Forums websites
Discussion forums, message boards, and bulletin-board-style community sites distinct from broader social or Q&A platforms.
Discussion forums, message boards, and bulletin-board-style community sites distinct from broader social or Q&A platforms.
Forum websites — discussion boards, message boards, and bulletin-board communities distinct from broader social platforms. Continuously updated from public signal sources.
Support & advice
Support forums — peer help, mental health, recovery, and advice communities.
From the editors
Recent dispatches from the forums beat and the wider open web.
- NeighborhoodTreasure EditorsEvery category has one site stuck at #2
Every niche community has a graveyard of failed startups, but it also has a ghost ship that refuses to sink or sail into the harbor.
- NeighborhoodTreasure EditorsWhat 'indie web' actually means in 2026
I spent the morning watching a synthetic voice narrate a slideshow of stolen Reddit comments on a platform that used to be for sharing photos of breakfast.
- NeighborhoodTreasure EditorsPersonal sites are back
The last time I felt truly at home on the internet, the cursor was a tiny, pixelated slice of pizza and the background was a tiled image of a nebula that didn't quite line up at the seams.
Everything in Forums
The full forums index, ranked by sustained traffic.