28-07-2022, 08:04 AM
(28-07-2022, 12:15 AM)maplaptop Wrote: Do feel like the age of the Message Boards has died, Even Digital Spy is struggling to keep there userbase from posting political stuff 24/7. I can see them closing down there message boards soon actually.I think that is true, as I've said many times about sites like TV Ark etc, they've been overtaken by social media and other platforms.
Why build and configure and host a web forum when you can use Reddit or Discord etc? Why host a website of video of old TV when YouTube etc will host it and give you a wider audience?
It's nothing really to do with what people's views are, it's about the ending of web 1.0
There's also a quality gap, to get a own hosted site looking and working as well as the big boys takes some talent and time. Rob and Asa had both and made quality products (although to be honest I never got on with the most recent incarnation of TVLF). Anything less than that and people aren't interested, they're used to the slickness of Facebook, Twitter etc