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I've been trying to find active forums off and on for a while now but never any luck. I haven't used reddit much in years but the reddit drama this week caught my attention, stirred a lot of thoughts and made me more determined to find a more traditional message board. So what I did this time was go to the proboards website and browse the most recently created forums until I found one that had affiliate banners. I hopped through the affiliate banners site to site to progressively more active forums, then found this one mentioned in a post somewhere. (I think that was itself a "how did you find this forum" thread...someone there said they came from here.) This wasn't the fastest operation, I visited a lot of empty forums on my way lol. So far I'm happy I landed here, it fits what I was looking for.
I was wondering if the whole Reddit thing was gonna bring people back towards classic message boards! Especially since I feel like Reddit is one of the things that led to their loss in popularity in the first place. I saw a few people on there mention that they missed the classic experience but we'll see how many of them actually follow through with leaving there. I was glad to find this place too.
 
I've been trying to find active forums off and on for a while now but never any luck. I haven't used reddit much in years but the reddit drama this week caught my attention, stirred a lot of thoughts and made me more determined to find a more traditional message board. So what I did this time was go to the proboards website and browse the most recently created forums until I found one that had affiliate banners. I hopped through the affiliate banners site to site to progressively more active forums, then found this one mentioned in a post somewhere. (I think that was itself a "how did you find this forum" thread...someone there said they came from here.) This wasn't the fastest operation, I visited a lot of empty forums on my way lol. So far I'm happy I landed here, it fits what I was looking for.
Hi Torque!
I hope that you will find some 'kindred spirits' here. :!!: Welcome to this forum!!
 
I was wondering if the whole Reddit thing was gonna bring people back towards classic message boards! Especially since I feel like Reddit is one of the things that led to their loss in popularity in the first place. I saw a few people on there mention that they missed the classic experience but we'll see how many of them actually follow through with leaving there. I was glad to find this place too.
Yes, I started wondering how many redditors would end up seeking small time message boards as they started flooding Tumblr during the blackout. Thinking about Tumblr's self-admitted lack of profitability, Twitter's past year of pure nonsense, and the Reddit thing brought to a head some thoughts I've been having about the sustainability of a site that is so large it can't exist without exploiting or annoying its users - made all the worse by a desire to not only exist, but to profit. And I think a lot of other people surely must also be noticing these trends and deciding there's an inherent problem with scale.

But I decided a lot of people are too addicted to the buzz of a huge, multi million active user site even if they wouldn't admit it.

Hi Torque!
I hope that you will find some 'kindred spirits' here. :!!: Welcome to this forum!!
Thanks @passenger!
 
I've been trying to find active forums off and on for a while now but never any luck. I haven't used reddit much in years but the reddit drama this week caught my attention, stirred a lot of thoughts and made me more determined to find a more traditional message board. So what I did this time was go to the proboards website and browse the most recently created forums until I found one that had affiliate banners. I hopped through the affiliate banners site to site to progressively more active forums, then found this one mentioned in a post somewhere. (I think that was itself a "how did you find this forum" thread...someone there said they came from here.) This wasn't the fastest operation, I visited a lot of empty forums on my way lol. So far I'm happy I landed here, it fits what I was looking for.

Your search is over! We aren’t the most active forum on the internet (those forums that are so large that you feel like you’re lost in the crowd / shouting into the wind are for the birds anyway). But we do have a lot of cool people here!

:grouphug:
 
Your search is over! We aren’t the most active forum on the internet (those forums that are so large that you feel like you’re lost in the crowd / shouting into the wind are for the birds anyway). But we do have a lot of cool people here!

:grouphug:
Yeah I reeeeally didn't want yet another void to shout into. Plenty of websites out there do that very well without even trying.

Also I am on the slow side replying and need threads that don't move 3 pages and generate 14 new inside jokes while I write my one post. :D
 
Your search is over! We aren’t the most active forum on the internet (those forums that are so large that you feel like you’re lost in the crowd / shouting into the wind are for the birds anyway). But we do have a lot of cool people here!

:grouphug:
Yeah I think the activity levels here are perfect - enough to call it active, but not so much that you’re lost in a crowd and don’t know most regulars well
 
Admin here is also a member on RIf and decided to check his site and liked it and registered. Ty admin.
 
Registered a while ago, but @Aaron reminded me about this place so here I am.
 
I found this site through the "Forum showcase and critiques" thread on the XenForo community forums. Basically, I was searching through different forum software sites for any showcases & promotions, since it's been a little difficult to find niche sites through any Google search queries.
 

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