That’s really cool - I recently went to check out one where I used to go but unfortunately the rest of the page is there but no forum anymore.

Yeah I did too, only one or two I keep in touch with now but yep, made real life friends on forums and it was great!

Yep. Happened with bluesky. It was pretty decent and wasn’t getting any troll crap that was rampant on Twitter. Then there was some controversy on Twitter and Blue sky quickly went up in its new members and…yep, it just got all trolly and agro 🙄

Personally I just miss when we had individual sites for a topic like when I was a teenager. Grew up on forums for a certain artist and another different site for specific sports teams, books. Way less likely to get idiots if you actually have to actively find the specific website for an artist you hate.