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I got a bit of nostalgia to the old days of phpBB forums about computers. I enjoyed the days when forum software was purely a forum software, without any real time messaging/chat, and where people would post longer content than 120 characters.Are forums dead? Do you know of any active forum on computers, software, hardware?

Definitely not dead; I use several pretty regularly:* elixirforum.com (Elixir)* llllllll.co (music hardware / software)* modwiggler.com (music hardware / software)Some are Discourse-based, but Modwiggler is still the same phpBB you remember!

I think it's just changed a lot. Building a forum is a decent amount of work and it costs money. You also take on some form of liability for your user's content today, which can be a headache and cost even more money to address.Sites like Reddit, Tomshardware, etc, basically took all the work away while allowing you to build a community around a niche of your interest.

I really prefer the forum format. It was easy to follow threads...and to find out what worked, doesn't work and who is reputable/like minded to follow.Other formats are so opaque..

Not really dead, just buried in search results and some communities have gone private to stop dealing with trolls, bots, AI slop, etc...To answer your question there is a popular forum for computers, hardware. [1] Tom's Hardware.[1] - <a href="https://forums.tomshardware.com/" rel="nofollow">https://forums.tomshardware.com/</a>

I miss forums - everything has moved to facebook which makes it harder if you want to come off facebook

Yes that’s right, punk is dead.

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I really prefer the forum format. It was easy to follow threads...and to find out what worked, doesn't work and who is reputable/like minded to follow.Other formats are so opaque..

I miss forums - everything has moved to facebook which makes it harder if you want to come off facebook

Yes that’s right, punk is dead.

Check out the eevblog forum

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