Current Events > This reminds me of when Eurogamer shut down their forums 3 years ago

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https://www.eurogamer.net/sunsetting-the-eurogamer-forum

Hi gang,
I am sorry to say that we are going to turn off access to the forum on 10th September 2021.
The forum has been a long-standing part of Eurogamer, and at its peak welcomed thousands of active contributors each day.

Sadly, times change and the way people communicate also has changed.
Traditional forums are no longer a popular place for people to come together to talk, and have been replaced in popularity with more modern community platforms like Discord, Twitter, and Twitch.
Due to this, our forum community has declined over the years to the point where there are only a handful of people left actively using the forum.

Are you guys familiar with Eurogamer?

I know the name and I am a gamer but I am not in Europe.

It seems like tech companies have been trying to kill forums and message boards for like a decade now.
I fucking hate it. I can't stand the Discord, twitter, etc... forms of social media and communication. It's just a chaotic fucking mess.
But one by one, message boards keep getting shuttered.

Related and almost as bad was all the websites closing the in-house comments sections on their articles and instead having no discussion at all or outsourcing it to Discus or something.

streamofthesky posted...

It seems like tech companies have been trying to kill forums and message boards for like a decade now.
I fucking hate it. I can't stand the Discord, twitter, etc... forms of social media and communication. It's just a chaotic fucking mess.
But one by one, message boards keep getting shuttered.

Related and almost as bad was all the websites closing the in-house comments sections on their articles and instead having no discussion at all or outsourcing it to Discus or something.

The problem is that Twitter and Reddit are just about attention in form of retweets or upvotes to be visible, and a chat like Discord is just about activity.

I virtually can't participate in a Reddit discussion, because no matter what I write, by default it will be ranked below the funny pun with 127 upvotes.

I mean, 20 years ago every community had some phpBB2 board. But they all became some Sub-Reddit, because it's cheaper.

Karovorak posted...

I virtually can't participate in a Reddit discussion, because no matter what I write, by default it will be ranked below the funny pun with 127 upvotes.

This is the issue with Reddit.