You know you are getting old when:

[tamoko]

"Forums" as social media became brontosaur form. On all forums user claimed that more and more people moved to the FB, X, Insta, even Facebook became media for "Old people". Forums became more closely specialised communities, but this make Forums to expensive for forums owners keep support for small amounts of people. We will see how this will be changing in future, gen Z don't care about Fedora time like a Napoleon war.

 

[Turnip]

So don’t all other Boomers i know around and even the very mass of their/my parents generation, born during war or soon after.

 

[Trenchfriend]

If you close an off-topic area in a community, you can close the community itself. The time of "pre-DSL era forums" is over since fifteen years at least.
Even big european/german magazines closed down their own online communites, althought these were still vital. Others even never established such, while launching online newspaper abos.

When the smartphone bubble came up 2011/12, this was killing pre-smartphone times, at least in Europe.

 

[steve u]

You know your getting old when: I'm to old for this.
Edit: It is ironic talking to (some)old Men about old times on (to) a computer.