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Internet forums are disappearing because now it's all Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. (www.xataka.com)
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[–] [email protected] 23 points 5 months ago

Yes, the uprise of social media was a big hit in traffic.

But I disagree with the smartphone part, quite the opposite. Suddenly the forum was flooded with questions about HTML/CSS/JS issues with smartphones. I suspect that smartphones delayed the drop in postings.