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There is a drop in monthly active Lemmy users (from 65k to 57k)
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this post was submitted on 22 Aug 2023
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How is Lemmy not a forum?
Lemmy is a link aggregator. Yes it can serve a lot of (if not all) the functions of a forum but it's not designed to be a drop-in replacement for something like Discuss or phpBB. It's different enough that I feel like calling it a forum is not the right term.
What exactly does it do worse than one of those?
Id say finding the latest comment is harder here. Sure, its not that hard when looking post replies. But comment replies? They can be nested, pretty much buried behind the "See more replies" button.
https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui/issues/2043
here's an issue tracker for that, I don't think it's really something that fundamentally makes it worse than a forum, honestly.
Oh i wouldnt say its worse at all. I prefer nested replies all the way. Regardless, i still wouldnt say lemmy fits the forum format, again due to the way you access the most recent replies.
In a forum thread, you go to the last page and youve found the latest comment. In a Lemmy post, even if the nested comments arent hidden, its not obvious at first glance which one is the latest comment.
Also, if you "bookmark" a forum thread, youll get notified of any new replies in said thread. On Lemmy, you can check the latest comments from an entire instance or community. But not for a specific post.
Again, id never phrase lemmys format as worse, for i greatly prefer it. But i wouldnt consider it a forum. It simply displays the information diferently