I'm 16. I want to talk about #007FFF blue Goku vs racing green Broly or why Launch disappeared. I join a forum and it's a bunch of 25+ year olds, inside jokes and nobody likes Super. I'm noping tf out. Or even before that, I end up on reddit dbz or reddit whowouldwin. I want to learn about making X item, I can check reddit and hundreds of youtube videos. I want to do anything new, I can use the same user account and find a group on reddit - why bother signing up to a forum? Will I eventually find a reason to sign up to a forum? Maybe, like if I'm struggling to get the answers I'm looking for or if the community isn't active enough, but it's far from the first port of call. I want to make a forum/bulletin board and don't want to download anything - how do I make one? Zetaboards is gone.
Some specific-interest forums definitely do still exist (eg Sherdog MMA forums. Search around based on interests and you sometimes find other active forums), but nowhere near as many can be active as before and that seems like an international thing. I was looking for forums in Portuguese and found several that died several years ago. There was a discussion on a Brazilian anime forum I was on (where most members were 30-40s) and they said kids use whatsapp, discord etc now (the admin didn't care for recruitment anyway. You weren't even allowed to make threads on that forum lol). More people are getting connected to the internet, but a high % of them are on phones. Maybe specific-interest forums will come back eventually.
Anyway, I came to ask if there are blogs on here?
Also, speaking of blogs, where's KP at?