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Originally Posted by HRBaker
I wouldn't be so hasty on labeling the forums as "antique".
As someone here has said, Discord and Twitch move at a much faster pace - designed to cover a lot of smaller information in a very short time. The exact opposite of focused and studied discussion on a particular subject as happens in the forums.
Two platforms for two different type discussions.
Personally, I'm not complaining about Discord or Twitch - they're simply not the fast paced chatter I wish to take part in. I'm more of a slow "forums type guy" where I can bounce ideas back and forth with people and the developers (if they choose to take part).
My complaint is that the powers-to-be have abandoned the attention they use to provide to these forums. I can't count the number of times questions have been asked here only to find out they were answered on Discord or Twitch. Is it that hard to assign someone to insure answers are posted on both platforms?
Traffic here is far less than it was in the past. Many have already moved to the other platforms and many others have simply quit visiting as often. If the forums disappear, there simply won't be a place to voice game concerns in detail. Solutions will become the property of the game developers with less input from the customer base.
I hope it doesn't go there.
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Slack does a much better job at giving you the faster pace of discord but also allowing for in-depth discussions via threads (discord sorta added this but it's clunky and much harder to use in an effective manner.). Unfortunately Slack priced itself out of the space that discord now dominates and I don't see them recovering any ground there.
I don't see the forums going anywhere as long as companies have a website. If you already have the hardware running the site there's no reason to get rid of the forum. Nor should they go anywhere, I am a fan of forums and the type of communication they allow.
The devs/community team here would definitely benefit from a forum facelift and some better media platform integration. It would be insanely easy to automate announcement/news sharing across multiple platforms (official twitter, discord, and here). Slightly more work but they could then integrate it into the game proper (showing the twitter feed with the news on the manager home screen?). Also making forums more approachable by doing things like condensing the number of sub forums wouldn't hurt (OOTP23 has 11 not counting the mod sub forums, it could easily be condensed down to 4.. OOTP General Discussion/PT Discussion/Tech Support/Mods)