U.S General Forums

WoollyRedHat

I have always got the impression that America really isn't into the whole gig of online message boards as us and Britain and all. When you search U.S message boards, you'll have a hard time looking for them.
Is it a case of them using social networking more, or are there indeed a wide variety of U.S forums out there, and I amn't searching properly?

Terry

I know of one, but it's a private forum.
About 6 brits, a few Canadians, a Swede, A Finn and me. Mostly Americans though and mostly American centred topics.

I have found that there are a huge number of special interest forums and forums specific to a particular locality, University etc, but very few "general" foruns like boards.ie

America's too big for such a forum.

WoollyRedHat

While the country itself is obviously too big, surely on a state by state basis.

For example NY ( Granted even still it would be massive)

In any case, I have also experienced that are far more special interest forums there alright.

deco05ie

All English language message boards on the internet are American unless stated otherwise*, they are much more into it then us imho


*this is surely true in at least 90% of cases

jaykay74

deco05ie wrote: »

*this is surely true in at least 90% of cases

46% of stats are made up on the spot. The other 70% are mostly exaggerated.

acontadino

there is one but there full of spas. its called citydata or something but **** that..join toytown germany..much better but still many american immigrants posting.

Ass

Ever heard of a little old forum on a website called SomethingAwful.com?

There are thousands of massive US message boards like this.

giggsy664

boards.us

giggsy664

giggsy664 wrote: »

boards.us

Is that part of Clouds empire?

If not it's a pretty good chinese copy.

Manic Moran

Deleted User wrote: »

I have found that there are a huge number of special interest forums and forums specific to a particular locality, University etc, but very few "general" foruns like boards.ie

America's too big for such a forum.

I think this one about hits it on the head. The 'special interest' fora are frequently the size of Boards.ie if not bigger. AR15.com, for example, set up to support users/owners of just one particular type of rifle, currently has 4,500 users online (as I open up another window), which is a full thousand more than Boards.ie right now, which is arguably the largest board in Ireland and covers most anything.

Large-area fora like Craigslist Bay Area are hard enough to keep track of. Can you imagine a national one?

NTM

Overheal

The only thing I use Craigslist for is to daydream about hiring a local hooker. Cant say I would ever go into what they call a "forum"... its a mess, and runs on the really, really, really old software.

Deleted User wrote: »

Is that part of Clouds empire?

If not it's a pretty good chinese copy.

It is part of boards.ie ltd. but doesn't get any traffic. The only people who really know about it already post here, and from here, boards.us is a hard sell.

utick

topix.com is the biggest one i can think of