![]() ![]() I probably haven’t used a forum since the mid-2010s since I mainly stick to Reddit, but looking at these pages from the Wayback Machine makes me pretty sure that I didn’t miss anything.īut I have seen some complaints on Reddit about the removal of some older posts on things like Arena’s hidden ELO, how the shuffler works, and some behind-the-scenes posts from the developers. Now, I wasn’t really one to use the forums. Even if you dive a little deeper you’d just get a list of threads, much like any other forum. That’s all you get a couple generic subforums and a preview of recent posts or Wizard’s official replies. I feel like Discord and Reddit are the major players in this thanks to their popularity and how they can be broken down into niche communities.īut not all is lost thanks to the Wayback Machine, which lets us glimpse from beyond the grave to see the final day of the forum’s operation. Sony closed their PlayStation forums in February of 2020, and most new products, websites, and games never even had forums to begin with. While Reddit is probably the closest spinoff of forums, each of these platforms is immensely more popular than any forum. Each of these platforms has grown and surpassed forums from almost every angle. You can see the impact of social platforms like Twitter, Facebook, Discord, and even Reddit. Well, forums aren’t really popular anymore. These slowly became chat rooms and internet forums as the ‘90s grew into the era of massive social media platforms that we see now. ![]() Way back in the olden days, things like IRC and Usenet were the standards for fostering a community and communicating. The MTG Arena forums were shut down on Octolike many other forums in its past and many more in its future.Īs the internet evolves, so do its communities. ![]() Propaganda | Illustration by Clint Cearley ![]()
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