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Short and sweetThat explains why your discussion points are so short.
Short and sweetThat explains why your discussion points are so short.
I’ve seen people write 1000+ word posts on their phone, but you're never going to convince me it’s ever able to be a good experience writing a lot on mobile. You *can* but mostly won’t want to.
This is the mindset of old school forum people and is why forums have declined. Future is phones and it needs to be mobile friendly. Thankfully XF is very mobile friendly.Mobile meant for talking. Computers for everything else!
Sadly last time I went into a big box store the computer section shrunk replaced by.....ewww mobile crap.
Most youngins never use their phone for taking.Mobile meant for talking.
This is the mindset of old school forum people and is why forums have declined. Future is phones and it needs to be mobile friendly. Thankfully XF is very mobile friendly.
EDIT: phone autocorrected mobile to minor ?
Myself included. But the trend online is pretty apparent. But yes. Another topic.Some of us grew up without those phones and got along fine. But that's for another topic, since the thread was about TMZ getting the VSvid.
Most youngins never use their phone for taking.
But you literally prove my point.
It is tedious to write and to read long stuff on a phone. So either we adapt or we die, easy as that.
EDIT: phone autocorrected mobile to minor ?
In a perfect world, yes. If you have the luxury to be knightly, go ahead. But from a business point of view, it means your death.Or, which would be my preferred solution to the problem, become the only kind of community that still targets people who don't think emojis are a full sentence. If the touchscreen typists don't want to be catered by forums, forums shouldn't degrade themselves to still cater them. Good riddance, touchscreeners!
But from a business point of view, it means your death.
If 99% of your competition does it, and it works, and you think you don't need it, well, good bye.
I oversee ~130 Communities in the automotive space and I can say that forums are not dead, we are growing. virtually across the network, large and small communities are growing and activity is outpacing previous years. What is needed is radical transformation of most leadership teams to ensure they reflect the current customer demographic. This can be very difficult and painful to achieve.
I don't know if we are all singing from exactly the same hymn sheet but it does seem to me there is some recognition that we need to move forward and adapt better to the online world as it is now.So either we adapt or we die, easy as that.
It is not the most interesting, I agree, but as I said, we don't live in a perfect world. You can't just skip the basics in highschool, and expect to become a math prof later. You have to do the core part, which is not the most interesting, in order to get to the interesting part.The business point of view is not the most interesting point of view when it comes to online discussions. If it was, TAZ should be a Facebook page and that's it then.
Who says one is just like every other product? All great minds of earth, who ever lived, they shared many things, like hands, fingers, legs, brains, etc.I don't think that being just like every other product is a unique selling point.
I've said it before, I say it again. All what we can do is to write these longs posts. We are no developers or big companies. We are forced to follow the route of what the forum software companies allow us to go. They have to make the difference here. For example, some users in my forum asked me to create a dedicated app for my forum. And they listed all these fancy stuff they would like to see. Well, I don't have tens of thousands of dollars of budget to create myself a dedicated app. I can only offer what XF makes possible to offer.I don't know if we are all singing from exactly the same hymn sheet but it does seem to me there is some recognition that we need to move forward and adapt better to the online world as it is now.
So, my point is, there are always core things in everything we all should make use of, because they work.
The same kind I’ve been evangelising for years: features that augment the forum more specifically for its niche that social media can’t compete with.Which kind of adaption do you suggest which would not turn forums into a chatbox?