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Me, too. I mean, a xkcd forum is not that surprising but half a million users while I never heard about it existing? Could that have been a honeypot? At least
by bhaak 7y ago
Me, too. I mean, a xkcd forum is not that surprising but half a million users while I never heard about it existing?
Could that have been a honeypot? At least partly? That's something xkcd would do.
- Tuna-Fish 7y agoNo, it's real. It used to be prominently on the site sidebar, but it got very big around the time xkcd first got popular, and the link was subsequently removed. After that, you had to know it existed and just go directly to forums.xkcd.com, so the only people who knew of it were generally the people who were early xkcd readers or people invited by them. Imho it's one of the better open "offtopic" discussion forums on the web, partly because of insular culture trending towards thoughtfulness.
- jimhefferon 7y agoI ran into it by Googling, so it was not hidden well.