I have spent some time lately at railroad.net and Old Gas, because my roadgeekdom intersects with railroads and Petroliana. Old Gas is less active than here, but compared to Railroad.net it's high velocity! Are there any other transportation related sites that you guys like or discuss things on? I'm thinking of joining RMCA and was wondering if they have a board. Maps seem to be the central focus of my interest.
As far as non-road topics go, I spent a lot of time at Baseball Think Factory and its offshoots. But a lot of the discussions there have lost their freshness. What kept me hanging on there was I knew some of the guys and became IRL friends with them.
Transport-related: FlyerTalk
Non-transport-related: BariatricPal, although it's a) pretty specialized and b) kinda like Groundhog Day in that they keep talking about the same six topics.
I can't escape Bill Murray or Chevy Chase when I talk to you :).
Another aspect of those baseball boards is that their off topic talk tends to wind up in huge threads; either a daily lounge or a monthly/weekly thread about a certain topic. I had to mine through a lot of dross to find good nuggets and it just got too time consuming to do so and maintain a good work/family life.
There is a union between there and roadgeekery. I met Dan Vincent once and he liked reading Joe Posnanski's writing on baseball. And Doug Kerr (where is he?), another guy I met at the same roadmeet a decade ago, posted a topic on Baseball Think Factory.
Road-wise, I read a number of Facebook groups. Plus I still subscribe to the Roadgeek group on Yahoo and I do still read MTR. And I recently joined Highway Divides, although I'm not sure if I'm going to participate there. And I'm a member of BipRoads, which seemingly is permanently defunct.
Other interests include mailing lists for NASCAR racing and University of Kentucky sports, and a few Facebook groups on those topics.
And I'm involved in a few conservative political groups as well, which should surprise absolutely no one.
Honestly, there are only two other sites I visit with even
close to the frequency of this one. That's city-data.com and fivethirtyeight.com.
Other than that, most of my internet activity is the NYSDOT website and traffic data viewer, Google Maps, and mob-rule.com.
I'm not a real "online community" type of person, but had to make at least a temporary exception for this forum.
Quote from: jon daly on July 24, 2018, 10:01:49 AM
And Doug Kerr (where is he?)
I think he's Dougtone on this forum. He's active here and there.
I think I found the Roadgeek Yahoo email group via kurumi.com and got the daily digest version. I didn't care for that format but I thought at the time is cluttered my inbox less. Eventually, I found this place.
Was MTR part of USENET? I missed what baseball statheads called the Golden Age of Usenet during the 90s. I've "only" been online 22 or so years.
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2018, 10:09:07 AM
Road-wise, I read a number of Facebook groups. Plus I still subscribe to the Roadgeek group on Yahoo and I do still read MTR. And I recently joined Highway Divides, although I'm not sure if I'm going to participate there. And I'm a member of BipRoads, which seemingly is permanently defunct.
Last I heard, BipRoads suffered some sort of glitch that shut things down.
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2018, 10:09:07 AMRoad-wise, I read a number of Facebook groups.
Same here. I also read a number of older/classic car groups in FB as well.
Forumwise: I've been on Airliners.net & PHLAirline.com under the same username (PHLBOS).
Given my love for retro video games, I'm also over on Atariage.com
They have a huge Colecovision and Intellivision community over there as well as the Atari consoles, computers, and arcade games. In fact, if it's retro gaming related, and maybe to a limited degree modern gaming related, they have sub forums for just about everything. They also sell new homebrew games for the Atari 2600, 5200, 7800, Jaguar, Lynx, 8-Bit computers, and Intellivision, and Colecovision.
This is the only road related board I participate in. I am on a board or two for my other interests, which include cigars, bourbon and Scotch, the business of sports, TV and radio business, NASCAR and Indy Car, and Marshall sports. I tried some UK boards, but big programs have so many fans there is nothing extra I can contribute and nothing I cannot learn from the general media.
I used to be big on 506Sports, which was the best business of sports and sports broadcasting site I knew of, but the moderator, who is Canadian, lost interest and it was taken over by racists and destroyed with extremist postings.
