From the first moment I first went online in 1996, forums were the main place to hang out. In fact the very first thing I did was join an online forum run by the Greek magazine "PC Master" so I could directly to my favourite game reviewers (for me it was Tsourinakis, for those old [...]
  • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 month ago

    My migration was primarily driven by threading, voting, and ads.

    1. forums (community topics) >
    2. slashdot (community topics + threads) >
    3. digg / reddit (community topics + threads + voting) >
    4. Lemmy (community topics + threads + voting - ads)
    • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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      1 month ago

      slashdot (community topics + threads) >

      slashdot hads voting though. In fact I wish we had the same sort of votes slashdot had. up/down votes are so limited :(

        • db0@lemmy.dbzer0.comOPEnglish
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          1 month ago

          It had post voting, but no comment voting.

          Doesn’t your screenshot show the opposite?

          • Ghostalmedia@lemmy.worldEnglish
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            1 month ago

            Maybe I’m missing something, but I thought you could only upvote / downvote posts. Comments were just a thread, and whoever commented first was at the top.

            Hence why a lot of our early shitposting was just commenting “first” as soon as an interesting post when live.