What are some active online communities that are entirely oldschool forums?
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pretty much any communuty dedicated to a specific model of car or motorcycle.
astralcodexten.com is an old school blog that still has a very active comments section.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Ugh FetLife has the worst people though. It's all horny men who don't understand boundaries.
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Yes, but the rinky-dink site needs to also have either a majority UK users, or be focused on the UK market to qualify (per my understanding). Otherwise, globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law? Why does, for example, Ridgelineownersclub.com/forums need to go offline when the Honda Ridgeline isn't even sold in the UK?
A lot of small and local news sites in the US, still to this day, just block European IPs because they don't feel like doing GDPR compliance. The UK version costs money to meet compliance, so I can't see this going well for anyone over the long term.
globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law
They can just block access from any UK based IP address and carry on as normal. Like many of them are doing already, including some Lemmy instances (although funnily enough, not lemmynsfw).
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Ugh FetLife has the worst people though. It's all horny men who don't understand boundaries.
Honestly, sounds like an oldschool forum to me!
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Y'all, the UK's law about needing an ID to be on any social media platform over 10,000 users is the canary in the coal mine. Similar laws have already been proposed by US states and other countries. On a long enough timeline, this is coming for us all.
So, with that in mind, I want to get in early with some good old fashioned forum sites. You know, the kind that have no app and don't need my Fing ID to let me sign up.
Any topic welcome as long as the community is active and strong.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]reminds me of Korean internet, where you need to go through rigorous and complex verification using your national ID to even create an account on a shitty website. and then you need to login daily and post consistently to even unlock basic features. and the points accrue slower than karma; people's reactions don't matter nearly as much as just logging in daily and waiting a long time.
Korean website design is by far, hands down, the worst design we've ever come up with in the internet. but hey they got fast speeds!
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Y'all, the UK's law about needing an ID to be on any social media platform over 10,000 users is the canary in the coal mine. Similar laws have already been proposed by US states and other countries. On a long enough timeline, this is coming for us all.
So, with that in mind, I want to get in early with some good old fashioned forum sites. You know, the kind that have no app and don't need my Fing ID to let me sign up.
Any topic welcome as long as the community is active and strong.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/boards/3-poll-of-the-day
90's old, but now with ads.
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globally all forum sites would just fold up because the UK has a stupid law
They can just block access from any UK based IP address and carry on as normal. Like many of them are doing already, including some Lemmy instances (although funnily enough, not lemmynsfw).
Lemmy keeps shitting itself for me, refusing to load anything at all. Im out of the loop on tech for a long time so I cant figure out what's wrong with it, but every time it does it I think "oh this is it, they've just said fuck the uk"
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Y'all, the UK's law about needing an ID to be on any social media platform over 10,000 users is the canary in the coal mine. Similar laws have already been proposed by US states and other countries. On a long enough timeline, this is coming for us all.
So, with that in mind, I want to get in early with some good old fashioned forum sites. You know, the kind that have no app and don't need my Fing ID to let me sign up.
Any topic welcome as long as the community is active and strong.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Something Awful is still around. But the forum isn't free.
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Something Awful is still around. But the forum isn't free.
What? You have to pay to be a racist sexist gore porn addict now?
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What? You have to pay to be a racist sexist gore porn addict now?
You've always had to pay for SA's forums. It's how they keep the riffraff out.
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Yep all the car forms are active. We need to bring back forms. I would like that. And old school chatrooms with no AI or bots. I miss Yahoo chat that also had games you could play with other players. Like Domino's and Pool.
One of the local dial up BBS' I used to frequent was a multi line system with chat, they had a game called TeleArena which was basically a text based MMORPG you could play with the other players online. I think I had more fun with that game and another BBS game called Mutants than I have with most games with graphics.
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Ugh FetLife has the worst people though. It's all horny men who don't understand boundaries.
FetLife is literally the biggest fucking cesspool of humanity on the internet. Its basically just a gateway for predators to find victims.
Source: Was active on it for years, tried to speak out against abusers in the scene, was told "we don't throw people away"
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Y'all, the UK's law about needing an ID to be on any social media platform over 10,000 users is the canary in the coal mine. Similar laws have already been proposed by US states and other countries. On a long enough timeline, this is coming for us all.
So, with that in mind, I want to get in early with some good old fashioned forum sites. You know, the kind that have no app and don't need my Fing ID to let me sign up.
Any topic welcome as long as the community is active and strong.
Ltt fourms isnt old school but its a very active fourm for hobbiest tech stuff.
