HOW TO FIND ✨ACTIVE✨ NICHE FORUMS AND RARE DRAMA

1. go to boardreader.com

2. type something into the search box

2a. either put in a current drama like "bud light" or "target pride" (sorry, even AI auto detects that TQ+ drama is most dramatic thing on the internet these days ) or something like "tipping"

2b. You can also try ur hand with just "flamewar" or any random slur, insult, or dramatic phrase like "STOP LYING ABOUT ME" --get creative!

found with the query "stop lying about me"

^{https://debatepolitics.com/threads/w-102-riley-gaines-assaulted-by-trans-activists-at-san-francisco-state-university.508075/page-4}

3. use the cool search options

boardreader is good for finding current drama bc it's default setting is things within 3 months. There's an option for sorting by freshness instead of relevance and you can search by threads instead of posts to find even more stuff

boardreader.com indexes an AMAZING amount of stuff, not only does it know about dozens and dozens of specific hardware, auto, photography, cycling, investment, hiking, (YOU NAME IT!) forums it's got up to date index of lipstick alley, narialand, kiwifarms (when they're clearnet lol), small active forums no one's heard of, resetera, even fricking stormfront & similar sites (the blurbs of EVERY result from them are always <- but if every text was "JEWS!" rotfl )

My favorite thing about board reader is that it finds ACTIVE forums, bc I always hate looking for niche forums and noticing "oh, the last active thread was in 2017, everything since then is just spam "

a few sites I found today in BR results:

This one gets a special mention because it's huge and because

THE FOLLOWING FORUM IS DRAMATIC AF

https://www.city-data.com/forum/index.php

I didn't even know city-data.com had a forum

they're active af... with chuddy headlines, they seem to be obsessed with dramatic type stuff

and they have FREQUENT flamewars and meltdowns but if I summarized even one of them this post would be too long and I would have spent six hours trying to figure it out and then I would quit posting on rdrama bc i would have been assimilated by then ^jk

It's most flamin' flamewars seem to be the religious ones

Some assorted forums:

https://scambaitingforum.com/ - a small but active forum for scambaiting

https://templeoftcap.freeforums.net/ - Chris Hanson fanclub? They cyberstalk predators and enjoy watching predator catching content?

http://www.internationalskeptics.com/forums/ -- athiests and... terfs?

https://www.shroomery.org/ - shrooms. They get into arguments sometimes.

https://www.pprune.org/trending.php - Professional Pilots Rumour Network (sounds cooler than it is, the UFO threads I saw were boring )

https://www.theapricity.com/ - phrenology forum (founded by a furry brony?? 🤨) full of people who say words like "methinks" and "no trolling allowed or ELSE. This is a serious forum, not for lowbrow jokes."

figuring out what was going on with "the aprecity" took a lot out of me so no more screencaps

https://boards.cruisecritic.com/ - catty people talk cruises

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=forums - a few dozen bland leftists talking to eachother every day. The only interesting thing I can say about them, is sometimes use lolcat speak for some reason when discussing kittehs. Maybe we should too. I CAN HAZ CHEEZBURGER? I'd think it was ironic, but what if they never stopped?

https://www.disboards.com/ - there's... thousands of them... they call themselves "DISers". They have meetups. They REALLY like disney. Getting Juggalo vibes but I don't know why.

https://www.godlikeproductions.com/ - world's largest collection of freerange schizos.

https://www.timebomb2000.com/xf/index.php - doomsday doomers dooming. They also write and critique each other's short form fiction, because you can't talk about the end of the world all the time Head janny is online and it says he joined in 1997

https://forum.lowyat.net/ - large Malaysian forum, mostly in English

https://sigforum.com/ - active firearms, has a cool [ENTER] page with epic themed graphics which more websites should have. That's the only reason I'm mentioning it XD ^{they're super active tho}

https://www.lipstickalley.com/ - yall should already know this one, it's gossipy women

https://forum.bodybuilding.com/index.php - u should know this one too, they have had some of the flame wars of all time which have been posted here

https://gossip-rocks-too.proboards.com/ - gossipy women forum but 20 people and new

https://freerepublic.com/tag/*/index - ancient rightoid forum with NO css. Ok, maybe I exaggerated: body { background-color: white }. That's all their css. Honestly, kino, I love how uncluttered it is. Agressive CSS was a mistake. so don't click on my profile Oh yeah, this site has a bunch of rightoid boomers in all the replies.

https://www.susans.org/forums/index.php - Susans's Place - Transgender Resources - "We Stand at the Crossroads of Gender, Balanced on the Sharp Edge of a Knife"

https://www.thecoli.com/ -

https://www.websleuths.com/forums/ - ppl (mostly women) trying to find missing people and eternal discussion of Madeleine McCann & serial killers

https://wildequinesv3.proboards.com/ - incredibly neurodivergent "wild horse" roleplay forum the edgelord black horses with glowing red markings and grimdark backstories is amusing though. They're networked with warrior cats rp forums and all that kinda stuff. Bleh.

https://heirapparent.boards.net/ - a far more serious RP forum. Amazing aesthetics tbh. Sometimes I forget this kind of thing still exists. I'm not gonna look at it any deeper than surface level tho edit: it's AMAB ppl halfway cybering eachother with pictures of sexy women and taking it into DMs ok no more rp forums

http://www.ronpaulforums.com/forum.php - they're still going there was a lot of crying back when "The Daily Paul" forums shut down, so I guess the community moved to here?

https://shaggysasquatch.proboards.com/ - active, but very new forum (less than a month old?!) where 3-4 people talk about bigfoot. THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE!!!

https://scoobyaddicts.proboards.com/ - scooby do fans. Now you know who has "that" mystery machine back tattoo from that meme. They do RP. Sometimes wear scooby fursuits. Well, that one guy does anyway. Maybe he'll cause a cryptid sighting one day, resulting in a shaggysasquatch/scoobyaddicts crossover event. They have reviews of Velma (2023).

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/forums/list.page - moms (and dads🙄) in the urban DC area. They like to talk about European vacations, chronic fatigue, if being rich is worth ur husband, how to deal with ur husband's affairs, and rant about ppl that don't respect trans rights enough. Yes.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/nanny-forum/forums/list.page - nannys & housekeepers in the urban DC area (peasant containment zone)

I'm running out of steam bc I will NEVER stop finding new forums using board reader. It's been hours and now I'm sifting through [groomercord -> free forum] type forums and I don't want to list every roblox & (clean) rp forum that started on groomercord. There's a never ending stream of sports forums and those hardware forums that also discuss politics for some reason.

If anyone has anything cool to add (more forums, information on weird forums) pls share

If there's interest I'll start a ping group for this sort of thing, but I don't know what it should be called

!effortposters

@Cdace, the effortpost has arrived

EDIT:

NEW PING GROUP for posting (non reddit) forums:

!forumposters