[RainbowSix]

I was using the forum style of communicating over 30 years ago, it was then - the best way to have a discussion, in some ways it still is - having a thread about a specific thing rather than the more modern Discord way of having a channel and many cross discussions are going on.

Discord has recently introduced forum type threads to channels so discussions can be kept on topic.

Facebook too has the ability to have chats that are topic specific.

However, a forum alone, PHBB format or whatever language used to write it - is old and does not port well onto mobile phones, which is the highest method for social media discussions now.

Unfortunately it's just the way it is, it's only us older die hards that use forums that will keep them going for general discussions, or the fans that keep them specific (although there are Facebok groups galore for football).

If we had the ability to filter out the football threads from the new posts search, it would not give many results if any most days. That's the way it is.