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What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I enjoy the way forums work and how they're laid out. I also love how useful they are, especially when so many companies are replacing their entire communities with a Discord channel, which is less than ideal. I only use a few forums, but I'd like to find some more to browse through, it doesn't matter the topic!

My wee list:

TIGSource Forums - Video game developers big and small post here, there's even a section for showcasing work-in-progress projects which is really cool.
The Metal Archives Forums - The main site is pretty much the gold standard for metal music cataloguing. The forums are obviously about the metal genre, too.
Cook'd and Bomb'd - This is a comedy aficionado forum. It's about all comedy, but it originally focused on the work of Chris Morris (Brass Eye, The Day Today).

EDIT: "Meal" to "metal" 🤦‍

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I still find some good answers for questions on my car in some good old, car forums specific to whatever make you may have.

The Fantasy Grounds forum is for a virtual tabletop for TTRPGs that's pretty active, and it's been going through a lot of good UI updates lately since the guy from DnD Beyond joined.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's because the format itself promotes the accumulation of knowledge instead of the constant repetition from Reddit style forums which are better at generating new content.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

I hope we don't lose them. Or someone is archiving all this knowledge.