What other forums are you a member of?

[Electric_Andy]

I think it depends on what I am/was into at the time. I previously dabbled in car audio, so joined a car audio forum. Lots of good advice. I was also looking to upgrade my home audio system, so joined a home audio forum. Again, lots of good advice but it can also be found on here. I did also join Mumsnet (yes) when I was going through some turbulant times with my ex and had mental health problems. There was a little bit of advice I suppose, but a lot of it was very judgemental and I was often being tarred with a very wide brush.

 

[slowmotion]

I haven't visited it much recently, but I am a member of the snowheads forum (dedicated to snow sports, not drugs ).

I was a member of and moderator on the Supercell forum (a mobile games company) until that was closed down in favour of the company using other forms of social media.

I joined Snowheads briefly to try and discover how to get from Bourg St Maurice to Val d'Isere in the evening without being stiffed for £70 by the rapacious local taxi drivers. They told me exactly how to do it.......smile sweetly at a ski company rep at the station and bum a ride on one of their coaches up the mountain. Surprisingly, it worked.

 

[Andy in Germany]

I'm part of a couple of nerdy model making sites that are so obscure they have a tiny active membership.

 

[Gunk]

Interested in hearing what other website forums our cycling community are members of or if you are just solely dedicated to cycling. I'm a member on a couple of others:

- A Bolton Wanderers supporters forum
- Pistonheads (sorry we surely all don't hate cars )

I used to be quite active on Pistonheads, but pulled away a couple of years ago as I felt that it changed into quite a toxic place.

 

[stephec]

I'm part of a couple of nerdy model making sites that are so obscure they have a tiny active membership.

Forgot about that, I'm on a couple of Facebook groups for plastic kits, I love watching the rivet counters argue about the correct shade of green for a Spitfire's camouflage. 😂

 

[Andy in Germany]

Forgot about that, I'm on a couple of Facebook groups for plastic kits, I love watching the rivet counters argue about the correct shade of green for a Spitfire's camouflage. 😂

I seem to have found the disreputable minority in both; for some reason, narrow gauge model making is pleasantly free of people telling each other what is the "right" way to do things. This is probably because there are a lot of people making entirely imaginary models, rather than striving to make accurate replicas of real machines. The post "Not my style but excellent work, well done" was so common it was suggested it should be a one-click response option.

In tabletop gaming I hang out with the nerds nerds in the Pulp and steampunk gaming with silly contraptions and story based games.

On a busy day the numbers get into double figures...

 

[slowmotion]

I once joined a tilers' forum to try and discover how to lay a limestone hearth for our open fire. They were extremely helpful.

 

[Salty seadog]

I got banned from TalkBass for refusing to remove my thin blue line profile pic.

The US one is fairly political, but the UK one is a bona fide charity, but the tools in charge just didnt grasp that. They got a bit arsey, I lost my rag and told the admin he was a @#£ %^&#* @#÷× and I was banned.

And that's the last forum I ever bothered with after this hallowed establishment.

Are you sure you've spelled that right?

 

[Salty seadog]

That's still not the greatest flounce of all though. 😂

If it's a three page flounce you're thinking of there was nothing great about it.

 

[Pat "5mph"]

No other fora, but I follow several UK gardening channels on YouTube, an Owl (from Russia) channel, many cat channels 🐱
Forgot: I'm subscribed to the Women's Cycling Forum on FB, but I don't contribute very often.

 

[Drago]

No other fora....

You'll never publicly admit to being on the Chilpendales Fan Forum

 

[stephec]

You'll never publicly admit to being on the Chilpendales Fan Forum

So you've bumped into her on there as well then?

 

[Drago]

So you've bumped into her on there as well then?

Not since I let myself go and had to leave the Chippendales.

 

[palinurus]

I'm a member of loads but I never visit them any more! Timetrialling forum, YACF, Talkbass, some electronics production forum that I joined to post one answer to recently, Bikeradar- from C+, a big US cycling forum- can't remember the name- they send me an email on my birthday each year, Cycling UK, a dementia forum.

This is the only one I consistently visit.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

You'll never publicly admit to being on the Chilpendales Fan Forum

Antique furniture appreciation group??