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📣 skwee357

Are forums dead?


I got a bit of nostalgia to the old days of phpBB forums about computers. I enjoyed the days when forum software was purely a forum software, without any real time messaging/chat, and where people would post longer content than 120 characters.

Are forums dead? Do you know of any active forum on computers, software, hardware?

  👤 al2o3cr Accepted Answer ✓
Definitely not dead; I use several pretty regularly:

* elixirforum.com (Elixir)

* llllllll.co (music hardware / software)

* modwiggler.com (music hardware / software)

Some are Discourse-based, but Modwiggler is still the same phpBB you remember!

👤 sky2224
I think it's just changed a lot. Building a forum is a decent amount of work and it costs money. You also take on some form of liability for your user's content today, which can be a headache and cost even more money to address.

Sites like Reddit, Tomshardware, etc, basically took all the work away while allowing you to build a community around a niche of your interest.

👤 rkhassen9
I really prefer the forum format. It was easy to follow threads...and to find out what worked, doesn't work and who is reputable/like minded to follow.

Other formats are so opaque..

👤 LinuxBender
Not really dead, just buried in search results and some communities have gone private to stop dealing with trolls, bots, AI slop, etc...

To answer your question there is a popular forum for computers, hardware. [1] Tom's Hardware.

[1] - https://forums.tomshardware.com/

👤 fiftyacorn
I miss forums - everything has moved to facebook which makes it harder if you want to come off facebook
👤 cpach
Yes that’s right, punk is dead.
👤 pyb
Check out the eevblog forum