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I would love suggestions of French language sites! I have found them quiet hard to find, especially of a more than surface level discussion.

• jette_au_loin 6y ago
  France has a few enormous message boards about various topics. forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.)
  • gspr 6y ago
    > forum.hardware.fr is a big one (it's not just about computer hardware, there's a decent section about news/world events, etc.) What I assume is the equivalent, forum.hardware.no, used to be huge in Norway in the 00s too, but then the community more or less got swallowed by Reddit. Did the French one survive?
    • waterpowder 6y ago
      Oh yes, it's very active. Interestingly, the hardware news, tests and reviews closed a year or two ago, but the message board remained.
    • unhammer 6y ago
      diskusjon.no still seems fairly active. Though anytime I search for something non-tech-related in Norwegian ("us taxes norway", "car brake trombone", "kid face blue", "beach meteorite"), I typically get one of the forums Kvinneguiden.no ("the women's guide"), BarniMagen.no ("child in tummy") or MammaNett (… you get the drift). So there's a part of the Norwegian Internet that strangely hasn't been swallowed up by the FRAANG.
    • Glawen 6y ago
      Very active, I find it much better than reddit where I usually cannot find anything useful, the UI is awful on reddit. The real interesting thing is that there are a lot of threads for very specialized topics (e.g. bikes, mattress, pizza oven or torch lights). Before buying something I usually check if a thread exists and read it / ask questions. You however end up having to revise upwards your budget to buy the stuff they recommend.
      • swanswan 6y ago
        Try https://teddit.net/ https://teddit.net/ for an alternate Reddit UI interface.
    • benhurmarcel 6y ago
      I think it's more or less saved by the bad English level of most users. They won't switch to an international alternative.
• alfl 6y ago
  La Quadrature du Net [0] is a collective of privacy advocates, like the EFF for the EU. They run an active Mastodon node at mamot.fr. [0]: https://www.laquadrature.net/ https://www.laquadrature.net/
• croisillon 6y ago
  Rezo.net is a leftist portal, often displaying obscure blogs no one reads. I started reading it around 1999 and I’m glad it is still here. Around 2005 there was a very cute php generalist forum called kopikol.net but I still lament that they had to close around 2008
• renaudg 6y ago
  https://fr.audiofanzine.com/ https://fr.audiofanzine.com/ is a 20 years old French audio/music gear website featuring an exhaustive product database, reviews, newsletters, forum, social network, and marketplace. Most musicians / producers in the country will be aware of it, including probably some famous ones. I don't know of an equivalent in the Anglosphere (gearslutz.com would be the closest thing in terms of forum/community, but lacks most of the other features). Audiofanzine does have some English content, but I don't think that ever really caught on.