What other forums do you know of? [Archive]

vahsi000

06-23-2006, 10:40 AM

Hi everyone, I was wondering what forums everybody else is visiting along with WSP. Also i'll be glad to tell you all the forums i goto if i get the green light from chris. (The websites should be related to developing websites or SEO)

KLB

06-23-2006, 11:08 AM

The list of forums I participate in on a regular basis are:
http://GFXContests.com (one of my forums)
http://SimCityForum.com (my other forum)
http://affiliate-marketing-forums.5staraffiliateprograms.com/
http://www.scienceforums.net/forums/
http://www.envirolink.org/forum/
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ (not as much as I used to)
http://www.namepros.com/

There are probably around a half dozen other forums that I participate in on an infrequent basis (e.g. a few times a year).

vahsi000

06-23-2006, 11:31 AM

is it me or is sitepoint a bit cold new beginners on the internet, it might be because they are so big that they get the same questions over and over again... anyways back to topic.

KLB

06-23-2006, 11:52 AM

Cutter

06-23-2006, 04:43 PM

This is my main website related forum. Sitepoint and digitalpoint I use occasionally.

Blogs have replaced 90% of my foum usage. It makes a lot more sense to follow blogs of the people who are good advice givers on forums than try digging through a lot of useless and repetative forum posts.

Jon is coming out with a new website forum, should be up today or tommorow. It should be interesting to see how that does.

KLB

06-23-2006, 05:02 PM

Anyone from here participate in SearchEngineWatch?

Emancipator

06-24-2006, 03:21 PM

i hate how 90% of forums refuse to be polite to new people. It is why i only come here for webdev discussion. I have a very strict policy of being polite always or you get banned off my boards. I dont understand why when somebody asks a question that has been asked, why they cant just post a link, rathre then put the effort into a tyrade and calling people names. Its truly idiotic. Ok my rant is over :P

Todd W

06-24-2006, 06:37 PM

Sitepoint used to be much more fun than it is now. I think it is a combination of having grown too big and changes made by new management over the past year or so. About this time last year I started to see changes I didn't like in SPF. It is why I only visit it occasionally now.

I think SitePoint became to big and started attracting TONS of new webmasters. NOt saying that's bad but not many 'advanced' topics that's for sure.

deronsizemore

06-24-2006, 08:42 PM

Yeah I don't visit SP very often either anymore. I have a few times last week just to get some CSS help from Paul Obrien over there, cause he's a css wizard, but that's it. Before last week I don't think I had posted in probably 2 months or so. This is my mine participating forum now.

i hate how 90% of forums refuse to be polite to new people. It is why i only come here for webdev discussion. I have a very strict policy of being polite always or you get banned off my boards. I dont understand why when somebody asks a question that has been asked, why they cant just post a link, rathre then put the effort into a tyrade and calling people names. Its truly idiotic. Ok my rant is over :P

Yeah I hate that also. Really pisses me off because I know two years ago I was doing the very same thing on SP. I can almost remember my first post there, it went something like "What is CSS?". I got all kinds of useful replies. If someone does that now...WATCH OUT!

KelliShaver

06-24-2006, 09:19 PM

www.railsforum.com <-- We like new people.

vahsi000

06-25-2006, 09:22 AM

www.railsforum.com <-- We like new people.

Lol, you've posted your forum in the wrong place, this ain't the promotional section of the WSP forums. (some people might even find it offensive considering it as spam)

Cutter

06-25-2006, 09:26 AM

I hardly think posting a forum about rails is spamming

demosfen

06-25-2006, 09:54 AM

WSP, sitepoint, digitalpoint (in that order)
The new breed of sitepoint mods almost p*sses me off. You can express your opinion, cite statute, and someone who doesn't even live in the US will ban you for giving 'illegal advice' without giving further details or having legal background. :rolleyes:
I don't find digitalpoint very addictive for some reason. Good thing, because I can actually spend more time doing something. WSP is the best because you can read all new posts in 5 minutes and go back to work. ;)

KelliShaver

06-25-2006, 11:08 AM

Bah, everyone was posting forums. The original poster was asking for info on other forums. Someone posted that they found a lot of forums didn't like new people. I posted a forum and said that, hey, we like new people.

I think that hardly qualifies as spamming.

Selkirk

06-25-2006, 02:50 PM

Check daily: WSP, SitePoint, Digital Point, ServInt VPS forums (private).

Check on a slow day: Web Hosting Talk, Web Master Talk, The Admin Zone, Webmaster World.

Some specific forum notes...

Sitepoint: upgrade to vB 3.5 already.
Web Master World: a forum about searching should invest in a decent search.
SEO Chat: anything this company does is an instant back or close for me.
PHP Dev Net: a forum I want to visit more, but keeps losing my cookie. phpBB sucks. I never go there.
Website Publishers Forums: had to construct my own bookmark (http://www.websitepublisher.net/forums/search.php?do=getnew).

Emancipator

06-25-2006, 03:35 PM

your right kelli. you were not spamming you were posting which was the point of this thread. This is about the only webdev forum i frequent. I have only encountered one troll on this site and he was such an idiot that it was hard to be upset about it, it was more entertaining then anything :)

Chris

06-25-2006, 04:19 PM

I plan to upgrade to 3.5 soon btw.

vahsi000

06-25-2006, 10:33 PM

Bleys

06-26-2006, 05:33 AM

Not unless your name is FPU, perhaps. ;)

Anyway, forums I visit on a regular basis:

http://gfxcontests.com/ (I co-own this one with KLB)
http://railsforum.com/ (I co-own this one too--yeah, not spamming though :D)
http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/ (I still like it *shrug*)

A couple of private forums with small communities (under 100 people).

