Just for fun, I thought I’d make a topics for listing other community/social sites/forums/online networks that we frequently visit and post at.
Here goes my list. I lurk at most of these, only posting very occasionally.
Westeros (asoiaf.westeros.org). A site dedicated to the A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels series. I’m more of lurker here, but some of topics are quite interesting and in depth (lots of theories and well thought out arguments etc) if you’re a fan of this series.
Facebook (facebook.com). I don’t really like social networks that don’t have a theme to them, but I must admit that it’s handy having a central place to keep track of what people I know have been up to, especially if I don’t talk to them on a regular basis. So I’ve tried to stick to one, and Facebook seems to have the best user interface and the most people I know on it. I ignore most of the application notifications as most of them aren’t particularly useful, although it is a neat idea and there’s a lot of data there that could potentially be utilized for something useful.
Shining Force Central (forums.shiningforcecentral.com). I don’t post very often here, but it’s certainly the most in depth site and biggest community for anything related to the Shining Force games.
Boagworld (boagworld.com/forum). A site for web site developers and owners, with a great community forum for either getting help or just posting about creating and running websites. It goes alongside a regular podcast from the site’s owners.
Digg (digg.com). A social news site where all the news articles are submitted by the users and voted up and down so the articles with the most votes show up on the front page. I mainly browse this site because of the sheer number of articles that are posted on a wide variety of subjects (although focusing mainly on computing, tech, and gaming). I used to browse this site most days via the RSS feed, but I’ve cut back to just checking it occasionally because it tends to take up a lot of time. The comments section is a mixed experienced, although there are worthwhile comments if you don’t mind wading through a bunch of not so constructive comments.