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Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down and will be replaced by former Activision Blizzard and King exec Humam Sakhnini, according to a press release. Sakhnini takes over on April 28th. Citron will stay on the board of directors and serve as an advisor to the CEO. “As we enter our next phase, I’ve been reflecting on how I can best contribute to Discord’s long-term success,” Citron says in a message shared with employees and posted to Discord’s website. “The job of a CEO is constantly evolving, and over the years I have continuously ‘hired myself out of a job.’ Usually that means delegating work and then taking on different leadership challenges. However, as I look at what is needed of Discord’s CEO over the next few years, I realize that it’s time for me to literally ‘hire myself out of a job.’” When we interviewed Citron on the Decoderpodcast last year, he said the company had grown to about 870 employees and over 200 million monthly active users. Stanislav Vishnevskiy, Discord’s other co-founder, will remain at the company as chief technology officer. “I look forward to working with Stan and Discord’s talented team to scale our business while staying true to the company’s core mission and the special connection it has with player communities,” Sakhnini says in a statement. “We’re still at the beginning of gaming’s impact on entertainment and culture, and Discord is perfectly positioned to play a central role in that future.” The leadership shift is happening as Discord is reportedly exploring an IPO. In an interview with GamesBeat, Citron said that Discord didn’t have plans to announce about potentially going public, but noted that “as you can imagine, hiring someone like Humam is a step in that direction.” Source: https://www.theverge.com/news/654594/discord-new-ceo-jason-citron-humam-sakhnini

This is my favorite thing about it. Owning my own platform and not having to worry about it disappearing. I control everything, and I'm the one that's going to decide the future of it, not someone else that can easily pull the plug when they feel like it (think MySpace, etc). That's the main thing that's great about owning your own community. You're the backbone and the spirit of it. It's yours. It's your life and blood. The playground aspect is also one of the greatest things too, I can learn new things, test out various ideas, and go from there.

It’s really just a dedicated space to promote your forum content, you don’t have to use it to build engagement directly on Reddit itself. Think of it like having a Facebook page, Twitter account, Tumblr, or BlueSky presence that exists solely to drive traffic back to your forum. Reddit allows this approach, especially since some subreddits don’t let users drop self-promo links freely. With your own subreddit, you can format posts however you want, each one can include a forum link, a summary, or a fresh take on the original thread. That way, you’re not just advertising, you’re giving Reddit users a reason to click through and engage on your own turf.

Partnering up with brands sounds like an interesting concept that could work, especially if you’re able to partner up with a bigger brand to giveaway certain goods or products like a clothing line or a video game company. Even supplying discounts sounds like a cool concept as well. Hosting interviews with members or current owners in your niche would well too. It’ll help establish your community as a leading source of information and knowledge base.

I’m a firm believer that forums aren’t going anywhere. We’ve weathered the MySpace era, the Facebook boom, and now we’re staring down Reddit and Discord. We’ve adapted before, and we can adapt again. The key difference? Forums have always been about ownership—about community-built spaces where people create, archive, and discuss on their own terms. Reddit and Discord might be louder or faster, but they don’t offer the same kind of depth or sense of permanence. We can compete. But we have to evolve—build hubs, not just boards. Give people something more than just threads. As a hub, providing blogs, journals, media galleries or ways to integrate video or social content and features that pull people in from other ecosystems and show them that forums can still be their digital home. Even directories have a way to pull users in. It provides resources that Reddit and Discord don’t offer. With AI scraping our content? It’s not technically a death sentence—it’s an opportunity. Every snippet indexed, every quote pulled into a search result is another breadcrumb back to our site. If we’re smart, we can harness that and convert drive-by traffic into loyal members. The real threat isn’t technology, it’s apathy. The only thing that will kill forums is if forum owners stop being community leaders. If we stop building, stop caring, stop evolving. But if we keep that fire alive, we’re not just surviving, we’re setting the standard. We are the leaders and providers that set the internet standards a long time ago. Without forums, social media wouldn’t exist in its current form. Technically speaking, Bluesky, Twitter, Threads, Reddit, etc are all just a different formats of a forum. Also, with more social media sites implementing ai systems on their apps, I wouldn’t be surprised if we see a shift where users start coming back to online communities.

