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[McTraveller]

I think it’s generational: thirty-second videos, 130-character tweets, etc. have trained young minds in short quips, not more drawn-out conversation involving any kind of commitment.

It also seems that traffic in General is way down lately; some days see like only the top 5 threads updated, where we used to have activity on the whole first page.

[heydude6]

I assume future growth in the dwarf fortress community is mainly going to be concentrated in the steam forums from now on. It's a shame honestly. That website isn't really suitable for peek community content like BoatMurdered, so I doubt people there will stick around for as long.

This is just another way in which the internet we grew up with is slowly dying.

[MrRoboto75]

Steam discussions is shite in general.

[EuchreJack]

I'm going to disagree, most of his threads, pretty much all of them, are just random nonsense mush. They get like a few random replies then die, I don't see how that's interesting to be honest. Except maybe the first time you see one and try to engage only to find out that there's no point in doing so. But they are pretty much all the same after the first. And to me, they make bay12 harder to browse by pushing actually interesting threads down and harder to immediately notice and access. So, for me, his threads make bay12 less interesting, and whenever we're deep into a spam storm where like half the front page is his bullshit I pretty much stop browsing general discussion for a bit until it blows over.

Pretty much the only thread of his with any actual content (not added by him of course, but other people) is the AI thread, which is still random nonsense mush, but at least hit at a time when interest in AI is at an upswing, and thus people stuck around, ignored what he said, and had an actual conversation. But, for the same reason that it survived, that interest in AI, I'd argue that if he didn't post it we'd probably still have a thread with discussion about AI ongoing in it. Might even be better with a more reasonable first post (although I'll admit I doubt that one matters much if at all )

Edit: Also this really doesn't matter, but I'm struggling to get over your use of the word "Sub" Jipehog. I guess it's technically an accurate thing to say, given that this is a "sub"forum. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone say it that way, and I think that most of the time when someone is talking about a "sub" in regards to social media they are talking about a subreddit. Noticeably, this is not me saying you should stop saying sub, I just find it very interesting that you do and it puzzles me a little bit.

Actually, one of my threads got repurposed/derailed into an AI thread.  And there are several AI threads by Scoopy, it's just one that people latched onto due to the desire for discussion more than anything else.

Steam discussions is shite in general.

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I think most DF discussion is on reddit and discord.  There are only like three discords on DF...

[hector13]

How do you wipe your bum after pooping?

[Great Order]

Lean to my left, right hand comes in with a piece of bog paper.

I never thought about it until now, but I always do it the same way.

[delphonso]

Where did the "mouse in a maze" experiment originate? It's such a widely recognized symbol of an experiment, but what would it even be testing?

[Egan_BW]

mice's ability to solve mazes, clearly!

[hector13]

Lean to my left, right hand comes in with a piece of bog paper.

I never thought about it until now, but I always do it the same way.

How much toilet paper do you use?

[King Zultan]

I assume future growth in the dwarf fortress community is mainly going to be concentrated in the steam forums from now on. It's a shame honestly. That website isn't really suitable for peek community content like BoatMurdered, so I doubt people there will stick around for as long.

I had a bad feeling that is what was happening, I was hoping we'd at least see a few new people from that whole steam thing.

[Magmacube_tr]

I assume future growth in the dwarf fortress community is mainly going to be concentrated in the steam forums from now on. It's a shame honestly. That website isn't really suitable for peek community content like BoatMurdered, so I doubt people there will stick around for as long.

I had a bad feeling that is what was happening, I was hoping we'd at least see a few new people from that whole steam thing.

Yeah, my old forum went through the exact same thing. Nope. We be dyin'.

[scriver]

How do you wipe your bum after pooping?

I'm a paper folder, not paper buncher

[jipehog]

Edit: Also this really doesn't matter, but I'm struggling to get over your use of the word "Sub" Jipehog. I guess it's technically an accurate thing to say, given that this is a "sub"forum. But I don't think I've ever seen anyone say it that way, and I think that most of the time when someone is talking about a "sub" in regards to social media they are talking about a subreddit.

I actually don't know what the correct technical name for the offtopic ('Finally...') subsection of the forum, but sub seem like a convenient shorthand for any hierarchy system (forums, message boards, folders, domains, etc), especially now days when new platforms often utilize mish mash of elements often under new names when was the last time you heard the term 'message board' in the mainstream..

I think it’s generational: thirty-second videos, 130-character tweets, etc. have trained young minds in short quips, not more drawn-out conversation involving any kind of commitment.

No need to go all freud. People here are for different reasons e.g. maybe they aren't seeking drawn-out conversation, preferring more light hearted improv and show their chops word play, and or preferring other forum/mediums for that purpose.

[Great Order]

Lean to my left, right hand comes in with a piece of bog paper.

I never thought about it until now, but I always do it the same way.

How much toilet paper do you use?

How wet was the shit?

[Criptfeind]

I actually don't know what the correct technical name for the offtopic ('Finally...') subsection of the forum, but sub seem like a convenient shorthand for any hierarchy system (forums, message boards, folders, domains, etc), especially now days when new platforms often utilize mish mash of elements often under new names when was the last time you heard the term 'message board' in the mainstream..

Interesting, I had never considered the correct technical name for such places, I didn't even know if there was one for stuff on the level of "finally...". Now that you bring it up, I went and checked SMF's manual, it refers to sections on the level of "Finally..." as "Categories". And of course Boards for the level of "General Discussion" or "Creative Projects" or the like, and Child Boards for things like "Roll To Dodge"

I don't know if I've ever heard of people refer to them as categories, although perhaps that is because most people don't tend to talk about categories together anyway. I think most of the time when people talk about such things they say "Upper boards" to refer to the "Dwarf Fortress" category (And announcements) and "Lower boards" to refer to the Finally...+Other Games. Since there tends to be a bit of split in the community between these two sections (although plenty of people that use both of course, and plenty of people that don't use all the same lower boards)

Ultimately doesn't matter of course so long as we're mutually intelligible.