i started using the internet in the late 2000’s and still remember when you search for something most of the times it would return with a forum post … now its just random websites … if you ever need real and concise answer you have to add site.reddit.com at every search and since discord or twitter nor crawlable by these search crawlers they are not mentioned . Where did all those forums went…are there still active forums ?

  • skulblaka@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    Make it a FOSS project then. No profit motive, no problem, right?

    Granted, I understand that’s hinging on someone actually wanting to work on this project for free. But I feel like FOSS decentralized forum software is something we might be able to get the grognards on board with.

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      1 year ago

      Are there other good examples of successful open source mobile apps? Where the app client itself is open source?