I do not do political stuff. Most boards I have tried end up taken over by conspiracy theorists, wing-nuts, and other crazies posting fact-free thoughts that are the internet equivalent of yelling "THIS NOT EITHER" really loudly, with a little "every politician I disagree with is a crook" "everybody who disagrees with me is dumb" and "every election my side lost was stolen" tossed in.
Getting ready for retirement and have been looking for some retirement relocation boards, but have found nothing that is not controlled by people trying to sell me something.
I'm fairly active on Jalopnik's reader-based offshoot Oppositelock, and a couple of Honda/Acura forums.
Quote from: SP Cook on July 24, 2018, 12:05:51 PM
I used to be big on 506Sports, which was the best business of sports and sports broadcasting site I knew of, but the moderator, who is Canadian, lost interest and it was taken over by racists and destroyed with extremist postings.
I guess I don't follow. but as for me I've taken a six-month (and counting) break because I got tired of some of the inmates running the asylum with (a couple posters in particular) douchebaggery, know-it-alls, regular speculation-as-fact posts, and people who just have to have the last word at all costs. I haven't seen much indication of me wanting to return anytime soon.
I've become active on some Twitch communities, though I don't game much because my hardware sucks.
Wikipedia (as an editor, not just as a reader) and Steam.
Someone else mentioned fivethirtyeight. I read it too, but I wouldn't call it a community; there's no place to log in.
Quote from: 1 on July 24, 2018, 01:41:58 PM
Someone else mentioned fivethirtyeight. I read it too, but I wouldn't call it a community; there's no place to log in.
That would be me. I wasn't trying to imply that it was a "community", just that it's a site I visit with some frequency.
Quote from: SP Cook on July 24, 2018, 12:05:51 PM
Getting ready for retirement and have been looking for some retirement relocation boards, but have found nothing that is not controlled by people trying to sell me something.
If you like the weather there in the Metro Valley, and that's not a factor in where you might move to, consider moving over my way. The first $33,000 or so of pension income is excluded from state income tax. Plus, you can get UK sports information straight from the sources.
I don't participate in any of the UK sports forums, save one mailing list that has become increasingly dormant as more people migrate to social media and other sources. And even if I did, there's one that I would definitely stay away from, that being Kentucky Sports Radio. I have a multitude of reasons to dislike Matt Jones, and a couple of people I know who've interacted with him professionally tell me I'm not misguided in my feelings about him.
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2018, 03:10:20 PM
If you like the weather there in the Metro Valley, and that's not a factor in where you might move to, consider moving over my way. The first $33,000 or so of pension income is excluded from state income tax.
I love the Lexington - Bluegrass area. Daughter, hopefully, will finish up her PhD at UK sometime next year. Most universities like to "polenate" with their grad students and encourage them to seek employment elsewhere so ideas and ways of doing things get spread around. Would not hurt me if she stayed in central Kentucky.
As I have posted, I'm not a big fan of our governor, but my real guess as to why he got into politics is to do something about our retiree tax system. Leaving out the real basket cases like CA, NY, and NJ, WV has about the most retiree unfriendly tax structure going. The Gov owns both The Greenbrier, near Lewisburg and Glade Springs, near Beckley, neither of which have 5% of their total land developed and could be the seat of 1000s of homes. He has tried to market both as retirement communities, but has had little luck because nobody not from here is going to buy into the confiscatory tax structure.
Quote from: SP Cook on July 24, 2018, 12:05:51 PM
Getting ready for retirement and have been looking for some retirement relocation boards, but have found nothing that is not controlled by people trying to sell me something.
You might want to look at the Early Retirement forum (http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/). The "Life After FIRE" (Financially Independent, Retired Early) section would have a lot of discussion on that topic. The Bogleheads forum also talks a lot about that subject but you'd have to dig around some to find the topics.
Wrestling and fantasy football
SkyscraperCity. The European roadgeek community appears to be there.
You ever visit Football Outsiders? I used to use their player projections when I played FF.
Quote from: webny99 on July 24, 2018, 10:17:40 AM
Honestly, there are only two other sites I visit with even close to the frequency of this one. That's city-data.com and fivethirtyeight.com.
