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General interest mega-boards and forum sustainability (community.nodebb.org)

submitted 4 weeks ago by julian@community.nodebb.org to c/general-discussion@community.nodebb.org

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I'm away from my desk for the next few days and so I'll likely be posting more open ended discussion questions.

Recently I've been thinking more about the decline of forums of yesteryear and how hosting a forum has always been rather niche.

That got me thinking about how one of Reddit's "killer features" was that just anybody could create a subreddit. The same could be said about Facebook groups as well.

You don't get that with forums, only the admin can create categories/forums, and by extension that usually limited the rise of general interest boards, and more towards niche topic-focused boards. It also meant that basically every board had a "general discussion" board or "random" board.

Would there be interest in NodeBB supporting something like this... Basically, the ability for anyone to set up a category and instantly moderate it, and build your own sub community inside a community? Does this ruin the magic of forums?

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[–] kirillevo@community.nodebb.org 1 points 3 weeks ago

I think it's a good idea.

The magic of forums is here to stay, and it will only get stronger with time and new features.