# What about medium tech?

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**Created:** [June 22, 2024, 5:23pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207 "2024-06-22T17:23:05Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 7:21am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-about-medium-tech/313207/13 "2024-06-24T07:21:26Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> What I’m wondering is if the people who make decisions for non-tech organizations are aware of Discourse.

They may or may not, but that isn’t the questionmark. The issue here is forums feed only Google and registrate users. And they get that already via WWW.

They aren`t looking for discussion. Xwitter, and all social media in general, is made for monology, and sharing.

With common people the difficult of forums is they should find a different forum for every niche. One for pets, one for hiking, one for gardening. And there isn’t nowadays. I have the biggest dog/dog feeding related group of Finnish Facebook, around 30 000 members. And even I have the biggest Finnish website of same niche I can make only 1000 human visits a month, and only via Google and sharing links in that group\[1\]. And I have related forum, spiced with more universal topics — there is only something like three hundred registerated users and only handful of those are active. Sure, Discourse tells I have 500 - 1000 anon views every day, but big part of those views are one time visits via Google.

I’ve asked what is the biggest problem not to use forum. The answer is always same:

- it looks strange and is difficult to use
- everybody is on Facebook

From my point of view this topic is another ”how we can beat sosial media” and… we can’t. But sure, there are different examples too that gives a bit hope. Like the biggest (and only AFAIK) finnish ice hockey related community of a team is using Discourse. iNaturalist and its finnish branch uses Discourse too.

CDCK is reaching that goal. But they are targeting support forum style and that way they are living in totally different world than we other.

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1. Facebook is now actively banning such link sharing posts, because those only tries to get clicks 🤦‍♂️

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