Other than that, most of my internet activity is the NYSDOT website and traffic data viewer, Google Maps, and mob-rule.com.
I'm not a real "online community" type of person, but had to make at least a temporary exception for this forum.
Quote from: jon daly on July 24, 2018, 10:01:49 AM
And Doug Kerr (where is he?)
I think he's Dougtone on this forum. He's active here and there.
I had trouble posting in my own thread.
Fun Fact: Nate Silver at 538 got his start at Baseball Prospectus with a play projection system and other writings. BPro was an offshoot of USENET; the same place that I think MTR came from.
fantasy football and their off-topic stuff.
I use fantasypros for my projections, and only the accurate people, not people like Matthew Berry
Forums:
Mike's Railroad Crossing Forum
Highway Divides
The Siren Board
Other social media:
YouTube
Facebook (many groups there, mostly US/UK railfanning related)
Twitter (where I post most of my politics these days)
Quora (not too active, mostly just read)
DeviantArt (not the most active there either)
I'm also on an image booru for one of the fandoms I'm in.
Quote from: abefroman329 on July 24, 2018, 08:49:26 AM
Transport-related: FlyerTalk
I have an account there too, but I pop in infrequently; everything comes down to the same 4-5 arguments, which gets tiresome fast. There's some helpful folks but understanding the lingo is like learning a new language. I suppose if I was paying for my own airfare, I'd have a lot more to fuss about. I just take my seat and shut up, after all...it averages out to a bunch of 1h 50m flights when it's all said and done.
[/logs in to see what's new]
Forgot about the retiring MD-88s.
Dave Barry's blog.
The Straight Dope Message Board (mostly as a lurker).
No social media. I have a LinkedIn account, which I go into maybe a half-dozen times a year.
Quote from: formulanone on July 24, 2018, 07:34:38 PM
Quote from: abefroman329 on July 24, 2018, 08:49:26 AM
Transport-related: FlyerTalk
I have an account there too, but I pop in infrequently; everything comes down to the same 4-5 arguments, which gets tiresome fast. There's some helpful folks but understanding the lingo is like learning a new language. I suppose if I was paying for my own airfare, I'd have a lot more to fuss about. I just take my seat and shut up, after all...it averages out to a bunch of 1h 50m flights when it's all said and done.
[/logs in to see what's new]
Forgot about the retiring MD-88s.
Yep - and one of the six is "OMG a fat person sat next to me, my life is ruined!" But I've gotten a ton of useful travel-related information there, and have given some useful info to others, so it's worth it in the end.
Roadgeek (yahoo)
Central States (yahoo)
There was a Mid South Yahoogroup, but it's been dormant a while
Oil History (yahoo)
Route 66 (yahoo)
Lincoln Highway (yahoo)
RMCA
4-5 Facebook groups, plus a couple I run
I'm kicking around from time to time, but I tend to lurk the AARoads Forum and participate more frequently on Facebook. Those include road groups like Northeast Roads and West Coast Roads, as well as non-roads groups like Waterfalls of the Northeastern United States, New York State Waterfalls, Hiking New York State and Beyond, Hiking the Adirondacks.
I also participate in Lighthouse Hockey, which is a New York Islanders blog and discussion forum.
My only other roads forum is the low-activity Roadgeek Yahoo group.
My only non-roads forum is the soakersforum.com hot springs group.
I used to write a lot of article stubs for ghosttowns.com.
Really just here and allfordmustangs.com. I was on motorsportforums.com for many,many years but once Indy Car reunited, NASCAR started to go way overboard on the "playoffs" and F1 switched to cars that sound like lawn mowers motorsportfourms became a ghost town.
I was the NASCAR subforum moderator there, and am still a moderator at allfordmustangs (which reminds me I need to check in again over there, its been a while).
Quote from: wanderer2575 on July 24, 2018, 07:51:29 PM
Dave Barry's blog.
The Straight Dope Message Board (mostly as a lurker).
No social media. I have a LinkedIn account, which I go into maybe a half-dozen times a year.
