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Originally Posted by Seducio [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Web forums are like stick shift gas vehicles when everyone on the block has an automatic transmission and the rich kids in the next town over all have EVs already. Basically an old technology that is no longer popular, because newer and better exists.

Secrets has claimed he's not a fan of web forums and only plans to manage website/discord. No PQ forums in the works. In theory someone could start their own PQ forum or wiki type sites. For instance there is subreddit that is not controlled by Secrets. Only website/discord and actual server are managed by PQ team.

Sounds like our only option is to post about it here then.

Discord is death.

“[..]Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species."
Yes? Why is that?"
Because it means the end of innovation," Malcolm said. "This idea that the whole world is wired together is mass death. Every biologist knows that small groups in isolation evolve fastest. You put a thousand birds on an ocean island and they'll evolve very fast. You put ten thousand on a big continent, and their evolution slows down. Now, for our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behaviour. We innovate new behaviour to adapt. And everybody on earth knows that innovation only occurs in small groups. Put three people on a committee and they may get something done. Ten people, and it gets harder. Thirty people, and nothing happens. Thirty million, it becomes impossible. That's the effect of mass media - it keeps anything from happening. Mass media swamps diversity. It makes every place the same. Bangkok or Tokyo or London: there's a McDonald's on one corner, a Benetton on another, a Gap across the street. Regional differences vanish. All differences vanish. In a mass-media world, there's less of everything except the top ten books, records, movies, ideas. People worry about losing species diversity in the rain forest. But what about intellectual diversity - our most necessary resource? That's disappearing faster than trees. But we haven't figured that out, so now we're planning to put five billion people together in cyberspace. And it'll freeze the entire species. Everything will stop dead in its tracks. Everyone will think the same thing at the same time. Global uniformity. [..]”

― Michael Crichton, ― Dr Ian Malcolm