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What replaced Internet Forums? ›

It seems that in the past couple of years, traditional forums have been largely replaced by specialized community-building tools, like Discord and Slack, or by social media groups, like the ones on Facebook.

There are internet forums for almost anything you can imagine, like sports, hobbies, and even politics. In this blog post, we're going to look at some of the main benefits of online forums – from early incarnations including BBS and Usenet, online forums have come a long way. Even now, they are still hugely popular.

In 2019, Publishers Clearing House acquired Topix and its website was redirected to pch.com.

Reddit is the world's largest online community platform – and a new community can be started by anyone, anytime. Create your own subreddit to attract more members to your community faster – but beware of getting lost in the crowd. You can let your Reddit community create posts, vote on them and even elect moderators.

One of the first forum sites (which is still active today) is Delphi Forums, once called Delphi. The service, with four million members, dates to 1983. Forums perform a function similar to that of dial-up bulletin board systems and Usenet networks that were first created in the late 1970s.

Chat rooms are typically hosted on a server with an internet connection, enabling members from around the world to hold conversations about various topics. By comparison, forums and discussion groups let users post messages but don't have the capacity for interactive, real-time messaging.

On 18 September 2023, Wayne Luke confirmed that the previously-community run modifications website, vBulletin.org, would be sunset and shut down on 24 August 2024; modification creators were advised to post their content on the main vbulletin.com website via the Social Groups feature, or to host them via other means.

Support for Internet Explorer ended on June 15, 2022

The same Internet Explorer 11 apps and sites you use today can open in Microsoft Edge with Internet Explorer mode. Microsoft Edge is the faster, more secure browser recommended by Microsoft.

Lots of people still use forums. Many website developers still offer forum services, and hundreds of new forums are developed every week. Forums are one of the only places on the internet to have long discussions on certain topics.

Yes, some of the oldest and worst-maintained ones have died, but many others are still as active as they ever were. There's also a thing where communities tend to only really migrate to other forum-types that work similarly.

Why do people use Discord instead of forums? ›

But over time, forums have waned in popularity with the advent of modern real-time chat platforms like Slack and Discord, which allow for instant communication. The number of active forums has drastically declined over the past decade.