The reason is because social media has monopolized the internet because it's profitable for them to sell targeted ads.thesaunderschild wrote: ↑Fri Feb 11, 2022 12:25 am I noticed that message boards all across the Internet are practically dead now. The only really active ones are GameFAQs, but I closed two accounts on there, due to lippy users.
There's really nowhere else any more, to talk about gaming. At least not by doing it on forums that are regularly visited by others. There's also hardly any fan sites left. In fact, I think they're mostly gone now too. Geocities and Webs had some good wee sites a long time ago. But that must have been in 2006.
I just don't like Facebook, Discord, and Twitter. They're forcing you to add your mobile number on these sites too, as you cannot hardly do anything if you are not verified. But I don't like to do that.
Besides that, they keep altering things and ruining some of the good features. I honestly preferred Facebook about 3 years ago. It just doesn't look right nowadays.
What I like about forums is
-no popup notifications with sound all day and night
-talk about ONE THING more or less per forum (which means Silent hill here, without it being watered down with people's baby photos, pet photos, lunch photos, advertisements, more advertisements, etc., making it a calm and subject-specific place
-you can actually read the replies to a thread, in order, without any being hidden
-things indexed chronologically
-your mom, grandma, and sixth grade science teacher* probably aren't here
-not an endless feed. this is a good thing, because it doesn't eat up unlimited time.
but again, google and amazon and facebook own most of the internet now so it's all sanitized and homogenous.
*no offense to Mr. Smith if he is indeed here