So this brand new MSC FB knock off is what you guys think would attract more users ?
The "old" Forum that had more than 200.000 members and only one or two posts a day. That's suspiciously low participation and I donÄt think it's due to young people not knowing how to use a forum.
I can tell you why I prefer a "classic" Forum over let's say FB:
1)
Did you ever try to dig out an old thread on FB that you remember it was there ? Impossible thing! The philosophy here is fire and forget. If I stumble over valuable content here, I immediately save it on my HDD.
If you participate in a forum for long, you remember threads and you can pretty easily dig out what it was if you remember things like keywords or who wrote it.
If this system is capable of doing this - fine. If not - fail.
2)
Being flooded with info: If you have FB on your mobile phone and more than a dozen "friends" you get pretty many pop-ups saying xxx has liked something, yyy has started a new topic and all this fuss.
You don't have that on a forum. I'm having a look there if I have the time and not because somebody I don't even know tagged me in a post.
3)
Smooth transition:
Ever thought about the "old" forum threads as a valuable source of solutions/information? So which genius had the idea "hey let's just piss off everyone with an unannounced radical change within one day"
4)
Attachments:
Ok this can only become better, as on forums you're always limited with file types and sizes or visibility only for logged in members and all this unnecessary stuff.
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