Is the forum concept dead?

[Cornfed]

I was looking for forums on exercise and fitness and it turns out that there are no forums on the topic of any size or significance on the Internet. Very strange. What has replaced them?

[publicduende]

I was looking for forums on exercise and fitness and it turns out that there are no forums on the topic of any size or significance on the Internet. Very strange. What has replaced them?

I am not up to the minute with social media but, I would guess, Reddit is the closest approximation to an interactive forum there is, right now.

[Cornfed]

Incredibly I can't find even one popular forum dedicated to fitness whereas they used to be common. The few you get in a search are just some idiots trying to sell their crappy products with a barely used forum attached. Very strange.

[Gali]

https://blog.feedspot.com/fitness_forums/

[Cornfed]

https://blog.feedspot.com/fitness_forums/

Obviously I checked out those links and they suck as described.

[Gali]

https://blog.feedspot.com/fitness_forums/

Obviously I checked out those links and they suck as described.

https://www.google.com/search?q=knees%2 ... es%20forum

https://www.youtube.com/c/TheKneesovertoesguy/videos

[Cornfed]

So in terms of fitness discussion, there are no good forums, Discord servers suck, Reddit obviously sucks, Faceberg is out. I suspect it is the same story with most other subjects. Perhaps this is a good thing if you want to sell e-books and such, but does no-one know where non-retarded discussion is taking place?

[WilliamSmith]

Like you mentioned, unfortunately Discord has become the trendy thing replacing forums, in line with the 21st century trend to make everything suck worse than the early '90s dial-up era internet (less useful, less efficient, not search-engine indexed, more irritating and time-consuming, etc).

When it comes to information though:
Quora is a place where tons of contributors do actually post valuable information I hadn't found elsewhere.

I don't have much motivation to post there because it's running a gauntlet of politically correct moderators and SJWs in the userbase who censor or delete a lot of posts, but I have nonetheless learned tons of good things from people all over the world about prospective expat destinations, stuff about renouncing US citizenship, some fitness stuff, some crypto and stock trading stuff, and a fair amount of information about non-lethal weapons there.
There is both an English and Japanese language Quora, and possibly other languages.
You can make an account there as a lurker and follow people or topics without having to pay anything or get involved.