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Screw it, we’re doing forums. Forums will never die. Everything else will die. Forums are the closest thing we have to immortality. Forum people will outlast us all. As we come home to ourselves from our collective long fever dream away from forums, there they are, welcoming us in from the cold.
This forum entirely exists to help people find Chinese quartz knockoffs of luxury watches. Look at it. Stare into its center, as if it were an eclipse. The center is a pen forum, of course.
Are you more of an actual watch person? Does that watch happen to be an Omega Speedmaster? Here is the forum that you have requested. You can find my watch in it, in a completely non-cursed way. There it is.
Do you like coffee? (You’re reading text. You might like coffee.) Your palace of Lucida Grande & Verdana awaits you, a weighted blanket of rambly espresso machine reviews and grinder kvetching. The forum has opinions about natty, as we all do.
My personal trainer pals tipped me to the Bodybuilding forums, which are precisely what they say on the tin. Are you over 35, like I am? They have an over-35 forum for your glorious, crumbling body.
Badger & Blade is your only shaving forum. All others are pretenders to the throne. It, too, has a pen forum, because of course multiple forums have separate pen forums.
Do you live in Chicago? You’ll want to after you read LTHforum and experience the only list of restaurants that has ever existed in human history, lovingly crowdsourced by the board’s most active members (example), and proof that my home is the best food city in America.
Forums will outlast Reddit, which is technically a forum in a strictly energetic sense, but profoundly not one in an actual sense.
Forums will outlast Discord, which will probably be bought by Amazon and parted out before the end of the current presidential administration.
Forums have outlasted social media, now that social media has reached its total & definitive conclusion.
Forums will outlast all mailing lists. (Sorry, Justin.) Forums will outlast text. Forums will outlast me, my dog, this house, and everything else that I hold to be precious in the world.
Forums are almost a self-sustaining thing: unlikely to be harmed by trolls, and almost certainly not contingent on the whims of a single individual. They are collectives, unified around topics that are both broad & specific, with user experience that is precisely bad enough to deter the uninterested and precisely good enough to provide value to lurkers. They rest atop codebases that nobody cares enough to touch, let alone break. And they will live forever.