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There are many forums for specific communities: specific car brands, sometimes even specific car models, watches, keyboards even (!), etc. I'm on forums like t
by TacticalCoder 3y ago
There are many forums for specific communities: specific car brands, sometimes even specific car models, watches, keyboards even (!), etc.
I'm on forums like these and they're doing totally fine. And if anything with the recent Reddit SNAFU the last thing users there want is for some central authority in SV to decide what they're allowed to talk about.
- the_af 3y agoAh, interesting. To be clear, I also meant for specific communities: like for specific hobbies or tabletop games, or niche interests. They've all abandoned forums and, regrettably, moved on to Facebook or Discord. I'll never understand why they choose Discord, a closed chat platform, for forum type discussions. At this point I feel like Quixote tilting at the wind mills.
- Ringz 3y agoI don't understand that either. Discord feels like a hamster wheel connected to a turbocharger.
- readingnews 3y agoI am not so sure they all went FB/Discord, some I use(d) for example: https://www.watchuseek.com/ https://www.watchuseek.com/ https://www.rolexforums.com/ https://www.rolexforums.com/ https://www.audioasylum.com/ https://www.audioasylum.com/ https://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/ https://www.audioheritage.org/vbulletin/ https://el34world.com/Forum/index.php https://el34world.com/Forum/index.php (A simple machines forum, this guy has been here forever, and he wrote his entire online shop himself) https://www.civicx.com https://www.civicx.com There are a LOT of niche forums out there that are not FB/Discord, and keeping track of them is a pain. I do wish newsgroups were still a thing for hobbies.
- Parker51 3y agohttps://www.qrz.com/ https://www.qrz.com/
- flyinghamster 3y agoThe trick is finding these, especially with today's crippled search engines. But indeed, it tends to be subject-specific forums rather than general-interest.