Did FunnyJunk have a forum? I thought it did but I see no official one anymore.

I was relatively active in a small Age of Mythology community that doesn't exist anymore. I learned a lot about the game and RTS in general and had a good time.

The old GOG forum. Before the website's fan base was hijacked by hipsters and crawled up its own arse.

I miss the old Bioware forums as they had such a wealth of information about the Baldur's Gate games and a very friendly and helpful community to boot.

I miss the old GOG forum from when I joined as it was such a friendly and helpful community.

Underground Gamer, the greatest retro-gaming private tracker of yore. You could find almost anything there, the forums were interesting and the amount of info on their Wiki was incredible.

Fuck copyright and the assholes of the industry.

Never mind, must have been a glitch.

https://www.siegetheday.org is still around. :)

If anything, a traditional forum would help this website a lot. As it stands now, threads and "discussions" pretty much just vanish into the big nothingness. It sure doesn't inspire users to engage with each other.

Anyway, as for forums: GIGA (forum pretty much died with the channel going off-air) and Travian (they never properly made the switch to (or the addition of) mobile in a smartphone-dominated world, so the forum slowly died out, as interest in the game waned). Apart from those, forums where gaming was only secondary: AFF (decreasing interest in forums over time + off-time for over a year killed it), Hongfire (hackers, law enforcement - although it still exists in one form or another).

I used to read the Final Fantasy 8, 9 and 10 boards at GameFAQs a lot in around 2004 but stopped at some point when they changed the forum look.

Little more recently I dropped reddit because of their redesign and other decisions, I suffer from the emptiness that is in place of skyrimmods and teslore now.

I miss the old Total War forums (not Ca`s)... moved on to other things when they went fantasy and never really liked the direction it was going in... More and more fantasy. IO knew some good chaps there and most of the Moderaters were pretty mature and sensible. They knew how to moderate without banning because you said something someone didn`t like the sound of. again things changed... Creative Assembly didn`t want the original fans any more.

And I miss the old original IL2 forums, knew a few good guys there too. But the forums moved, everything changed.

I doubt anyone here knows of these places.

You can`t avoid change... Change, change always happens.

Up to this day I remember (quite popular in polish internet) incredibly interesting Phoenix vortal - more specifically, part about Fallout series (there were also sections about other cRPGs, but I remember the best Fallout section). It was the place where I've learned for the first time about Fallout Bible, as well as about plenty of interesting trivia (from numerous articles)... It was probably one of the most interesting sites about some games/series I've met.

Now, it may sound a bit odd, but I'm missing communities which were made around some "abandonware" sites. It not because there were games to download, but because of those communities - imagine something like "multiple GOGs", but with different type of communities - e.g. in some of them there were plenty of people who started with Amiga or C64, other where people has started in 90 with DOS games, other with the same "time period", but with high preference of action games or platform games... I'm really missing that diversity. Not to mention that if some place was infested by some toxic user(s) or sick atmosphere, you could just go away and find some other place. At this moment - don't have such choice, even if I'm sick by activity of some users here (can't help for it, they're rather active here) or feel alone with my interest/preferences, because there is not too much of places like gog with some "living" activity.

Took the words right out of my mouth.

One man's democracy is another man's empire. Or should I replace MAN with 'person'?

The pre-2007 Wizards of the Coast forums. Not the community itself (it sucked even back then) but the community content WotC killed.

Fanart, card concepts, and other such things, one presumes?