https://tedium.co/2026/07/01/online-web-forums-retrospective/
"Today in
Tedium: Recently, I passed 20,000 followers on Bluesky, which I
didn’t really say anything about. Sure, I thought about it, but then I had
decided to myself, what’s the point? Soon, there will be another mark I can
point to and feel weird about. The thing about social media these days is that
the good stuff all too often pulls you in, but at the end of the day, you end
up feeling hollow. Perhaps it’s for this reason that, when I spotted a thread
asking about what my favorite social network of all time was, my answer wasn’t
Twitter or Bluesky or even Tumblr. It was, of all things, a forum for news
designers that existed in the mid-2000s called Visual Editors. It barely
worked, honestly: It had a chat option that was popular with designers waiting
for their pages to get proofed late in the evening, but it would often go down
with no warning. But from a community standpoint, it was spectacular. Why don’t
many modern social networks feel like that? Today’s
Tedium ponders the fate
of the web forum. — Ernie @
Tedium"
Via Esther Schindler.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
