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What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend? (lemmy.world)

submitted 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I enjoy the way forums work and how they're laid out. I also love how useful they are, especially when so many companies are replacing their entire communities with a Discord channel, which is less than ideal. I only use a few forums, but I'd like to find some more to browse through, it doesn't matter the topic!

My wee list:

TIGSource Forums - Video game developers big and small post here, there's even a section for showcasing work-in-progress projects which is really cool.
The Metal Archives Forums - The main site is pretty much the gold standard for metal music cataloguing. The forums are obviously about the metal genre, too.
Cook'd and Bomb'd - This is a comedy aficionado forum. It's about all comedy, but it originally focused on the work of Chris Morris (Brass Eye, The Day Today).

EDIT: "Meal" to "metal" 🤦‍

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[–] stoy 13 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Flashback.org

The biggest Swedish forum on the internet, nutorious for having a very uncensored community (they are hosted in the US as Swedish law isn't as permissive in terms of free speech, not by much, but enough to make it worth it), so you'll have to ignore a shitload of racism, sexism, homophobia and more crap to read it.

The reason I read it is that they love discussing current events, if you notice something on the news, a shooting or other gang war stuff you will find a thread about it with the location of the incident, information about who lives there if it is a house or apartment building, this information includes names of possible people involved, their vehicles and countless racist/sexist/homophobic/classist/other remarks, I mainly just want the location so I know what area to avoid.

They also have the greatest Swedish forum thread in the history of the internet:

"Dumma saker ni gjort" - "Stupid things you have done".

This is a thread that runs 131 pages, of glorious posts of Swedish teenagers in the early 2000s talking about stupid things that they have done. As a Swedish millenial who grew up in and around those years, everything is so amazingly familiar to me, making the thread increadibly funny.

I am not sure how well Google translate will work on the thread, becaue there is a LOT of sloppy spelling, which adds to the charm of the posts, but here is the link:

https://www.flashback.org/t97921

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 weeks ago

Now I know where to go when I feel like I'm ready for native-level input in Swedish!