I love The Straight Dope. Also, I'm a huge fan of Dave Barry. I need to read his blog.
This is the only road-related forum I'm on. The only other forum I'm on is City-Data, with the majority of my posts being in the North Carolina subforum since that's where I'm from. I'm on there nearly everyday.
I pop into Reddit once in a blue moon but not often enough to really count.
Is City-Data relatively active? I was looking up info on a possible move closer to work in R.I. a month or two ago and many of the threads looked old.
Quote from: jon daly on July 25, 2018, 11:00:29 AM
Is City-Data relatively active? I was looking up info on a possible move closer to work in R.I. a month or two ago and many of the threads looked old.
I don't know about the Rhode Island subforum specifically since I never paid it any attention, but City-Data in general is very active. Some subforums are just more active than others. Start a new thread on the R.I. subforum and see what happens.
I also am on 506Sports. I avoid the political area like the plague, though.
Also into fantasy sports. Just got into Out of the Park Baseball last week. Friend twisted my arm hard enough to have me join his league. I'm in a few local FB groups discussing local issues. Was also on a couple of music discussion boards but I haven't been there in a while.
I don't do message boards or forums as much like I used to in my 20s, I been posting in them for almost 20 years, and the one I recommend for anyone who can handle politics is CNN's. I posted in forums about astrology, anime and sciences - an odd combination of interests I have. And I hadn't been on the Comedy Central forum in over a decade.
Quote from: gonealookin on July 24, 2018, 03:51:05 PM
Quote from: SP Cook on July 24, 2018, 12:05:51 PM
Getting ready for retirement and have been looking for some retirement relocation boards, but have found nothing that is not controlled by people trying to sell me something.
You might want to look at the Early Retirement forum (http://www.early-retirement.org/forums/). The "Life After FIRE" (Financially Independent, Retired Early) section would have a lot of discussion on that topic. The Bogleheads forum also talks a lot about that subject but you'd have to dig around some to find the topics.
Thank you for this information.
https://gbodyforum.com
Challenger Talk Forum https://www.challengertalk.com/forums
DSLReports.com I probably frequent more than here, but that is because I work in the Telecom industry.
I just liked to read maps as a kid, to the point I used to read the Chicagoland 6 County Map book, routinely, as well as the Late 90s Rand McNally National Map Book, so hence the aaroads interest!
I also have a flyertalk account, but don't check it nearly as often, unless I have some air travel coming up, typically
Thjs is the place where I'm at the most, however I do participate in certain groups on Facebook. I do participate in gaming groups, specifically the Wahooz and TwoPercentSkimm discord servers. I am also a part of the COD zombies community (highest round 115, I have a screenshot on the Xbox to prove).
I want to find a good weather forum to be a part of but I do not know any good ones. I do not count the Portland weather blog that I follow.
LG-TP260
Quote from: jon daly on July 25, 2018, 11:00:29 AM
Is City-Data relatively active? I was looking up info on a possible move closer to work in R.I. a month or two ago and many of the threads looked old.
The City-Data forums are fairly active, but that level of activity is also somewhat dependent on the specific sub-forum in question. For example, within the Pennsylvania section, the Pittsburgh board is considerably
more active than the Philadelphia board, despite Philadelphia's metro area being significantly more populous than Pittsburgh's.
I actually started a thread in the Rhode Island forum once–when I realized how much I disliked living in Florida and started to look at a number of places in the Northeast, including Providence. I got a number of responses, but the quality of them was quite mixed: Some people offered fairly thoughtful and even-handed opinions, while others seemed to have an axe to grind and were tirelessly negative. I even got private messages (unsolicited) from people trying to dissuade me from considering Rhode Island. Many of these naysayers apparently didn't even read my post–suggesting places that didn't fit my checklist at all.
But even when people aren't being blindly negative about an area, you still have to take the responses you get with a degree of skepticism...because the concept of the "ideal home" and the "ideal neighborhood" mean very different things to different people. Some people are avowed suburbanites who can't understand why a person would ever want to live
in a city or use public transportation. Others are urbanites who couldn't imagine living within a block of a dozen trendy restaurants. Some posters are parents in an endless quest for the
best schools (whatever that means) regardless of anything else. Any of the above may not describe you, yet you'll get responses from them.
