Quote:if there is a specialized client for email threads i could be eating shit though. Multiple clients display chains in a forum-like manner, though I do not know if they exist in English.

(Jul 9, 2021 at 9:53 PM)Draku Wrote: no necroposting, this thread will be locked : )I am referring to the limit on posts in a thread that is a defining trait of image boards, forums do not have this...

I disagree in this context. We are discussing things unique to forums intrinsically and that is not something that they have or are limited to.

Quote:Theoreticals are meaningless in this discussion. Why is this? In discussing the worth and place something has you must take possibilities in mind.

Quote: an email chain is different since there's only one "topic." This is incorrect, that is simply how most email chains are set up.

Quote:the closest real life practice to this i've seen is like, 4chan, and even that has visible moderator interaction. No real world examples does not imply it cannot happen. I can easily imagine a l...

Quote:moderated by real humans in a manageable manner. no Invisible Corporate Overlords That isn't a given with forums. An entity could monetize and privately moderate a forum in the same way a servi...

That is an intrinsic property of smaller social media, a larger forum would suffer the same fate as bigger blogs do today such as Tumblr and Twitter.

Is there anything they can do that other more popular forms of social media cannot?

I do not care about forums in the slightest. Are we in 2005? What the fuck people.

Now where's my fancy name color.