What other Pokemon forums do you frequent? Page 2

Started by AChipOffTheOldBrock February 17th, 2021 1:32 AM
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I started out on SPPf and Bulbagarden, then came here. Along the way over the years, I joined with several smaller Pokemon forums. All of those I'm sure disappeared as the Internet grew. The last forum that I joined was Lake Valor, which I know is still around. The only reason why I returned to PC was because I know far more people from here than I do anywhere else (unless they go to other forums).

If it counts, I'm still active on GPX+, but I don't post on the forums that often.

i'm hoping smaller pokemon forums would end up making some sort of return in the future, because i think there's definitely a place for small and cozy forums. they offer a different kind of feeling, i think o:
It's that sense of community that forums provide that people are missing. I see it often brought up on Reddit that people don't know how to enter communities now, or how to make friends. Reddit is far too massive and far too wild for a lot of real connections to come from that site. (It can happen, I'm sure, but there's no easy way to recognize user names. Plus, account creation is way too easy for people to bypass.)

Of course, I think a lot of people aren't willing to put in the work to create a small forum just out of passion for the subject. The Internet is turning into a way where quite a few people do things only as a way to make money, and if a forum isn't worth the money to host it, then people aren't going to keep it up. (And I have seen people [think of] quit[ing] doing what they enjoy doing just because they weren't making money from it. It's a shame to think of what the world is missing because people aren't sharing their work unless it makes a profit.)

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