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What old-style forums do you still frequent? Any you'd recommend? (lemmy.world)
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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" ๐Ÿคฆโ€

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[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Lol, I remember tree style forums in the early 2000s.

Just because vBulletin/PHPbb/InvasionPowerBoard/punbb didn't use them doesn't mean it didn't exist

[โ€“] Tellore@lemmy.world 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The only tree structured texting thing from back then that I remember is mailing list conversations. If you remember any names of old forums like that, it would be interesting to research. Maybe there are still screenshots or archived pages of those.

[โ€“] stoy@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

I seem to recall reading postvagnen, a Swedish railway forum, that had a tree structure in 2005 or so