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.