Facebook, Twitter and Instagram I've participated in for several years each. Facebook was the first.
I am also a 506sports member (since 2007), and I've posted on radio message boards and TVNewsTalk for as long as that. I also post on a board for the College of Charleston sports teams, the university I am an alumni of. I used to post on several others, but I've mostly stopped.
Those boards have gone downhill especially in the last 5 years. You get people frequently who post dumb stuff about pointless information.
Especially on the interest boards, you get trolls often with Asperger's (don't get me wrong, I am an Aspie myself) who are still living with their parents, have nothing to do and post inane stuff. On a radio board I post on, we had a guy who would only post about the old cartoon Sailor Moon and would ask about what particular TV station the show aired in every market around the nation.
On Golden-Road (Price is Right message board), the owner almost folded the site because the producer changed from Bob Barker's producer to a new guy he didn't like.
The sports boards, especially at the smaller schools, still are of use. They often are a main source of information as usually there is only a couple sources of information from these teams.
But at the major schools that usually have several message boards dedicated to them, you get some of the most insane people around. People who sit on the boards all day, spend hundreds of dollars a year to get insider information about their team, and who often write dumb comments.
There was one time I saw somebody blame my school (South Carolina) losing a football game on a cheerleader "dinging her noggin" falling doing a in-game routine, causing a delay in the game.
I also post on City-Data too. It truly depends on the city board. Popular metros such as Raleigh and Charlotte are very popular, while other areas with less vibrant communities on the site are not.
Thanks for the replies. I wasn't aware of some of these places' popularity. For example, when it comes to sports, I'm sort of in a sabermetric bubble. I've never been to 506.
Wikipedia
Facebook
City-Data
Airliners.net
Autism Forums
Anandtech
Styleforum
Flyertalk
CPTDB
I use reddit, but not much posting. I have a facebook and instagram but I don't use it much. I am a member of several other online forums but I'm not active in any of them.
Apart from SkyscraperCity (which I already mentioned) I've recently opened a YouTube channel, but only for the purposes of chatting in the BigRigTravels livestreams. I'm also in Twitter, where I tweet in my mother language.
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2018, 10:09:07 AM
Road-wise, I read a number of Facebook groups. Plus I still subscribe to the Roadgeek group on Yahoo and I do still read MTR.
Does ANYONE still use MTR?
QuoteAnd I'm a member of BipRoads, which seemingly is permanently defunct.
BipRoads was hacked.
Quote from: Sctvhound on July 29, 2018, 10:55:32 PMOn a radio board I post on, we had a guy who would only post about the old cartoon Sailor Moon and would ask about what particular TV station the show aired in every market around the nation.
I used to post on some radio boards a lot, and there was one guy in Wisconsin who wrote to a radio station in Alabama demanding they send him a free t-shirt. When they never sent him a shirt, he threatened to sue the station for $7. He went on and on about this for months.
About 20 years ago, I was just playing around with a search engine and stumbled upon a forum where people were childishly fighting and arguing about gum. It was one of the most hilarious things I ever saw on the Internet. That forum has been replaced by others many times since then, and the exact same people are still arguing about the exact same things 20 years later.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on December 30, 2018, 11:08:59 PM
I use reddit, but not much posting. I have a facebook and instagram but I don't use it much. I am a member of several other online forums but I'm not active in any of them.
Most of what I know about reddit is its more odious subfora, so it's always a pleasant surprise when I find a thread full of people being genuinely helpful and, well, not odious.
Once I was googling info on obtaining cash from ATMs in Colombia, and found a thread on a forum that was really helpful, and it turned out to be a forum for men seeking out mail-order brides.
Quote from: bandit957 on December 31, 2018, 09:58:12 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2018, 10:09:07 AM
Road-wise, I read a number of Facebook groups. Plus I still subscribe to the Roadgeek group on Yahoo and I do still read MTR.
Does ANYONE still use MTR?
QuoteAnd I'm a member of BipRoads, which seemingly is permanently defunct.
