Ask HN: Do any discussion boards that aren't Facebook/Reddit still exist?

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YOSPOS is the place where the cool guys hang out, and where scrubs are left out. Let's go to YOSPOS, it's p. chill there.

For the swedes, flashback.

I actually know lawyers who read flashback for a sort of crowd sourced case info. You just have to wade through the casual racism.

go to your search engine and type "[interest/hobby] forum" and you'll find a selection of sufficiently active vbulletin forums, communities, and groups. Random examples -

https://www.rvforum.net/

https://www.woodworkingtalk.com/

https://www.benzworld.org/forums/

etc...

Edmunds forum for cars is very popular

4chan, xda developers, stackoverflow

http://www.digitalfaq.com/ and https://www.videohelp.com/

They're not general interest entertainment forums, but there's a lot of specialist knowledge about analog to digital video conversion.

http://vi-control.net for music production and composition

I'm especially worried about the number of people seeking medical advice in Facebook groups using their real names.

Physorg

Habr

There's all kinds car forums that are still around from the 90's that have maintained a community for 20+ years and are the authoritative source of repair info for many classic models. It makes you weep for the endless amount of expertise and congregated knowledge that is now being locked away in these social media walled gardens and private chat apps like Discord.

https://tortoiseforum.org for turtle/tortoise owners (we have 3).

There are some hobby and sport-specific ones out there, Slowtwitch for Triathletes and Teton Gravity Research for skiers/mountain bikers. Both still pretty active!

For owners of Toyota Tacomas:

https://www.tacomaworld.com/

Check out our forum! 58 million posts. https://www.city-data.com/forum/

something awful is still around, so is metafilter. structurally unspammable because of the paywall

Every single car brand has several board, some popular makes have their own dedicated very popular boards.

This is an odd question. There are tons of active discussion boards that can be found with trivial effort. Other replies have mentioned forums for specific auto makes and models, and you'll find they get spun up quite quickly when a new model comes out, and attract a lot of traffic. I don't think anyone has mentioned Steam discussion boards yet. Heck, Facebook is a discussion board in many respects.

Similar current thread with other examples: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28387249

I mostly only lurk, but https://www.vogons.org/