Is this the only old school Message Board Forum that's still active?

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Is this the only old school Message Board Forum that's still active?

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Even VGF seems mostly dead now.
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For people who enjoy threaded, meaningful conversations, no.

Trolls and attention-seekers have largely gone elsewhere, but they're ill-suited to fora anyway, so no great loss. Dumpster-fire generators like Twitter and Discord work great for people with very little to say, so let them have it.
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Pretty sure TrekBBS is still active.
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Very active. That board is amazingly busy.
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For everything I said about people moving to 4chan and Reddit, forums like this seem to have gone the way of small town malls or agricultural life in Interstellar.
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Admiral X wrote: Tue Jul 09, 2019 7:02 am Pretty sure TrekBBS is still active.
Proably still hunting witches also...
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Well, Board Game Geek (2000) is as lively as ever, SJG (Descendant of the 1985 vintage Illuminati BBS) forums are doing OK, and though I don't really visit them, Something Awful (1999) and GameFAQs (1995) are doing OK in Alexa rankings.
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Serebii.net is also quite active, with over 100,000 members. But then, Pokemon is a massive cultural phenomenon and Serebii.net has been a source for Pokemon news since the late 1990s. Of course they'd have more members than a niche of a niche reviewer. No disrespect to Chuck, of course, but he is one man reviewing many things instead of one particular subject even if he's most known for Trek/Voyager, thus that gets him less viewers than those more mainstream forums. Besides, Chuck is doing quite well financially. Have you seen his Patreon? He has a lot of small but dedicated fans.
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