Forums I visit on a less regular basis:

Website Publisher...
http://www.namepros.com/
http://www.purephotoshop.net/

A collection of specialized forums for various projects, like http://www.t-shirtforums.com/

And a few political forums... which I mainly lurk at.

KLB

06-26-2006, 11:10 AM

I plan to upgrade to 3.5 soon btw.
You should hold off upgrading until 3.6 is launched. It is in beta right now and should be released in the near future. From what I have seen, 3.6 has some really cool new features.

LeeD

06-26-2006, 03:17 PM

I spend most of my "forum time" on my own forums these days (which are quite a few). :)

But I still drop by here, SitePoint, DigitalPoint, DNForum, WebHostingTalk, and NamePros occassionaly.

Emancipator

06-26-2006, 05:21 PM

I hope it's not me your refering to as a "troll" :bawling:

lol no Vahsi not you :) Sorry if it read that way. I think the regulars know who the one and only troll here was, and you are not it!

fatnewt

06-26-2006, 07:03 PM

I regularly visit:

http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/
http://www.tourette.ca/phpBB2/ (I moderate here.)
http://www.galbadiax.com/forums/ (One of mine)

I also visit a couple of private forums, including one for my Final Fantasy XI linkshell group.

This and sitepoint are the only Web-specific ones I visit with any level of consistency.... not that I'm very consistent.

Cutter

06-26-2006, 11:29 PM

Jon's WickedFire.com is doing great following its Saturday morning launch. Between that and WSP I really have no time to use Sitepoint or Digitalpoint or any other webmaster forum.

Hylo

06-28-2006, 05:49 AM

Jon's WickedFire.com is doing great following its Saturday morning launch. Between that and WSP I really have no time to use Sitepoint or Digitalpoint or any other webmaster forum.

As you said on Wickedfire Cutter, I think it's growing just a bit too quickly to keep track of from a reader's perspective and it's rapidly become another Sitepoint where you'll get lost in the throng if you're just an occasional punter who has other things to do than race to 500 posts to win the contest.

I wasn't around here when this forum was launched but maybe Chris could tell us if he had the same amount of sycophants and disciples swarming around him as Jon does over on wickedfire?

Chris

06-28-2006, 06:03 AM

Hylo

06-28-2006, 06:27 AM

Well I didn't bribe people to come here, but it did grow rather rapidly at first from SitePoint -- though the people were all quality. Basically when I launched it all the best people from SitePoint came and registered.

Even after the recent rush of people over from Sitepoint after your final parting of the ways with them, this forum still maintains it's more homely atmosphere, there isn't the same anonymity overall that Sitepoint now suffers from and I think Wickedfire is encouraging with their contests.

A victory for quality over quantity?

Emancipator

06-28-2006, 06:58 AM

Big sites are not the be all end all. Problem is that people sometimes associate a large site with a good site. This board is the only webdev board I read. Its friendly, and open and you dont get lost in the crowd as they say.

KLB

06-28-2006, 08:37 AM

Well I didn't bribe people to come here, but it did grow rather rapidly at first from SitePoint -- though the people were all quality. Basically when I launched it all the best people from SitePoint came and registered.
When Sitepoint ungraciously gave you the boot, the second best people from Sitepoint finally got around to joining. :brow: Some of us were just slower than others. :p

Mike

06-28-2006, 12:17 PM

Basically when I launched it all the best people from SitePoint came and registered.

Aww thanks :cool:

Emancipator

06-28-2006, 12:39 PM

He was talking about me.. get back in your cage. :P j/k.

Mike

06-28-2006, 12:56 PM

Hehe... just look at the joining dates :banana:

The figures don't lie :thumbs_up

Gee, I love all these new smilies!

vahsi000

06-28-2006, 01:11 PM

Hey Mike (this is a bit off-topic), there seems to be something wrong with your website "You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable. | You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable. | You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable. | You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable. | You must set the "ad_network_ads.txt" file to be writable.". Just out of curiosity, how many hours do you put into it and how old is it?

Mike

06-28-2006, 01:39 PM

Ah that, there's a few problems with that site. I've been waiting for a new design for it for *ages*, so everything will be fixed when I change it over.

How many hours do I put into that? On average in the last year, 0.0000000001 minutes a day :) As I say, I'll put work into that when I get a new design. I'm more bothered about other sites.

Probably about 18 months old, although don't quote me on it.

Cutter

06-28-2006, 09:45 PM

Certainly WickedFire isn't going to stop me from using this board daily. If its going to be a "big board" I'd certainly prefer it over there than any of the alternatives. Its really anoying being on a large forum and having no idea who, for what reason will decide you are doing something wrong.

Giles

06-28-2006, 11:39 PM

I post at in order of activity:
The NZ Forums.net - My co-owned project
Website Publisher
WickedFire - Great for quick answers and I never went to sitepoint. It creeped me out...
Digital point - I occasionally drop in at the buy, sell and trade forum
An IT community forum that I moderate for, I have become unactive and pretty much ditched.

I will post at wickedfire for questions I would like a lot of answers for and stuff that is more mainstream but I stil love the friendly atmosphere of WSP and the fact that I can keep up with all the threads.

vahsi000

07-10-2006, 11:57 AM

Hey chris, do you think you can pull "Dave"s ear and get him to sign up at WSP forums :P like from what I saw at wickedfire, he's writing up some great articles and giving lots of valuable advice.

Giles

07-11-2006, 04:24 PM

Hey chris, do you think you can pull "Dave"s ear and get him to sign up at WSP forums :P like from what I saw at wickedfire, he's writing up some great articles and giving lots of valuable advice.
He's doing it for a competition over there.