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Re:Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? by 8bitsrule on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @03:26PM (#31924630)
This site says it links to 1700+ forums. Seems to be experienced and fairly-well organized. Recognizes 'niches' up-front.

https://www.findaforum.net/

'Search' is not so helpful at specifics (topics), one size does NOT fit all, the universe is too big ...

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Re:