Internet Forum Evolution

[anonymous-user]

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[shirt]

doubt it, i can skim read but not skim view. plus it'd get silly having to look at you lot sat their in your cosplay outfits

[mechsympathy]

shirt said:

doubt it, i can skim read but not skim view. plus it'd get silly having to look at you lot sat their in your cosplay outfits

And subtle surfing at work would be a thing of the past.

[V8mate]

Nah.

Well.

Maybe.

In the short term.

In the longer term, I see a return to dialling up to bulletin boards with racks of their own modems again, to communciate direct and avoid the eyes of 'the man'.

[tegwin]

I cant honestly see forums switching away from text/threads..... Voice and video have their place, but unless peoples expectations radically change... the typed word is here to say...


The way you input and interface wiht the text thread will and should evolve...

Pretty much every forum I visit follows the same old styles and methods.... we need someone with more brain cells than me to write an all new shiny interactive front end using Java.....

[Urban_Ninja]

lol @ the cosplay.

aye I agree, that It will not be as easy to use the forum if you have to watch and listen to people ranting on about the missus catching then doing the 5 knuckle shuffle with the headphones on. in fact, that one I probably wouldnt want to open lol.

[ShadownINja]

shirt said:

doubt it, i can skim read but not skim view. plus it'd get silly having to look at you lot sat their in your cosplay outfits

I had to google that. What weird sites you enjoy.

[V8mate]

Urban_Ninja said:

lol @ the cosplay.

aye I agree, that It will not be as easy to use the forum if you have to watch and listen to people ranting on about the missus catching then doing the 5 knuckle shuffle with the headphones on. in fact, that one I probably wouldnt want to open lol.

Absolutely.
In fact, the OP assumes that people who are using PH are ONLY use PH and not....erm.... multi-tasking?

[ShadownINja]

Urban_Ninja said:

lol @ the cosplay.

aye I agree, that It will not be as easy to use the forum if you have to watch and listen to people ranting on about the missus catching then doing the 5 knuckle shuffle with the headphones on. in fact, that one I probably wouldnt want to open lol.

Opening such threads in the office would be... awkward.

[pits]

no you would have to listen to bullst instead of skipping past it