Sure thing! Here it is, the Hero’s Hideaway! Again, still getting it off the ground, but I plan on being more active there myself :>
Also yes, please do treat yourself well!!!
Hi! I want to boost a forum that was instrumental to getting me into the planted tank hobby, PlantedTank.net . They have had a serious decline in users lately, but the Tank Journals are an incredible resource - people make a journal page about their progress on a project, solicit advice, update it months later, and post successes and failures.
It’s nice to see online conversation around ongoing projects in threads like this vs disembodied posts about the current state of a thing. I should probably make some posts to contribute 
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Thanks! One advice I can give you straight away, your forum does not reflect what it is about. Whether in the title nor in the description. Even the names of the the sub-forums give no hint what your forum is about. If you want other Pikmin fans to join, change the title to something like “Hero’s Hideaway - The #1 international Pikmin forum on the web” or something along those lines. If you want, I can give you further advice. Just ask.
That actually is a great idea IMHO 
If you like, you can start by adding your forum to the list
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Noted! I’ll brainstorm some ideas, though I do want to note that the forum + subfroums are named after an area + subareas in Pikmin 4. It’d be like naming a Zelda forum Faron Woods, or a Pokemon forum Pallet Town.
I’ll probably go with “Hero’s Hideaway: A Pikmin Forum” or similar :]
That’s a good idea. Thanks for the clarification. Having your targeted audience know what the forum is about when browsing is one thing but having it listed on the first side of search results for pikmin forum or related terms is the other. You could as well try to explain what makes your forum different from other existing pikmin forums. Like, the most cozy place for pikmin fans or something similar. If you really put effort in creating a community, you can make it flourish, even today
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Coincidentally about the time this thread was started, someone remarked to me how they miss forums these days. And I thought they are still around, surely it’s just a matter of finding them. So as a little experiment I kept track of the forums I stumbled upon while just browsing the web.
Turns out there are a lot, who know :), what I also realised in the last 3 months was that collecting all of them is a task that is way beyond the capabilities of a single person. I feel like a forum phon
ebook (forumbook?) would best realised by a collaborative approach. A wiki of sorts seems like the best approach imo.
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I see a need from the art end of things. Artists miss the famous conceptart (dot) org forums, because people would chip away at their sketchbook threads and they would get really impressive. Then the website was sold or taken over or something and killed that really healthy ecosystem people still talk about 10+ years later. Some forums did something similar since then but most of them are dead. I’m in art discords now and the irc nature does kinda make conversations disorganized or stray where having sketchbook threads kept people focused and others liked to look through them. Or perhaps for people chipping through bigger projects like comics.
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I’d love to see a rebirth of art forums devoted to different genres of art. I’ve tried a few art discord servers and subreddits, but most were either overcrowded or dead.
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