Regaining Focus

I've noticed that a lot of guests are watching the forums, but aren't doing anything. Not really sure what the point of lurking this forum is unless you're just looking at the found threads..

Forums have no need to 'adapt' to these people, and there is no potential way unless you want to modify the actual way forums work entirely. 

We have the chatango, anyways, which provides instant communication, if limited. 

Forums cannot adapt to these changed lest they cease being forums at all. The forum format is the antithesis to something like discord. 

This forum has less activity because it is increasingly fractured between platforms because nobody can seem to decide where the hub for lost media actually should be. There are forums that are still alive and active, this forum is just more obscure than a lot of others.

For instance, "chan" boards are still pretty active, and Reddit itself is almost just a slightly upgraded forum in it's layout, at least until their "Facebook-style" update ruins that. 

What we really need to do is focus on making this where lost media is discussed more often than other platforms, rather than segmenting us between multiple social medias, not just here and Discord. 

The chans and Reddit operate in much the same way, using """outdated""" forum styles. Reddit's administration even wants to move to a redesign that is more "in date" and the community wants nothing to do with it. 4chan has only vaguely updated since 2chan's format in 2001, but has maintained essentially the same amount of popularity, even getting more popular in recent years, despite being quite possibly even clunkier than even regular forum formats. By all means, 4chan's format is almost as traditional as phpbb, even coming into existence around the same time. 

In a way, modern social media itself is outdated, most platforms having no clue on how to operate while actually making a profit, and Facebook, so far one of the only longstanding actually profitable web2.0 services, has run into a lot of trouble with big gov due to privacy concerns and is bleeding users, at the same time unable to connect with Gen Zed. Google+, despite by all means being "new", never found great success and I am unsure if it's ever been profitable for Google, just like Youtube has never been. Twitter has been a tough sell, and is just now on the decline. These are all services newer than Forums, and yet they themselves aren't really "in-date" in any usable way, especially for the companies that made them. Discord isn't something I'd really call much of a social media, it's more of a group chat than anything, but yes, it is gaining popularity. I don't think this spells death for Forums. *We* just don't know how to handle it, but honestly, this forum has never been terribly popular in the first place, and the activity it has had mostly focused on the threads that corresponded with then-popular searches like cracks and clockman. 

Unless you're talking about moderation, 4chan's overall layout has evolved almost zero from what it originally was. Moderation has actually been on the decline, and at one point they began censoring entire terms off the site, which many people of course did not like, and yet it is still popular today. 

Reddit, again, has been, especially in the past few years, absolutely terrible at adapting to what the userbase wants, and it especially shows with the "redesign". 

"Things change" is a vague statement that needs to be applied to make sense. Yes, forums die, but it seems to me to be more of the fault of the topic of the forum going into obscurity. 

I wasn't trying to be rude, just explain my side. I should have probably called it off a while ago. Don't think this conversation reflects the entire site, man. This is as heated as I've seen anything get on here, and this is nothing in comparison to what I've seen off forum.