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If you're someone who regularly finds themselves nostalgic for the days of Windows 3.1, you may be interested to learn about the release of Windows GBS — a new homebrew title developed for the Nintendo Game Boy that aims to bring some of its best features to the legendary handheld (h/t: Retro Dodo). Developed by RubenRetroin GB Studio (a popular tool for creating Game Boy games), it is a software package of sorts that contains a recreation of the iconic procrastination tool Minesweeper, as well as an in-built Media Player that can be used while exploring the other apps, and a Paint program that is compatible with Game Boy Printer. The Media Player includes samples created by the chiptune composer Beatscribe, while the paint program will allow you to draw your own pixel art, which you can then obviously print off and share with others. Needless to say, it's a pretty interesting use of the classic handheld and has already proven popular with fans of the Nintendo device. Last month, when it was released as a €40 physical package, it sold out almost immediately, forcing the developer to work on a second batch. This later restock went on sale on on Etsy on April 17th (courtesy of RubenRetro's publisher CajasRetro) but again sold out, leading the distributor to announce that a third restock is on the way in the coming weeks. Source: https://www.timeextension.com/news/2025/04/someone-has-created-a-version-of-windows-for-game-boy-and-yes-it-includes-minesweeper

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They charge for commerical(api usage). Some customers were sent a notice about it, which was brought up on the Xenforo forum. https://xenforo.com/community/threads/giphy-to-start-charging-a-lot.226648/ There hasn’t been any new news regarding this in ages though.

Some hosting providers allow you to monthly or yearly, but as a forum owner, which option do you prefer to pay? Do you like paying for your server on a monthly basis or do you prefer to pay for your server on a yearly basis? Personally, I always pay monthly as I'd rather not pay yearly, but what about you? Which payment option is your preferred?

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We may be witnessing the makings of a new tech industry feud between competitors. Figma has sent a cease-and-desist letter to popular no-code AI startup Lovable, Figma confirmed to TechCrunch. The letter tells Lovable to stop using the term “Dev Mode” for a new product feature. Figma, which also has a feature called Dev Mode, successfully trademarked that term last year, according to the U.S. Patent and Trademark office. What’s wild is that “dev mode” is a common term used in many products that cater to software programmers. It’s like an edit mode. Software products from giant companies like Apple’s iOS, Google’s Chrome, Microsoft’s Xbox have features formally called “developer mode” that then get nicknamed “dev mode” in reference materials. Even “dev mode” itself is commonly used. For instance Atlassian used it in products that pre-date Figma’s copyright by years. And it’s a common feature name in countless open source software projects. Figma tells TechCrunch that its trademark refers only to the shortcut “Dev Mode” – not the full term “developer mode.” Still, it’s a bit like trademarking the term “bug” to refer to “debugging.” Since Figma wants to own the term, it has little choice but send cease-and-desist letters. (The letter, as many on X pointed out, was very polite, too.) If Figma doesn’t defend the term, it could be absorbed as a generic term and the trademarked becomes unenforceable. Some on the internet argue that this term is already generic, should never have been allowed to be trademarked, and say Lovable should fight. Lovable’s co-founder and CEO, Anton Osika, tells TechCrunch that, for now, his company has no intention of honoring Figma’s demand and changing the feature’s name. We’ll see if Figma escalates. It also has other things on its mind. On Tuesday, Figma announced it had filed confidential paperwork for an IPO.However, should Figma pursue legal action, taking on an international legal battle might be pricey for the early-stage Swedish startup, Lovable, which raised a $15 million seed round in February. What’s more interesting is that Lovable is one of the rising stars of so-called “vibe coding.” That’s where users can describe what they want in a text prompt and the product builds it – complete with code. Its “dev mode” feature was launched a few weeks ago to allow users to edit that code. Lovable advertises itself as a competitor to Figma, declaring on its homepage that designers can use Lovable “without tedious prototyping work in tools like Figma.” And many newly launched startups are doing just that. So this isn’t just a trademark dispute. It is also a bigger competitor cracking its knuckles at a pesky upstart. Figma was valued at $12.5 billionabout a year ago. A Figma spokesperson almost admits as much. The person told TechCrunch that Figma has not sent cease-and-desist letters to other tech companies over the term, like Microsoft, because their products are “in a different category of goods and services.” And Lovable’s Osika is ready to throw a few punches of his own telling TechCrunch that he thinks “Figma should focus on making their product great” and not on trademark marketing. He also tells TechCrunch that Lovable is successfully winning customers away from Figma and other such design tools created in the era before LLMs. As for the overall threat of vibe coding products, in a conversation last month with Y Combinator’s Garry Tan, Figma co-founder CEO Dylan Field naturally pooh-poohed the idea. Field said that even though people like vibe coding for its speed, “you also want to give people a way to not just get started and prototype rapidly but also get to the finish line. That’s where the disconnect is, and not just for design, but also for code.” Still Osika also seems ready to compete. When he shared a copy of the Figma’s letter on X, he used the grinning emoji. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/15/figma-sent-a-cease-and-desist-letter-to-lovable-over-the-term-dev-mode/

