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This is actually a brilliant idea, but I want to ask about something slightly off-topic, hope others can chime in as well: > Withdrawn mostly from Reddit in fa
by dom96 7y ago
This is actually a brilliant idea, but I want to ask about something slightly off-topic, hope others can chime in as well:
> Withdrawn mostly from Reddit in favor of early 2000’s style forums that I pay money for
I've never heard of such forums. Does anyone have any examples of these? In particular ones that you pay for, but I'm interested in free ones too.
- jfim 7y agoThe SomethingAwful forums [0] used to cost $10 to join [1] in the early 2000s. A more recent example is the Farnam Street community, which costs money to join [2]. [0] https://forums.somethingawful.com/ https://forums.somethingawful.com/ [1] https://secure.somethingawful.com/products/register.php https://secure.somethingawful.com/products/register.php [2] https://fs.blog/membership/ https://fs.blog/membership/
- prostheticvamp 7y agoDoes anyone here use FS? Do you find it helpful (we’ll leave aside questions of cost), or is it like ... productivity porn?
- Chabs 7y agoThe Something Awful forums is the obvious candidate here. It costs a flat 10$ to create an account. This generally makes trolling, spamming and scamming a losing proposition and broadly helps with the signal to noise ratio.
- erikbye 7y agohttps://www.well.com/ https://www.well.com/
- prostheticvamp 7y agoIt’s unclear to me what that -is-. Is it just a paid forum?
- erikbye 7y agoYes, mainly, but it used to offer a bit more than that, not sure of the current status. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_WELL
- 0az 7y agoI'm partial to Sufficient Velocity[1], which is focused on SF and Creative Works. It's a niche space, but it's a niche space I enjoy, for all of its faults. [1]: https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com https://forums.sufficientvelocity.com