BipRoads was hacked.
When I go to MTR, there are sporadic posts but nothing really road related.
None anymore. One forum sucks enough time out of my life, I don't need more.
A local area high school sports forum, an Ohio State fan forum, and my hometown's facebook group
Quote from: bandit957 on December 31, 2018, 09:58:12 AM
Quote from: hbelkins on July 24, 2018, 10:09:07 AM
Road-wise, I read a number of Facebook groups. Plus I still subscribe to the Roadgeek group on Yahoo and I do still read MTR.
Does ANYONE still use MTR?
I still visit it on a daily basis. There may be three or four posts a week.
Usenet in general seems to be dead. The traffic in the alt.binaries.sounds hierarchy has really slacked off. It used to be there would be hundreds of MP3s posted there every day. Now, days will pass between postings of albums.
Usenet was like a late '90s version of Facebook, only 1,000 times as bad.
Quote from: Roadgeekteen on December 30, 2018, 11:08:59 PM
I use reddit, but not much posting. I have a facebook and instagram but I don't use it much. I am a member of several other online forums but I'm not active in any of them.
This is outdated. I use Instagram a ton more now. I use Reddit too sporadically. I am a member of some other forums, with alternatehistory.com being the one I use the most.
Quote from: bandit957 on December 31, 2018, 03:11:57 PM
Usenet was like a late '90s version of Facebook, only 1,000 times as bad.
I don't think so. At least their reason for existence wasn't tracking your every click so they could sell the information.
Online communities:
CloudyNights, an astronomy forum
Omega Forum, about mechanical watches
The user comments sections of the Washington Post
Trek BBS's Star Trek Deep Space 9 forum
the forum for Downton Abbey but it's pretty much dead now. Maybe it'll get busier when the next movie is being made.
Used to be active in Usenet and some BBSs and some communities that worked over email lists. They seem to have trouble staying the right size: big enough that there's something to read, but not so big that it's overwhelming trying to keep up.
Quote from: stridentweasel on May 02, 2021, 10:39:01 AM
Currently:
- MeetFighters (18+ only for understandable reasons, although it's not necessarily that, and it's really the only way I know of to participate in a sport that I never took the chance to try when I was a kid.)
- Instagram, because I like to post selfies of my fugly self
- Facebook because I'm a masochist. Actually, I hate Facebook, but I have a lot of friends and family members who use it, so I occasionally pop in there for that reason. I don't like to give out my real name in most platforms, so if you really want to be my Facebook friend then DM me, but I barely post anything, so I'm not a good Facebook friend.
- Twitter (I list my account as 18+ because some of the stuff I like and/or share there is a bit mature-themed/risque without actually being p0rn). The political content quickly becomes really hard to take, and that's probably all I need to say about that without going into off-topic political views. I have a ton of friends and acquaintances who use it, so it can be fun so long as I can keep myself away from the 24/7 political back-and-forth.
- The online furry community and many of its various websites, if that wasn't already obvious.
Others:
- I tried SkyscraperCity but couldn't really stay interested.
- I've been mildly active on the Sonic Retro Forums, because I've been a Sonic the Hedgehog fan since 1992. But-- I can't quite obsess over Sonic the Hedgehog the same way I can over roads, so I can't really keep up with most of the fans there.
- DeviantArt. When I was trying to draw regularly, I would post there. I haven't been able to stay interested in making art, however, so now my account just kind of sits there.
- I have a YouTube channel where I've posted a few videos from my Cities: Skylines games, and that's it so far. If I ever get back into music, I might post that there, too, but we'll see.
I've used DeviantArt but not recently, I guess we're similar on that front. I still use YouTube, but not for posting anything (already tried my hand at that).
oh god I remember being Sonic trash
But nowadays I am more into other fandoms (more on that in a minute). I had been knee deep into the world of photography as a way to get away from being such. Then it took a friend from school to lure me back into trashiness (this time, the Homestuck fandom)...but then that wore off again. I'm still a cosplayer/occasional photographer, but I just recently managed to let that wear off because of a lack of ideas. I, considering cosplaying again soon, though. Just needed that hiatus that wouldn't have happened for years.
