What features or addons that forums used a lot are no longer around?
Forum features you miss?
- Thread starter Demon_Skeith
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Older topic but thought we could revise it. One thing I liked & miss is Webrings. My forum from years ago utilized Webrings. They are liken to Affiliate Exchanges. It was a collection of websites linked by a specific theme. So if you went to a forum for i.e. gaming, you could go to the Webring & find other gaming forums.
I.... don't think I've heard of Webring? Guessing thats why they went under.
Post Goal I don't see that anymore
I miss Desktop-only forum themes/templates which were mainly designed for browsing forums on a desktop PC.
Now you got me thinking of WHY they stopped. So I went to the Wiki page. Never know how accurate some can be but sounds legit:
"When the primary site that managed web rings, webring.org was acquired by Yahoo, "ring masters" lost access to their webrings and the web ring hubs were replaced by a Yahoo page. By the time Yahoo stopped controlling webring.org in 2001, search engines had become good enough that web rings were no longer as useful."
To me, I believe it had a lot to do with search engines being better.
Ah before mine time and taken into Yahoo, it simply vanished into the ether.
I strangely miss BBCode being the only way to format things. It was terrible, but oddly satisfying when a large post came together. Plus being an admin and trying to turn html into BBCode was always an adventure.
Bringing back some bad memories lol.