what forums are out there that people actually go to, besides Lemmy?

[hanrahan@slrpnk.net]

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

[xaphanos@lemmy.world]

https://www.cloudynights.com/

[chaoticnumber@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

https://forum.level1techs.com/

[Guest]

knockout.chat/

[uxellodunum@lemmy.ml]

There are some good Matrix community, on matrix.org as well as individually run homeservers (federated).

[uuldika@lemmy.ml]

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.

[kate@lemmy.uhhoh.com]

FluffyChat is pretty good these days https://matrix.org/ecosystem/clients/

[mx_smith@lemmy.world]

People still post to lobsters

[Guest]

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.

[zero22xx@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

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.

[trk@aussie.zone]

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.

[Guest]

Incredible

[icastfist@programming.dev]

To me, some NSFW forums, like F95 and LoversLabs

[Guest]

Shared by @[email protected] on the other thread

https://aftermath.site/best-active-forums-internet-today?ueid=6310597850b065b278e2b143b21b73b5

[blaiz0r@lemmy.ml]

Would be nice if they actually let people join!

[dengalicious@lemmygrad.ml]

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.

[rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

SomethingAwful is still very active!

4chan is as well, but it’s been shit since 2009 (inb4 /b/ was never good)

[niquarl@lemmy.ml]

Openstreetmap also has some forums. The main one being community.openstreetmap.org

[rcbrk@lemmy.ml]

• 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
• This incredible forum has been running since before the internet, originally a BBS: https://www.finishing.com/
• https://www.automaticwasher.org/ washing machines and dishwashers
• https://elektrotanya.com/ electronics repair

[Guest]

Remember when /b/ was good??