I see a lot of people saying online that “forums are dying off because of discord and reddit”
yet other people reply: “Well, I’m still using my forum/IRC.”
So I have to ask, what forums that are decently big still exist? Only one I can think of is Nomutantsallowed for fallout related content.
The Dwarf Fortress forum is most likely full of big bearded dwarves. Also the Elder Scrolls lore community is my magical hangout, Warhammer too.
The EndeavourOS forum to give support (I use base Arch, but they’re close enough), the Lutris forums, and Blenderartists. Stackoverflow and similar services, and various issue trackers, if you count those.
I love how Whirlpool has stuck to it’s guns with regards to staying text only.
It survived a world of phpbb, avatars, and animated GIFS and is now surviving a world of social media and “engagement”. It’s like Usenet with moderation and no binaries.
Helps that it’s fast as blazes too.
If you’re into headphones and related encoutrement, head-fi.org is still thriving.
There are some good Matrix community, on matrix.org as well as individually run homeservers (federated).
is there a matrix client for Android? last I checked there was like, one, and it wasn’t very good. whereas there’s like 14 different Lemmy apps, many of which are fabulous.
Element X is quite good now (note the X, not the classic ‘Element’). Fluffychat’s good too but missing some features.
I am not a big fan pf matrix but I think SchlidiChat was the one I used most successfully on android.
From what I have seen a main issue with Matrix is that the protocol can be implemented in bits and pieces. Which is perfectly fair but it leads to an inconsistent user experience. The default web clients you first use to try it out will be using strong encryption settings by default but then a lot of the mobile or native desktop clients don’t support encryption. So it’s difficult to get going finding cross platform apps that have all the desired functionality consistently between them.
In terms of the apps, I don’t think comparing matrix to lemmy is exactly fair for this reason.
FluffyChat is pretty good these days https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/
matrix isn’t a forum. it’s a chat.
Incorrect. Technically Matrix is a protocol, and a forum client can be made. You already have some PoC social media ones. It just so happens that most well known clients at this time and for instant messaging. But it can be much more.
that’s interesting… I guess a forum and a chat have a lot of similar attributes. The difference is in the presentation with forum being more static appearing. What would be the reason to deploy Matrix like that instead of using a purpose-build forum software? The most obvious would be not requiring a second account.
What’s PoC?
People still post to lobsters
Would be nice if they actually let people join!
yes please!
Not many though. On the FrontPage, the only post that has Kore than a few comments has 70, which is not many, by today’s standards.
A1k.org for all things regarding Amiga Computers
www.knockout.chat
Shared by @Obsidian@lemmy.one on the other thread
https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today?ueid=6310597850b065b278e2b143b21b73b5
Over the years, forums did not really get smaller, so much as the rest of the internet just got bigger.
https://forum.language-learners.org/
Language Learner’s Forum is still quite active and pretty large community.
https://latindiscussion.org/ Latin Discussion is still pretty active
If you like Sid Meier’s Civilization then CivFantatics is really quite active very much.
There are the Woodwind.org forums of course but they aren’t as active as the others. I think that Saxophone.org is somewhat active but less so than it used to be.
The only two that I ever still make use of are XDA for custom firmwares and other Android related shit. And Pokecommunity for the ROM hacking / decompilation stuff.
To me, some NSFW forums, like F95 and LoversLabs
SomethingAwful is still very active!
4chan is as well, but it’s been shit since 2009 (inb4 /b/ was never good)
Remember when /b/ was good??
No, because it never was.
Kids confused it with good because it was the equivalent of running around an abandoned building throwing dog shit and broken glass at each other while spraying paint on the walls, because no adults told them not to. But when you tire of that, it’s just an empty husk full of dog shit and glass.
Easy there. “Remember when /b/ was good?” is a meme from /b/ itself. The answer even in 2010 was “/b/ was never good”.
My first serious romantic partner in the mid-2000s told me “the more I browse /b/, the more I understand you” and in retrospect I don’t know how I feel about that
Yeahhh… somewhat cringe in hindsight, but a core part of old internet.
- https://budgetlightforum.com/ flashlights et cetera
- so many automotive forums
- https://eevblog.com/forum electronics engineering
- https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/ audio, lots of diy
- https://www.finishing.com/ - metal anodising/plating/finishing. This incredible forum has been running since before the internet, originally a BBS.
- https://www.automaticwasher.org/ washing machines and dishwashers
- https://elektrotanya.com/ electronics repair
