#like birb and i have 4 years of chatter in discord at this point | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

xannerz · 1 month ago

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i miss classic web forums. down with discord.

ill kinda bitch about it more later but been lamenting the loss of being able to easily revisit older discussions like you could back in the day, or just stumble across some older conversations and get inspired. even if there are some forums still out there, it's not the same ykwim. the traffic isnt there. discord feels very transient, too loud. the chat format has its pros/cons like anything.

but lord help you if you have a job/other responsibilities. topics would have come and gone by the time you had a chance to settle back in and catch up. people will post commentary on art/fics that the creators will likely never see. not a new novel observation by any means but i've been stewing on it. like you have this live access to chatting with others but the archival appeal/functionality that a classic forum provides is lost.

#tumblr's carved out a unique space but also not the same.#also bizarre to me how many fandom people refuse to engage with it but have twt and ig etc etc idk. idk. it's strange.#this stems from a few things #like birb and i have 4 years of chatter in discord at this point #and we both regret not copy/pasting all our little AU notes and RP-adjacent threads and meta somewhere else for safe keeping #so many threads we could have easily re-tuned and refined into fic #(we kept SDKfjsLD floating the idea too!! 'should we put these drabbes/thoughts in another doc' 'hahaha maybe')#we'll keep. trying. but it feels impossible LMFAO.#ik disc has a threads feature now but its so ugly and clunky #also hate wanting to scope out a discord but there's no preview option #and theres a channel that loudly announces every person that joins like doNT LOOK AT ME.#fandom #xantalks

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