Active Forums on the Web

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This is a community curated list of active forums on the internet.

It is linked to the Forum Revival Movement which has been discussed here @ The32bitCafé.

You can join our guild to show your love & support for forums and the forum culture in general. If you like, you might be as well able to join the core team and engage within the movement even more.

Do you speak english and another language on top? That’s great. You should help us to curate the list of forums for your country / region. If you are interested, send me a PM here on this forum or at our guilds place.

Let’s fight for an enjoyable internet culture!

This community-curated list is inspired by @xandra & @yequari’s great Resources List (thanks for bringing up the idea @juette)

I’m not sure how I could enable the ability for other forum members to edit this post. Maybe this has to be done by someone else.

I truly hope this will have an impact on the great culture of web forums that needs to be revitalized. Forums help people connect and share knowledge - That’s what everyone of us should do IMHO.

from Tuffy with :heart:

General Discussion forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Knockout! - A spinoff of the now-dead Facepunch forums. Here you’ll find comedy, politics, video games and various other creative topics.
:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Basementcommunity - Basementcommunity is an active message board for talking about general things and specific things okay?
:united_kingdom:/:united_states: The WELL General discussion board (Paid members only)

Art related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: MelonLand Forum - A forum to discuss all types of art and creative projects.

# Animal & Pet related forums

:united_kingdom:/:us_outlying_islands: Rabbits Online - A forum for rabbit owners with topics about rabbit care, health, diet and much.
:united_kingdom:/:us_outlying_islands: The Planted Tank Forum - A forum for planted freshwater aquarium enthusiasts.

Cannabis related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Mr. Nice Forum - A cultivated place to discuss about cultivating cannabis, cannabis genetics and strain related topics. Led by one of the most influential and trustworthy characters of the cannabis scene (especially in the golden old school era of the 80s and 90s in the Netherlands), Shantibaba.

Computer related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Bleeping Computer Forum - Anything computer related and more can be discussed here. Questions are usually answered in a timely manner. A place for pros and noobs to hang around and discuss about hardware and software related (nerdy) stuff.

Photography related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Dpreview Forums - One of the most frequented forums for amateur photographers, professionals and pixelpeepers. A lot of knowledge about cameras, lenses and accessories is shared here including in-depth reviews and user made tutorials.

Miniature wargaming related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: DakkaDakka - Active Warhammer, Warmachine and Flames of War related forum.
:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Specialist Arms - Semi active wargaming forum
:united_kingdom:/:united_states: YakTribe.games - is a community for miniature and board games with a focus on offering tools for creating and managing Necromunda gangs, campaigns & battles. A good place to discuss about modelling, painting & terrain creation.
:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Chaos Dwarfs Online - Considers itself as the world’s largest and most committed fan group for everything related to Chaos Dwarfs, Helsmiths of Hashut, Infernal Dwarfs, Abyssal Dwarfs & co.

Webmaster & Webdesign related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: The Admin Zone - An old school forum for admins and webmasters that has been around since over two decades and is still pretty active.

Personal website and Old Web / Web Revival related communities

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: 32-Bit-Café - Community of like-minded website hobbyists and professionals helping to make the personal web fruitful and bountiful again. Offers a lot more than only the forum.
:united_kingdom:/:united_states: MelonLand Forum - Has a lot of old web enthusiasts as a userbase and offers webdesign related topics and gives great inspiration for personal homepages.

Gaming related forums

:united_kingdom:/:us_outlying_islands: The Bell Tree - Animal Crossing related forum, features a subforum for discussions about Nintendo games and acts as a hub for trading and meeting New Horizons players online.

:united_kingdom:/:us_outlying_islands: Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages Forum - Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (Wiki) forum, everything about TES series!

Roleplaying related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: Iwaku role play! - Iwaku is Japanese for Story. The main focus of this community is role playing. The site was started by a bunch of Role player’s from many different role playing sites to create a new and active playground.

Science fiction related forums

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: SFFChronicles - Very active forum. It has everything from book to gaming discussions, a busy movie section. This forum is the brainchild of fantasy writer Brian Turner btw.

Your help is appreciated

Below are entries that have been added but have no (proper) description yet or have to be categorized. You can edit the OP yourself and help making this list better.

In need of a description

:united_kingdom:/:united_states: The Miniatures Page (does not work over HTTPS)

To be discussed:

Should we add forums like the one @enesemp has mentioned? Do you think it is to fresh to be listed as an “active” forum?

I would love to hear your thoughts on this!

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You can edit my 1st post to add a forum to this list. This is a community wiki now - thanks to @xandra

I don’t mind adding your recommendation manually if you like to post it as a regular reply. This way, the thread gets recommended to more users, which I think is a good thing.

You can actually do both, edit and post a reply. I would also encourage you to share your opinions about one or more forums in this list, as this would be another good way to keep this thread active.

please don’t forget to add a proper description for the forum you recommend. It can be quite hard to understand what a forum is all about and what makes it unique as an outsider.

Thanks for your support. :heart_eyes:

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This is a great initiative, and I’ve been looking for more forums. I’ve found Cheapskates’ Guide helpful for me. I’ve made accounts on Basement Community and Chronicles.

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Miniature wargaming related forums

General forums:

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made this a wiki & moved this to general community wiki, a new category. :)

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straight up doesn’t load for me?

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Typo. Works now :)

https://www.dakkadakka.com/ (from the noise orks believe their guns make IIRC)

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Iwaku role play is one of the most incredibly robust roleplay forums, if you want a roleplay forum section..

https://www.iwakuroleplay.com/

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These are great additions! It would be helpful if you all add them to the OP, which has been turned into a wiki post.

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Since many here enjoy forums, I thought this would be a great place to introduce mine for the first time. I have been working on it since months, on and off, and I finally feel ready to share it for atleast testing purposes (Im still working on it). While it is not a professional-level forum, it is a heartfelt personal project of mine. At the very least, it is functional I hope.

(go to the forum tab to visit the forum) https://emptylobby.neocities.org/ . Feel free to leave a comment there and to check it out.

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Thank you for all your contributions to the list :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:!

I updated the OP manually.

We still have to decide what we are going to consider as an active forum.

My suggestion:

Very active - new posts are being made daily
Active - new posts are being made on a regular base, at least weekly
Semi active - there are new posts from time to time (weekly to monthly)
Low activity - New posts occur only every few months

What is your opinion on displaying the activity level of a forum in general?

I can imagine that people won’t click on links to forums that are marked as semi active. On the other hand, when people click on the link without knowing about the activity level of that particular forum, they may find out about it on the forum site and leave in disappointment.

The whole point of the Forum Revival Movement is to encourage users to get active in forums and even revive the ones, that don’t have an active user base anymore.

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idk if its a good idea cause it means having to check the whole list every so often to be sure that activity levels are still accurate which adds a lot of effort

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hmm, if the forum has an rss feed you could display the most recent post date pretty easily. But idk how many forums offer that.

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I’ve updated the project page. Still have some forums to add but the list is getting bigger :slightly_smiling_face:

Thank you for your recent edit @juette and @everybody else participating as well ofc :heart_eyes:

You can join the :people_hugging:Forum Revival Guild :smiling_face_with_three_hearts: on the Melonland Forum. We use this as the temporary channel to coordinate actions and stay in touch. @xandra Is anything like that possible here on the 32bit Café as well? Like a separate area or the possibility to stay in contact as a group?

@varve , thanks for the hint. Many forums offer a rss feed. I still have to think about the implementation. A short info with the date of the latest post wouldn’t hurt I guess. Do you think this is a good idea?