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Anaraxes · 08-10-2018, 01:13 PM

FB has a seriously inferior interface for anything other than temporary, throwaway text. It's slightly better than Twitter if you were trying to actually communicate or interact, but it's much more like Twitter than it is like this forum. No useful search function, no threading, no sub-groups, no ability to format text, exactly one sticky post allowed. I belong to other groups that moved from Web forums to FB groups, and the online community is poorer for it.

Certainly, you have to have a presence on FB. There's too many people that have FB accounts to ignore it. But that FB group is going to be mostly announcements and links. "For more information, go to our real site". FB is analogous to perhaps the Daily Illuminator, not the forum or the whole website.

08-10-2018, 01:13 PM	#8
Anaraxes Join Date: Sep 2007	Re: Facebook FB has a seriously inferior interface for anything other than temporary, throwaway text. It's slightly better than Twitter if you were trying to actually communicate or interact, but it's much more like Twitter than it is like this forum. No useful search function, no threading, no sub-groups, no ability to format text, exactly one sticky post allowed. I belong to other groups that moved from Web forums to FB groups, and the online community is poorer for it. Certainly, you have to have a presence on FB. There's too many people that have FB accounts to ignore it. But that FB group is going to be mostly announcements and links. "For more information, go to our real site". FB is analogous to perhaps the Daily Illuminator, not the forum or the whole website.