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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsWhat are more modern terms for...
... places like DU and Reddit than "bulletin board?" "Forum" doesn't do it for DU, because "General Discussion" and "The DU Lounge" are forums here.
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What are more modern terms for... (Original Post)
LAS14
Mar 2022
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Shermann
(7,455 posts)1. I think of it as a "forum"
I think of "General Discussion" and "The DU Lounge" as "subforums".
BlueGreenLady
(2,824 posts)2. I think of DU like a
Reader's Digest of the Internet. DU Digest??
mitch96
(13,929 posts)3. Forum works for me. When I mention the DU most people don't know what I'm referring to
when I say "Democratic Underground" almost all know when I say "my Democratic forum"
Another older term was message boards and BBS.. bulletin board system.
Way back was the Usenet newsgroups that the prefix was ALT.. LIke Alt sports cars, alt photography etc. That's where the "alt right" got its name from the old usenet format...
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Renew Deal
(81,882 posts)4. Community?
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,047 posts)5. Social Media or political social media. . . . nt
lastlib
(23,322 posts)6. "Discussion board" works.......
LAS14
(13,783 posts)7. Thanks. That seems the best yet.
intrepidity
(7,339 posts)8. I agree with "Discussion Board"
I never consider DU as "social media" but I suppose nowadays it might be lumped in