The FFPB afforded me and many others a safe online space while we came of age. I visited every day for a decade and posted 12, times from an account that still somehow bore my MSN Messenger address in Many of the friendships forged there migrated elsewhere long before its demise -- to private IM chats, email, phone, the real world and, yes, social networks.
The rise of those platforms essentially spelled the end of the FFPB, though a moderator also mentioned that the board couldn't comply with GDPR regulations. That could be a difficult obstacle for many of the web's other long-standing communities to overcome. Of course, it's far from the only once-popular message board to perish. Sony, for example, is shutting down its official PlayStation Forums today, February 27th.
For many years, it's been a helpful resource for gamers from far and wide to troubleshoot issues with their console or PlayStation services, not to mention a place for players to discuss games with their peers. Sony hopes the conversation will move to Facebook, Twitter and comment sections of PlayStation Blog posts.
Perhaps the community will reassemble on another message board; it could be hard otherwise to keep the essence of what makes forum-based communities special. Facebook and Twitter aren't as effective for keeping up with multiple discussions over an extended time frame. Reddit is a relative of traditional forums, but you won't see threads that stay active for over a decade or any that have a pulse longer than a day or two on busier subreddits.
You can't exactly bump a thread to resuscitate it there either. One key thing Reddit does have in common with message boards is the importance of moderators. There were only a few of them steering the FFPB ship.
They were terrific and pretty lenient, as long as you weren't a total jerk. They were vital guiding lights for that postboard, and they made sure it felt like arriving home every time I logged in. That's not to say you can't find your community on social media, though. There are a number of reasons why people make the mistake of thinking that forums are dead.
With a staggering million users, Reddit boasts an incredible active usership, ranking as the 8th most popular website on the internet in Craigslist also enjoys similar success with 50 billion page views per month , whilst Quora sees million people using the site every month; and these statistics are just the tip of the iceberg.
From parenting forums, to fashion hubs, to bodybuilding sites, to business platforms there are a countless number of forums to be found on the internet, and many with thousands of active daily users. As the numbers go to show, though many may be shouting about the death of forums, in reality this is simply not true.
Millions of people utilise forums each and every day as a way to get answers, exchange advice, meet new people and simply have fun. While it may be true that platforms such as Facebook are driving away certain traffic levels from forums, this does not mean that the forums are dead or useless. Why do we think this? What is a forum? Sure you know this, but we never assume! Why do people use them? You chose any username you like and only share what you want to.
Similarity : successful forums work because they reflect the interests and needs of the people who use them. Mums want to talk to Mums. Petrol heads want to talk to other petrol heads. Amateur chefs want to talk to other amateur chefs. We feel a shared connection, a sense of trust and understanding. Specificity : forums let us share very specific parts of our lives or questions we have with others. It allows us to ask very specific questions to people who are likely to know what you mean and how to answer.
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