by realityfactchex
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- There's no known truly superior alternative to Facebook Groups (and the original article is, obviously, not what it once was, anymore, either).
A lot of possible alternatives appear to come close, but none really satisfies it.
The area is very ripe for disruption.
by WorldMaker
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- Several of my once-Facebook groups have moved to Discord. The Discord business model seems relatively aligned to user-friendly in a free-to-start way that mostly scales with community interest (individuals self-selecting to Nitro; Nitro boots into a community), for the most part, today.
(There are doubts the current model survives the next step in investment rounds, an IPO, but we'll see.)
- Most groups here in Argentina run on WhatsApp. You get like a hundred messages per day. Luckily someone pins the important messages, she deserves a medal.
Racket is using https://www.discourse.org/contact , but I'm not sure how civilian friendly it is.
- Everyone older moved from Facebook to WhatsApp years ago. The youngsters went to Insta instead.
- At this point, I'm so tempted to just write some mobile-first forum software or make an alt-reddit. Communities have so much value, but they barely exist anymore.
by al_borland
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- I have a NextDoor account, which is made for the neighbor stuff. That said, I don’t manage a community on it and haven’t actually logged into it in over a year, so I can’t really speak to its quality. I did have to spend a lot of time turning off notifications, it is very noisy by default.
- We actually have an old fashioned email list. It's a Google Group, because Yahoo Groups shut down.
- There's lots of web-forum software out there... I like the FB group UX, but it's definitely gotten worse over time. I think the problem is network affect and notifications in general.
I've gotten to where I disable notifications on almost everything to the point I usually don't even see a lot of messages until I check myself.
I'm more inclined to write my own, but that feels like such a hit or miss proposal at this point.
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