I ran a forum for a decade now and coming up to 50K relatively high quality posts - getting new users every day, and continuing to improve it with features and content. My users love it.
It's true that in the beginning a lot of people were complaining that the way to interact with the forum felt somewhat archaic - lots of that has been resolved with useability features as well - but now that the amount of content is so much larger, as a store of information to consult it beats everything else out there, like Discord, Facebook Groups, etc (which a lot of my users ALSO use). Today though, no one is complaining. Requesting some more features, sure, but no complaints.
I also read somewhere (sorry, tried to find the article but didn't find it) that there is a trend among younger users to move away from social media and gravitating towards more "static" forms of communication, like flat forums and wordpress sites.
Personally I'm a huge fan of phpBB, no doubt because I know it pretty well by now. I've had to learn hard and fast but it's so bloody solid.
It's true that in the beginning a lot of people were complaining that the way to interact with the forum felt somewhat archaic - lots of that has been resolved with useability features as well - but now that the amount of content is so much larger, as a store of information to consult it beats everything else out there, like Discord, Facebook Groups, etc (which a lot of my users ALSO use). Today though, no one is complaining. Requesting some more features, sure, but no complaints.
I also read somewhere (sorry, tried to find the article but didn't find it) that there is a trend among younger users to move away from social media and gravitating towards more "static" forms of communication, like flat forums and wordpress sites.
Personally I'm a huge fan of phpBB, no doubt because I know it pretty well by now. I've had to learn hard and fast but it's so bloody solid.
Statistics: Posted by nou nou — Tue Apr 16, 2024 4:21 pm