I still see a lot of people starting their SEO plans with keyword research like it’s 2012. Not saying keyword research doesn’t matter, it does but if that’s your only move, you’re already behind. These days, SEO goes way beyond blog posts and Google rankings. You’ve got to step back and look at the full picture. Ask yourself: Who actually dominates your niche right now? What platforms are your users spending the most time on? Who’s showing up in search — and why are they winning? Where are the weak spots in those results that you can take advantage of? Then build smart: Pick the platforms you want to dominate (Google’s just one — YouTube, TikTok, Amazon, Instagram, and the App Store all matter now) Reverse engineer what’s already working And carve out your own spot in those ecosystems Truth is, a lot of SEOs are still spinning out WordPress blog posts and calling it strategy. Meanwhile, others are owning search visibility in spaces most people aren’t even paying attention to. SEO today is about visibility across the board. The more places your content shows up, the more trust and traffic you build. And that means going where your competitors aren’t. You could: Create videos around your forum and post them on YouTube, TikTok, and Instagram, videos get indexed and show up in search, and your forum name builds awareness. Use platforms like Bluesky and Threads — both are getting indexed in Google now, so sharing content there helps boost visibility and create new backlinks. Don’t forget Tumblr — still indexed, still a great place to promote your forum and earn backlinks. Just make sure you’re mixing up your content. Don’t just copy and paste forum posts, you want to build awareness and pull in fresh traffic, not get dinged for duplicate content. So, are you still focused mostly on Google? Or are you branching out and building visibility across multiple platforms?

It all boils down to how you want to monetize your forum. You can do a/b testing to see what works and what doesn’t. Such as, placing ads for guests and encouraging them to join, so they don’t see ads or you can treat it as a hobby. It is technically not living a dream, but it’s a possibility that you can make money if you’re able to monetize it correctly. You could also try selling ads instead as a monthly rate, a 6 month or a yearly rate, which would go towards server costs and more. Or, try selling merchandise if you can find someone to design and create merchandise that you turn a profit from. Such as, mugs, t shirts, hats, plushies, hoodies, etc. There has been many forums over the years that have generated thousands of dollars in revenue, especially those that were sold and purchased by VerticalScope. Google adsense pays via a ECPM model now, so it’s easier to generate a profit compared to when it was a CPC model. Especially if a site isn’t able to generate a high level of clicks. Honestly, I’d rather treat my forum as a hobby for now and focus on building it without a focus on monetizing it.

During Meta’s antitrust trial this week, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said that Snapchat would have grown faster if it accepted his company’s offer to buy the social network back in 2013, Business Insiderreports. Court documents revealed that Meta, then called Facebook, offered to buy Snapchat for $6 billion (reports at the time said that the dollar amount was $3 billion). In response to questioning from an FTC attorney, Zuckerberg said he thought Snapchat “wasn’t growing at the potential that it could” and that his company would have improved the app. “For what it’s worth, I think if we would have bought them, we would have accelerated their growth, but that’s just speculation,” Zuckerberg testified. The government brought up the failed acquisition attempt to support its argument that Meta aims to preserve its dominance in the social media landscape by acquiring rivals, rather than competing with them directly. The FTC is looking to force Meta to restructure or sell Instagram and WhatsApp, arguing that the company spent billions to acquire the apps to fend off Facebook competitors, creating an illegal monopoly. Source: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/16/zuckerberg-snapchat-would-have-grown-faster-if-it-accepted-6b-buyout-offer/

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I also have giphy enabled on my forum. I can honestly say it enables users to more fun on their forum posts and topics. It’s a good way to boast engagement and overall community bonding.

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[HEADING=2]Judge rules Google illegally monopolized adtech, opening door to potential breakup[/HEADING] A federal judge has found that Google violated antitrust laws by “willfully acquiring and maintaining monopoly power” in the advertising technology market, rounding out a two-year saga after the U.S. and eight states filed its initial complaints against the Alphabet-owned company. The court will set a briefing schedule and hearing date to determine appropriate remedies for the antitrust violations, per a Thursday filing. The remedies could include forcing Google to break up its advertising business, like selling its Google Ad Manager, which includes the AdX ad exchange and DFP (DoubleClick for Publishers), the ad server used for publishers. Or the courts could force behavioral remedies that would allow Google to keep its business intact, but would impose restrictions to ensure fair competition, like prohibiting Google from prioritizing its own exchange or demand in auctions. In a separate antitrust case, another federal judge last year found that Google illegally monopolized the general internet search market. The judge has not yet issued remedies on that case, but is expected to do so in mid-2025. In the adtech case, Judge Leonie M. Brinkema wrote in her memorandum opinion that the plaintiffs failed to prove that the “open-web display advertiser ad networks” are a relevant market where Google has monopoly power. These networks help advertisers buy display ads across the open web, so they’re outside of closed ecosystems like Facebook, Instagram, and Google Search. The judge did agree that Google violated the Sherman Act by monopolizing and unlawfully tying two parts of the adtech stack together, specifically DFP and AdX, and that Google is guilty of abuse of monopoly power in the publisher-side adtech. “We won half of this case and we will appeal the other half,” Lee-Anne Mulholland, Google’s vice president of regulatory affairs, said in an emailed statement. “The Court found that our advertiser tools and our acquisitions, such as DoubleClick, don’t harm competition. We disagree with the Court’s decision regarding our publisher tools. Publishers have many options and they choose Google because our ad tech tools are simple, affordable and effective.” The Department of Justice – alongside California, Colorado, Connecticut, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Tennessee, and Virginia – filed suit against Google’s alleged use of monopoly power over the digital ad market in January 2023. The DOJ argued that Google achieved its monopoly through anti-competitive conduct when it purchased DoubleClick in 2008, which then became the backbone of its ad business. Google then bought AdMeld in 2011 to gain more control over the ad market’s supply side. The government says this allowed Google to hike up ad prices and harm publishers by taking larger cuts of each sale. The trial for this case began in September 2024 and lasted for three weeks, with closing arguments presented in late November. https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/17/judge-rules-google-illegally-monopolized-ad-tech-opening-door-to-potential-breakup/

