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I tried Imzy, but I can't like it. It's not forum-ey enough, draws too strongly from social networks: if your forum looks like a social media site, you won't have good discussion: that interface isn't optimized for it.

a.f.p on the usenet (that's alt.fan.pratchett for the uninitiated) used to be good, but it seems to be nearly dead now. :-(.

Bits of reddit are good. I love /r/adventofcode this time of year (although that's seasonal and event-specific).

If you're looking for proper, real, actual forums, I can reccomend a few. The xkcd forums are still excellent, give or take. If you like dwarf fortress, the bay12forums are good.

And onto the chans: much maligned as they are.

4chan's /tg/ is shockingly good if you like tabletop games (WH40K in particular): it's a blue board, so it's not totally flooded with porn constantly, and it's also got a decent community and isn't horrifically acidic, unlike, say, /g/.

Also, even if you don't like the chan, the wiki, 1d4chan, has a tvtropes-like stickiness about it, essentially being a best-of reel of the entire community. You should at least read The Tale of Old Man Hnderson, as it is one of the most famous in all of RPing.

7chan (http://7chan.org) was created as a reaction to 4chan, and it shows. Posting quality is enforced, and the mods are quite punishing. But as a result, quality is reasonable, AFAICT (although I am not a regular)

Sushichan (https://sushigirl.us) is a "relaxed" chan.

And than there's Lainchan.

Lainchan is a cyberpunk chan (sort of). It also has a strong programming and anime focus (with a name like lainchan, would you expect anything else?) It bears a semblance to HN in some ways, but it's a chan, make no mistake, and quite different in others. Just go look if you're interested.

Of additional interest is lainzine (https://lainzine.neocities.org), lainchan's official unofficial magazine. The typical immidiate reaction to lainzine, AFAICT, is "what the hell did I just read?" and I speak no hyperbole in saying that it is like nothing else on the internet.




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