Forum Sites Are Dying

This one should last at least a few more years, I like it here, there's some nice people to talk to.:D
 
A long, long time ago...in the year 2002...I was a member of a great FF forum called, "All World Final Fantasy."

I had some good times there...they had already been a forum for a long time when I joined, and I was am active member for a few years. Alas, one day, they finally closed...Even though they were only going to "redo" the site, after it was done and everyone came back, well...it just wasn't the same for me. I honestly think that they should have just closed for good...the site was declining in active members, and just about everything there is to discuss had already been discussed...

And someday, I think, this forum, and every other forum will eventually die, and new forums will take their place. Forums are a never-ending cycle, at least, I think so. As long as there are new people getting to know the online world, and there are people already in it, there will always be forums and discussion boards.
So even if this site were to die, there are hundreds of others to go to.

But...I hope this site doesn't go, not for a while, anyway. :D I still need a chance to get to know it a little better.
 
Doctor Faust
A long, long time ago...in the year 2002...I was a member of a great FF forum called, "All World Final Fantasy."
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I was a member of FFwa.org (Final Fantasy Worlds Apart) for quite some time which was a sister site of waFF.com.

I think the "baine of all forums" is that they get to many people and it becomes impossible to keep tract of what has been said and everything just becomes a repeat. This is starting to happen here, but more because no one searches the forum to see if their thread idea has already been made. I am always reading the threads on the last pages of a sub-forum. ;dep ;dep ;dep ;dep

The "cure" for this is exactly what the mods have been doing. When I signed up there were 10 smilies, the RPG Hack as a bunch of flaws, and almost no forum games. Now there is a bunch of fun stuff to do here besides post.
So long as Square keeps coming out with new games and memebers don't get repetative FFnet will continue to be a great place to waste your life. ;wel ;wel ;wel
 
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Yeah tiny bronco is right there are too many repeat threads. I always check all the threads before inventing one.

As for forum sites dying I think it depends on its users and how good the overall site is.
 
The funny thing is though, lets say a topic called, "Who's your favourite main Final Fantasy character?" - and it's at the 5th page. If you reply to that and lets say the last post date is June 23rd, 2006 - and the current date is February 4th, 2007, if you reply to that topic - you will get smashed to no means. Even if it's only a month or two, you'll get bashed too.
 
dappa said:
Yeah tiny bronco is right there are too many repeat threads. I always check all the threads before inventing one.

As for forum sites dying I think it depends on its users and how good the overall site is.
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Hm...I have an awful tendency to make up the excuse, "sorry if this has been done before."

Everyone who does this when making a new topic, (including mich (me), ) should listen to you, dappa. :D

And also, yes, old topic revival, or "Necromancy," is a common problem among forums. However, I don't see a problem with it if the topic's two or three weeks old at the most, just not two or the months. But I abide by the rules (as everyone should,) and so even if one couldn't reply to a one-week old topic, I would obey that rule.

Which, brings up another thing..."rules." SO many people just do NOT read the rules, and this often causes a forum to become chaotic with spammers of all sorts...And even just people who have no idea what they're doing, and whatever they say only seems like spam. Whoever joins a forum needs to always read, or even ask about, the rules. But the world isn't perfect--I think that this will always be a problem that no forum can truly avoid.
 
There is always new things to discuss in the world so I don't think forum making will ever cease. I also agree with Catalyst about the whole "you get smashed for replying in a 1-2 month old thread thing."
Hydra said:
Pluto isn't a planet anymore? Wow. XD I didn't know that. o.O
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You didn't? Lol, Pluto is about as much of a planet as Sedna is, in other word's; it's hardly even a planet. =P
 
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Yggdrasill
There is always new things to discuss in the world so I don't think forum making will ever cease. I also agree with Catalyst about the whole "you get smashed for replying in a 1-2 month old thread thing."
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What is this "you'll get smashed"?
Do you mean that people will yell at you for spamming if you revive an old thread?
If so then no they won't. Its only if you revive a thread that has no point. ex: Posting in a thread were the topic was asking for help and the help was already given. Fell free to post in any thread old or new so long as you have something worth saying.
 
It's really sad though. In some forums the thread could be 3 pages back (I'll use Gaia Online for an example) and even if that forum is super active and you find that thread on the first page, people (Well if the forum is too busy so to speak) will probably rant at you for it. Even the mods to sometimes as well.
 
Catalyst said:
I've noticed that many of the popular forums are dying off or becoming inactive. A few of the forums I used to go to were quite active until some started college etc, or just started getting bored.

Some have mentioned that over the years it's become a 'fad' or a 'trend'. Then something else pops up and you go to that, and sometimes they come back and post about it for a while and disappear again.

I'm not trying to put down ffnet.net, or any other site in general - it's just there's so many that cover the same topics. There's probably hundreds of game-related forums, or even specific-game forums out there. i believe that if it covers an unusual or rare topic it'd be a bit more popular, such as a game developer site, or that has material of it's own, such as newsletters and so on. Such as Gamespot, IGN, EGM and so on.

In today's 'forum world', it's beginning to really die down, what do you guys think?
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O_O I have noticed this too. Being and owner of my own forums, I would know. I fear the time of the forum is comming to pass. But I will remain loyal to them. *Because I have no life other than going out with friends and cosplaying or drawing, singing and so on*
 
Tifa-chan said:
But I will remain loyal to them. *Because I have no life other than going out with friends and cosplaying or drawing, singing and so on*
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Then there's another problem - getting slammed with having "no life".

So I sit in front of my laptop from when I get home from school to when I go to bed. I either play Counterstrike or WoW, or go on forums.
 
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