My last post gave me the idea for this post. I was wondering if any of you post on any other forums?
I can be found on a few others. Cycling, Carlise, music, chef and a American Football forum. I mainly spend my time on here and have been catching up with posts that have been made in the past. There are some crackers on here, which I have really found really interesting and funny.
I have done the same on other forums and found them funny as well.
What forums do you find interesting, other than this one and the darkside?
I am a long time member of an American home brewing forum. After learning most of anything I need to know about brewing, I still hang around there to debate politics, ethics etcā¦I honestly donāt know why I still go there!!!
I ābelongā to a number of fora (pedancy at its best there). Mainly political and to do with where I live now but also a great Southampton one - pictorial archive.
But my favourite is āthe wonderful world of balletā.
I read a few other forums, but donāt really post anywhere else apart from here now. The same was true over at TSW. I still have my UI account and occasionally post there, but these days, itās usually only to promote this place or recruit Barry Sanchez.
While the Internet affords the opportunity for communities to easily merge around concepts, rather than vicinity, I find the āspecialistā end of most things a bit off-putting. I like chatting with contemporaries, and I think a good mix of people is essential else forums becomes the playground of the an increasingly vocal minority.
TSW was pretty cool off the footy boards, but the main board remains hard work to this day.
Oh yeah the UI. I forgot about them. They are my first forum since 2001 and I very rarely dip in to that one these days, but know a lot of the posters on their personally. Used to go to all games with them! Fun times.
Iām on a number of technical forums, but only when I need to scream for help. I also monitor and post on Computing at School - a forum that brings teachers and IT professionals together for the benefit of students.
Mostly Vintage Aircooled VW forums. In fact Iām the only British moderator on the largest and best Aircooled VW forum in the world (claim to fame ).
Just to make Pap either jealous or thankful that Sotonians hasnāt got that big yet, their highest number of visitors at any one time was 3358 this time last year.
Here are some more stats to get your head around:
20 million page views/month 66,000+ visitors/day 731,000+ unique visitors/month 342,000 account members 6.8 million+ forum messages 106,000+ active classified ads 1.2 million+ Gallery photos
Iām sure the forum you use is probably an American one, but so many people here just donāt get that attitude in most matters. I always find Americans most endearing when they go against the āMax out everythingā flow.
It is an American site and most of them get the ācommunity spiritā of these kind of forums. I have a great deal of time for Americansā¦wonderfully open and generous people. Youād love these guys who race their VWs on Bonneville Salt Flats every yearā¦pumping horse power based on the 1200cc 36hp aircooled engines. This one broke the record over the measured mile when I was there in 2011⦠82 mph