The problem with closing threads is that now all the people in future will face a wall. Even if they’d create a new thread, that thread will only be visible to people who look in the forum and in chronological order.

Compared to the people on google, which is where everyone is, the people on the forum are a rounding error to zero.

Google does not host conversations (thank god, for now), so there needs to be a place for those hundreds of millions of people to find each other.

And more often than not, they find themselves on a closed old thread, unable to talk to one another.

Old style forum shutdown more discussion that they have ever hosted and they don’t even realize it.

Old style forum are one of the worse information choke point of the entire internet.

This is why reddit has become the center of the internet and why putting “reddit” at the end of your search is so effective.

But now reddit is going to die and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be another “center” of the internet.