Hey! As I said in my member announcements post, I wasn't involved in the original mgsforums, so you guys would probably know better than I would, but I think it would be a good idea to make a post on the mgs reddit letting people know about this site. After looking through posts on the subreddit, it looks like quite a few of the old members of the forum are now on the subreddit, and as far as I know the subreddit is the largest current metal gear community online. If you guys are trying to get some of the original members of the forum onto this site, your best bet would probably be making a post there. I don't have a reddit account, but, if any of you guys do, I really do think it could help get that community back together.
Appreciate the suggestion! Always good to have people thinking about how to get activity up.
I’ve actually spoken to the mods there and have got permission to post a Delta giveaway. I was waiting for the site to be at a state where old members will believe it’s here to stay (as at this point there’s been 3 other successors that didn’t stick around for various reasons) and I don’t want to spam the subreddit with stuff about the forums-I respectfully their community even if I’m not a Reddit fan!
I’ll be posting up about the giveaway soon given Delta is just over a month away.
We need to find more people like St3ve..who long for the old internet. Reddit and Tapatalk are such horrible stripped down versions of what use to be amazing communal hubs.
I believe Reddit is anti-communal in the way it's set out. Someone can make a post on a thread but instead of sparking open, active discussion, instead it brings about mini conversations with no way to interweve other thoughts and opinions from other posters in other branches of the comment. It is the antithesis of a forum. I've seen some insightful/funny posts like 14 comments deep that no one gets to see because who the fuck goes down there? Check the upvotes and move on.
(11-07-2025, 10:55 PM)Null Wrote: [ -> ]We need to find more people like St3ve..who long for the old internet. Reddit and Tapatalk are such horrible stripped down versions of what use to be amazing communal hubs.
I believe that the internet is going to see a lot more people like me as time goes on. I've noticed over the past year people have started to become dissatisfied with the modern internet. The internet has become centralised around a select few massive platforms, and those sites have progressively more soulless and corporatised. The rise of AI has led to those sites being bogged down with slop, and it is becoming more and more difficult to sift through the mountains of shit and find actually good content. Dead internet theory has risen from a 4chan conspiracy theory to a pretty accurate description of the state of social media. It hasn't come to this point yet, but I believe that we're gonna see an exodus of users who can no longer tolerate the platforms at some point. I doubt it will be a majority of users, but I certainly believe it will be a decent chunk of them. I believe that forums will see a resurgence in the next few years due to this, along with alternative social media and video platforms. Granted, I'm no expert on this topic, so I could be completely wrong, but there has distinct change in the attitudes of people towards modern social media recently
(12-07-2025, 10:17 PM)st3ve Wrote: [ -> ] (11-07-2025, 10:55 PM)Null Wrote: [ -> ]We need to find more people like St3ve..who long for the old internet. Reddit and Tapatalk are such horrible stripped down versions of what use to be amazing communal hubs.
I believe that the internet is going to see a lot more people like me as time goes on. I've noticed over the past year people have started to become dissatisfied with the modern internet. The internet has become centralised around a select few massive platforms, and those sites have progressively more soulless and corporatised. The rise of AI has led to those sites being bogged down with slop, and it is becoming more and more difficult to sift through the mountains of shit and find actually good content. Dead internet theory has risen from a 4chan conspiracy theory to a pretty accurate description of the state of social media. It hasn't come to this point yet, but I believe that we're gonna see an exodus of users who can no longer tolerate the platforms at some point. I doubt it will be a majority of users, but I certainly believe it will be a decent chunk of them. I believe that forums will see a resurgence in the next few years due to this, along with alternative social media and video platforms. Granted, I'm no expert on this topic, so I could be completely wrong, but there has distinct change in the attitudes of people towards modern social media recently
sorry if this post is a little rambling, I'm pretty sleep deprived at the moment.
(12-07-2025, 10:17 PM)st3ve Wrote: [ -> ] (11-07-2025, 10:55 PM)Null Wrote: [ -> ]We need to find more people like St3ve..who long for the old internet. Reddit and Tapatalk are such horrible stripped down versions of what use to be amazing communal hubs.
I believe that the internet is going to see a lot more people like me as time goes on. I've noticed over the past year people have started to become dissatisfied with the modern internet. The internet has become centralised around a select few massive platforms, and those sites have progressively more soulless and corporatised. The rise of AI has led to those sites being bogged down with slop, and it is becoming more and more difficult to sift through the mountains of shit and find actually good content. Dead internet theory has risen from a 4chan conspiracy theory to a pretty accurate description of the state of social media. It hasn't come to this point yet, but I believe that we're gonna see an exodus of users who can no longer tolerate the platforms at some point. I doubt it will be a majority of users, but I certainly believe it will be a decent chunk of them. I believe that forums will see a resurgence in the next few years due to this, along with alternative social media and video platforms. Granted, I'm no expert on this topic, so I could be completely wrong, but there has distinct change in the attitudes of people towards modern social media recently
While I do agree with a lot of this, I'm less hopeful. Our technofeudal overlords have decided that AI is the way to go with everything. Whether we want it or not and the consensus is overwhelmingly not. AI is the new electricity and after your smartphones and smsrtwatches it'll be coming to your toothbrushes next. With a subscription based model, of course. And because they get to foist what they want upon us, because money, the same will apply to our online platforms. The mega sites are going to be the main landscape in perpetuity unless a new, decentralised internet comes along. I'm looking at you, HBO's Silicon Valley seasons 1-3.
I'm also less hopeful because a lot of the Internet users now are too young to even know what the Internet was actually like 15+ years ago. All they've ever known is outrage porn and engagement bait. I feel forums may take off again, but only those who know the way will make it there.
(12-07-2025, 10:17 PM)st3ve Wrote: [ -> ] (11-07-2025, 10:55 PM)Null Wrote: [ -> ]We need to find more people like St3ve..who long for the old internet. Reddit and Tapatalk are such horrible stripped down versions of what use to be amazing communal hubs.
I believe that the internet is going to see a lot more people like me as time goes on. I've noticed over the past year people have started to become dissatisfied with the modern internet. The internet has become centralised around a select few massive platforms, and those sites have progressively more soulless and corporatised. The rise of AI has led to those sites being bogged down with slop, and it is becoming more and more difficult to sift through the mountains of shit and find actually good content. Dead internet theory has risen from a 4chan conspiracy theory to a pretty accurate description of the state of social media. It hasn't come to this point yet, but I believe that we're gonna see an exodus of users who can no longer tolerate the platforms at some point. I doubt it will be a majority of users, but I certainly believe it will be a decent chunk of them. I believe that forums will see a resurgence in the next few years due to this, along with alternative social media and video platforms. Granted, I'm no expert on this topic, so I could be completely wrong, but there has distinct change in the attitudes of people towards modern social media recently
I hope you're right. I'd like to see a retuen to better internet communities than simple subreddits. There's no personality or connectivity in those communities.
(12-07-2025, 09:25 PM)Wayno Wrote: [ -> ]I believe Reddit is anti-communal in the way it's set out. Someone can make a post on a thread but instead of sparking open, active discussion, instead it brings about mini conversations with no way to interweve other thoughts and opinions from other posters in other branches of the comment. It is the antithesis of a forum. I've seen some insightful/funny posts like 14 comments deep that no one gets to see because who the fuck goes down there? Check the upvotes and move on.
Kind of feels like it predated / predicted the tiny attention span of the vast majority of modern internet users, especially with the likes of TikTok. A very short burst of something, move on and repeat. Anything more is too exhausting.