What is the cat’s name? 
Mia (How in Latvian we call this character https://www.moomin.com/en/characters/little-my/ )
Don’t worry, I don’t use “pets name” in any accounts 
Nice, In Italian it is the correspondent of “my / mine” as “My kitten”
Ah, it took me a while to figure out the meaning, is it for the password recovery question? :lol:
Sorry for the OT, but I really like cats, I have 9… And I live in the country, so they’re fine…
You completely missed my point. Let me give an example. Forum users A, B, C, & D are all very active and helpful members here on the forum.
You create a facecrap group and forum user A loves facecrap and moves over to almost exclusively using facecrap and almost never uses the forum any more. Then you create a discord channel and it turns out that user B lives and breathes on Discord so user B almost exclusively moves over to using Discord. Next you create a Mastodon channel, and user C moves over there and largely leaves the forum.
The result of that is that forum users A, B, and C are no longer available to provide help here on the forum. A new user comes onto any one of the platforms and asks a question - but the ideal person to answer that question lives on one of the other platforms, so their question is either not answered at all or is answered poorly. That’s what I mean by the user base is split.
I have seen this exact scenario in several other devices or software that have user support forums. Far better to keep everyone in one place.
BTW, if you decide to move everything to one social media platform, there are many people who ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT go there. That means that they can’t get support for their products, and almost certainly will eventually “ditch this crap I can’t get support for”. Forums may not be ideal, but generally they don’t have the “I can’t stand [fill in whatever social media platform you want]”.
K6cc, bang on, I already visit regularly three different locations when I get bored here, network berg discord, mikrotikZA discord, and IT discord. The moment one of those becomes better than this forum, I would probably spend little time here. But if Normis promises to add Zerotier Cloudflare tunnel as an options package for all devices ( not even part of the OS like wireguard) I will promise to stay.
anav, you were one of the specific people I was thinking of when I wrote my post. However I elected to use generic users A, B, C, & D rather than name anyone…
Hear hear!
Creating side channels looks good for your ‘friends’ or management but this forum should remain the working horse for communications and exchange of ideas and knowledge. All the social stuff is just a distraction, which some people seems to need to know that they exist.
Take it away, then they, in their world, really stop existing.
Funny …
And I was thinking about you when I wanted to post I don’t use any social media either.
Not needed. Just another distraction.
I don’t want to be addicted to social drugs, so…
Looks like you guys have not used social media before.
So, little help for you. Forum is not competing with social media. Social media is for short announcements by the company. It is not a place for discussions. Chill out
Being very chilled out .. not rocking a boat … not even getting close to this boat … you are wrong … social media ARE used as a place for discussion as many or even most of internet users are BOUND to them at an addiction level.
Maybe these platforms are not designed for discussuions but they are used to discuss.
Even Governments nowadays announce crucial info more often via “tweet” or “face” or “insta” etc. than on their official websites.
Just because it’s easier … not better … just easier.
Normis, please stay in your swim lane, which is marketing and support for an IT company. Psychology and social media and harms etc, you know dickus about or wouldnt be so frivolous with your statements.
I think normis’s job is actually herding cats.
His day job? [ The correct spelling is heeding if you meant obeying cats LOL, maybe you meant herding, but maybe not 
]
One step closer to the United Federation of Planets.
This shows how forum starts to be bypassed with crucial info which “leaks” in the new area: https://mikrotik.social/@mikrotik/110389938433147844 even if there is one year old topic with thousdands of views.
Well, you have to keep the users in there entertained too with some fresh content.
BartoszP, leaks are the new marketing trend! 
you had to say it !!!
now you need to do one because of one