Twitter (and, to an extent, Facebook-I'd hate to lump Instagram into this, but they are now owned by FB) are the root of all evil today (with apologies to Pink Floyd/Roger Waters).
I used to be on A LOT of forums and was a Wikipedia administrator for a couple of years (2006-08), but nowadays the only forms I'm a regular on are this one, VCU Ram Nation (a VCU sports fan forum), and Pentax Forums. I am active on a number of Facebook groups and admin quite a few, including Pacific Typhoon Season (which has about 35,000 active members).
Quote from: jon daly on July 24, 2018, 08:30:13 AM
I have spent some time lately at railroad.net and Old Gas, because my roadgeekdom intersects with railroads and Petroliana. Old Gas is less active than here, but compared to Railroad.net it's high velocity! Are there any other transportation related sites that you guys like or discuss things on? I'm thinking of joining RMCA and was wondering if they have a board. Maps seem to be the central focus of my interest.
As far as non-road topics go, I spent a lot of time at Baseball Think Factory and its offshoots. But a lot of the discussions there have lost their freshness. What kept me hanging on there was I knew some of the guys and became IRL friends with them.
I do not participate in any thing that much.
As for the road, rail, travel, and equivalent Forums, I am currently familiar with only AARoads. I am not against joining and participating in other sites, but I prioritize based on need.
I hate road travelling, such as how the roads are inadequately marked good enough to be seen in low visibility situations such as rain, or how many travelers can be grouchy and pass at shoulders, ... but am amazed at the other times when an entire high way more or less shuts down be cause of endless peoples trying to enter the ramp and other peoples trying to let them enter the highway, but are unable to merge ... so they slow down and even stop. I am also nervous around Numerous Bicycles, especially at night, as they approach me with their lights ... they look as Alien Space Craft. Another alarming moment is when a 4 lane highway traffic included this giant grinding machine which took up both lanes of the highway. The oversized load driver wanted to go fast. Fortunately my exit was near and the exit ramp was free. Perhaps if the highway was 6 lanes instead ??
And so I check often AARoads for Construction Updates, hoping for Road Upgrades.
There are many other topics on AARoads. I occasionally participate in them also.
Another reason why I visit AARoads often is the use of Simple Machines Forum, which does what it needs to do, and nothing annoying.
I will try to mention other sites, but there is not much point to list them, as they are very annoying.
I will try.
There is Fandom:
I like to include all the information. How ever, the Source Editor is needlessly complex.
There is Reddit:
Reddit is silly. I prefer Old Reddit, but I am participating in a criticizing and reviews, but am unable to upload images. ... Imgur is silly. ... So that means I have to use the silly New Reddit. It is annoying and takes too much space. I have to click many times to read what people type. It is also easier and relaxing that people generally do not reply to comments; They simply vote.
There is The Slums Of Elwood.
I was a supporter of Amiga / Amiga OS, MorphOS, and AROS, but I have not participated recently be cause there is little point in participating in Amiga / Amiga OS, MorphOS does not release much desired features such as the ability to use Sleep Mode and Hibernate Mode. ( The complete power off, despite being instant, is not at all in the slightest a good selling point. ) AROS have very mild interest to natively support The ARM Processor, but then there is RISC OS. ... And I have yet to hear from them about approval to create account at RISC OS message boards. How ever, my favourite Operating System is RISC OS. Even with my other Operating Systems such as Windows, I try to make it look as ancient as possible. ... For Example: Installing the Open G.L. Screen Savers including but not limited to 3D Maze.
Many time is spent on You Tube and Daily Motion both watching and uploading videos.
Minimal time is spent on Typical Social Media. ... And if it requires A Smart Phone App, an often very bulky space consuming app also, For Get It. So actually I am not sure how many there are, probably hundreds, or even thousands ... but I do not need them. They are silly.
FlyerTalk
Boardgamegeek
Hammockforums (for hammock camping)
I was very active on Bronco6g.com as someone who had pre-ordered a '21 Bronco, but my other car crapped out more quickly than I thought it would so I had to go another direction
Chris