The CA/Browser Forum has voted to significantly reduce the lifespan of SSL/TLS certificates over the next 4 years, with a final lifespan of just 47 days starting in 2029. The CA/Browser Forum is a group of certificate authorities (CAs) and software vendors, including browser developers, working together to establish and maintain security standards for digital certificates used in Internet communications. Its members include major CAs like DigiCert and GlobalSign, as well as browser vendors such as Google, Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft. Earlier this year, Apple proposed a motion to reduce certificate lifespans, which Sectigo, the Google Chrome team, and Mozilla endorsed. This proposal would gradually reduce the lifespan of certificates over the next four years from its current 398-day lifespan to 47 days in March 2029. The goal is to minimize risks from outdated certificate data, deprecated cryptographic algorithms, and prolonged exposure to compromised credentials. It also encourages companies and developers to utilize automation to renew and rotate TLS certificates, making it less likely that sites will be running on expired certificates. SSL/TLS certificates are digital files that enable secure communication over the internet (HTTPS) by encrypting data and authenticating websites. They encrypt the connection so sensitive data like passwords and credit card data entered on website forms cannot be intercepted by attackers in the middle. These certificates are also used to authenticate the website and guarantee data integrity, meaning the information exchanged between the user and the server hasn't been tampered with. When those certificates expire without renewal, users see a warning on their browser informing them that their connection isn't private or secure. Currently, the lifespan and the Domain Control Validation (DCV) of those certificates is 398 days, but the majority of certificate authorities agreed that this is too long in today's security landscape. With 25 votes for and none against, the CA/Browser Forum has now ruled to shorten the lifespan as follows: From March 15, 2026, certificate lifespan and DCV will be reduced to 200 days From March 15, 2027, certificate lifespan and DCV will be reduced to 100 days From March 15, 2029, the certificate lifespan will be reduced to 47 days and DCV to 10 days Shortening the certificate lifecycle is bound to introduce management overhead and add a large burden for people who handle multiple domains. However, it is expected to force more frequent revalidation of companies requesting certificates, encourage automation, and ultimately make the ecosystem more agile and secure. This gradual shortening of certificate lifespans gives impacted entities enough time to implement and transition to automated certificate renewal systems, such as those offered by cloud providers, Let's Encrypt, or certificate providers that support the ACME protocol. Source: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/ssl-tls-certificate-lifespans-reduced-to-47-days-by-2029/

Mobile traffic currently amounts to about 59.99% of the internet traffic compared to desktop. https://research.com/software/mobile-vs-desktop-usage When it comes to mobile vs desktop website traffic, 59.99% of the total global web traffic comes from mobile phones. Meanwhile, 37.78% are recorded from laptops and computers (Statcounter, 2025). In another report from Statcounter ("Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share Worldwide," 2025), 62% of the global market share comes from mobile devices. Meanwhile, desktop devices account for 36% of the total web market share. Tablets contribute the least amount, at 2%. In the United States alone, 50% of the market share comes from desktops, 47% from mobile devices, and 3% from tablets ("Desktop vs Mobile vs Tablet Market Share United States of America," 2025). It’s a rising trend that more people are accessing the internet via mobile devices than their desktop computers. As long as you have a responsive theme like [mention=62]Ravenfreak[/mention] stated you should be perfectly fine. Xenforo’s pwa’s app makes browsing forums a lot easier, which gives XF boards an advantage over others. The font on your forum should also be easy to read as well, so it’s in accordance with screen readers. Running a test through Google’s page speed test can help you determine if your font needs to be changed to be optimized for screen readers. https://pagespeed.web.dev/ If your forum has accessibility issues, it’ll have a hard time as well, which the search engines take in account with their rankings well. Accessibility issues are a ranking factor. This also included “alt” tags on images, which tells people and the search engines what images are about. Readable text and contrast ties directly into Core Web Vitals and overall usability.