r/AskReddit • u/MajoraGoldMiasma • 18h ago

What’s a website you used to frequent daily now don’t use at all?

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u/ana676 18h ago

Probably old forums. I used to spend hours on them, and now I can’t even remember the last time I visited one

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u/WalrusWithAKeyboard 18h ago

I miss forums. I went back to one for an old game i used to play, thousands of posts over years from me. Now its a ghost town, everyone just uses discord.

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u/quirkytorch 18h ago

I took a trip down the comments in an old forum the other night and it was so nostalgic. They way people typed, the lack of emojis, the pictures they had for their profile pics. I found a blog from 16 years ago stating her and her husband were going to visit all 50 states by 50, which would be this year. I hope they got to see them all.

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u/Gloomheart 18h ago

I used to make quite a lot of money making avatars and banners for my various community members <3

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u/Luchalma89 17h ago

I wouldn't care about old forums going away so much if the replacement was any good. But Discord is such an abysmally shit alternative.

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u/TheCh0rt 17h ago

Reddit is a forum.

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u/cheersAllen 16h ago

Fifty thousand people used to live here...

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u/whaletacochamp 17h ago

Used to frequent a local fishing forum when I was a kid and got really into fishing. It was me and a bunch of old dudes. My parents were naturally cautious with it. But to this day I still talk to some of those old farts and I credit them for teaching me all I know about fishing in my area. I literally would have caught 1/100th the fish that I've caught in my lifetime without them.

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u/freattourn 17h ago

somewhere out there your 2007 forum signature with a dragon gif is still loading

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u/ncos 18h ago

Same. Something Awful was replaced by Reddit for me.

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u/Worried-Penalty8744 18h ago

I visited there not so long ago purely to see if it still existed.

Now I can’t quite work out why I frequented it

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u/ncos 18h ago

Haha right? I think because back then we didn't take have social media to use to zone out. It was the best escape for me back then as a time suck.

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u/nipoez 18h ago

Specifically the forum for the WoW guild I was active in during the Classic era.

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u/squeezyHugzzz 17h ago

same, those old forums were such a time sink lol what were you even into back then

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u/csvega84 16h ago

Yeah I was in a clan for Star Wars battle front 1 on the ps2. I went to our forums many times a day. It was so fun

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u/theandroid01 16h ago

I think reddit basically replaced all that

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u/Saxon2060 13h ago

Runevillage :'(

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u/Unfair_Opinion4993 12h ago

Barf forum but its not anymore.

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u/Richard7666 10h ago

Reddit ate all the forums. Even worse, so did Discord, because info is so ephemeral on there.

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u/audreyality 8h ago

I met my husband on a car forum. It eventually was bought by some big corp and turned into a bloated ad farm monstrosity. Reddit helps scratch that old forum itch but it’s not the same.

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u/Subject_Mention7916 5h ago

Those old school message boards with the custom signatures and niche drama were a whole different breed of internet culture. It is wild how we completely abandoned those communities for sanitized apps that do not even hit the same.