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[–]seether 8 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 0 fun9 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Why not just use the old name for them and call them forums? Saidit is the site and it is made up of forums for discussion?

[–][deleted] 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Why not just use the old name for them and call them forums

There's a case to be made for this but sites like these are also content aggregators

[–]cloudrabbit 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Because forums are a different thing. You don't have a tree-like comment structure on forums; you also don't access a forum via /r/, /s/ path suffix, it's usually more nested.