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What's the difference between Forums and Wall Posts?
MrDementorFace
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Recently I've been wondering what the difference between Wall Posts and Forums are. So it would be really helpful if you could tell me the difference between them.
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Because I like to type even though the answer's given threefold,
Forums, broadly, are for discussion. Wall posts are your own little mini-twitter feed, not designed to have much depth.
Forums, broadly, are for discussion. Wall posts are your own little mini-twitter feed, not designed to have much depth.
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The forum is sorted into different sections based on topic to facilitate discussions on different topics. Forum posts also generate a small amount of account experience because other users can emerald posts they feel contribute to the forum in a constructive or fun way.
Wall posts are places for people to post blurbs about things they're thinking, feeling, or doing in a general space. These posts are not sorted into categories and do not generate account experience.
Wall posts are places for people to post blurbs about things they're thinking, feeling, or doing in a general space. These posts are not sorted into categories and do not generate account experience.
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Skype at this rate really shouldn't be considered as a factor (gone very downhill along a similar track as forums) but the rest is fairly solid. IRC chats were around at the time, but being clunky didn't help them out for usage. Once chats got good? Well, enter discord and, on a similar track, the 'instant gratification' social media platforms.
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I'm not sure you understand my intent. A large part of forum unpopularity came from how primitive and mediocre the earliest IRC platforms were. That said, a platform like discord does and will always have priority over a homebrew IRC platform, which is typically what the term references.
Skype works perfectly fine for you, great. It's also vastly unpopular in gaming, lacking in basic functions a platform like Discord has long taken over, and has been strongly unseated as the thing people ask for when you join servers by an extremely large margin. Skype hasn't gone bad any more than forums have, and yet for similar reasons, both are simply not used much in gaming communities. Skype does retain a capable business following and serves basic communication purposes for a good audience of people, but beyond that - not much else.
Skype works perfectly fine for you, great. It's also vastly unpopular in gaming, lacking in basic functions a platform like Discord has long taken over, and has been strongly unseated as the thing people ask for when you join servers by an extremely large margin. Skype hasn't gone bad any more than forums have, and yet for similar reasons, both are simply not used much in gaming communities. Skype does retain a capable business following and serves basic communication purposes for a good audience of people, but beyond that - not much else.
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forums are specifically themed to something to encourage group discussion or display an event, while wall posts are random thoughts or single things individuals want to share, or for some to display their weird sense of humor
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