Thomas Cameron:
I hate using fora. I generally have to open a separate tab for each forum I'm on, and I'm on a LOT.
Joe Zeff:
Why keep a separate tab for each forum open at all times? How many of them do you actually need to look at each day?
Firstly, I thoroughly agree with all of Thomas's points from his opening message.
At one stage, I was on about 11 different (technical) mailing lists.
It's less now, but even having to go to a few different sites to see what's going on, and tediously reply back in their nearly always badly designed form, is something I refuse to do. Not to mention they rarely allow you to save a draft, to work on a message that takes time to compile. Forcing to use an external editor for such things. And then you find you can't post something because you typed some < or > symbols in and their HTML message handler is crap.
Facebook is the only web forum I participate in, and only because it can't be done in another way, and only because friends kept on dragging me into the damn thing. It's such a massive time-waster.