Bethesda forums shutting down

[Leonardo]

Reposted from the MA forum on Nexus.

For anyone that has mods there you might want to know...

https://bethesda.net/en/article/3nf1...s-to-be-sunset

Sadly, this decision is more or less a farewell from me to Bethesda as I don't like chat, never has I suppose.

[Dismounted Feudal Knight]

Internet is a pendulum. Discord's getting scale every day, but that scale is eventually going to seed a) an ironic flip to forums or at least b) a flip to at least a more locally hosted solution.

I guess eventually when it does flip to forum/forumlike, what becomes popular still won't be conventional boards but some hybrid of chat and forum instead. We've seen a few examples of this, though I find them quite ugly myself...

[Leonardo]

FYI, it is no longer possible to download and install my mods via the in-game mod manager, because I've deleted all mods I uploaded on Bethesda.net due to their decision to shut down the forum.

[Septentrionalis]

As I recall, you had a forum of your own for Bethesda games, Leonardo. Do you see any opportunity here to spread the word? I could join, even if it seems unlikely that it would ever get massive traffic without some serious marketing effort.

[Dismounted Feudal Knight]

A signature to promote it should work fine, I think it might have to pass through Hex to drop the link in a post though.

It is a market though, even if old fashioned forums are not in their hayday. From what I recall the forum would need some skinning work as well, since what I remember is a stock phpbb skin. For all its strengths, phpbb needs some work for it to gain traction over an equal Discord, reddit, similar managed community...

[Dismounted Feudal Knight]

I'll also pitch the radical, improbable and likely impossible...

escenter.net (or some such)