I really need to prioritize making that forum

a revival of forums is something I think we really need

@lizardsquid If there's one thing I don't like about here is the temporary nature of stuff here. For example I'd like for the thing I wrote yesterday to be kept somewhere despite it being mostly private. I don't think I've made particularly insightful comments here, but I don't like losing it.

I probably won't even read most of this stuff again, but I'd just like to be able to find it. This infinite-scroll stuff is the worst of both: permanent yet impossible to efficiently search through.

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@lizardsquid Otherwise, and I don't know if this is something that forums back then were much better at, social communities nowadays sometimes just drop dead arbitrarily. I don't really want to lose contact with people like that.

@BatElite yeah, the lack of practical permanence with our current social networks is a huge problem - this whole discussion started because xkeeper posted a link to their blog post yesterday, but I sure as heck can't find that toot!

@lizardsquid I've seen that (about https://xkeeper.dreamwidth.org/9872.html , right?)

Have you also seen the one about Jul? I don't know if it's what you're looking for in a forum, but I'm not sure how feasible it is to start a new one.