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Sure, bad mods are a problem sometimes. But you also run into a lot of extremely knowledgeable users in your particular area of interest and can actually have great back and forth discussion.

Be it cars, bikes, coffee, firearms, you name it.

For hobbies I've found Tiktok is riddled with low quality content.

I suppose it really depends what you're looking for.

>>alfalf+(OP)
Oh, no arguments there. When it's good, it's great. It's just frustrating to be used to that level of quality and end up with a bunch of garbage content you have to wade through to get to the good stuff.

>>dablue+y1
The other side of the argument is that, when Reddit is actually doing a good job for these niche communities, is it different to the old forum culture or a discord server?

>>witche+c3
Culturally, I'd argue no. In terms of UX and permanence, I'd argue yes. Reddit is a lot easier for someone to search after the fact and find good info, and it's a lot easier to follow individual comments on a big Reddit thread than it is to try to follow the chain-of-quotes on an old-style forum.

Discord is good but it's a chat app first and foremost and it's a pain to search for esoteric information, especially since you have to be in the server in question to even search.

>>dablue+C5
I wonder if the solution is to develop a forum with better UX? And also with a better way to find said communities through search engines (Quora for example does a good job of getting on Google)?

Though I would also argue that one of the biggest negatives about Reddit is that you can't come back to a thread later that day or another day, if you want to get your reply head then you need to respond immediately and attain a lot of upvotes. With a forum you could respond whenever you wanted and get a discussion going. And similarly forums would allow you to avoid the echochamber effect by avoiding upvotes/downvotes as everything was chronologically ordered, so it was a much more civil affair.

But I agree that the chain-of-quotes is a positive about Reddit, which I think might be possible to implement/merge into a new forum design.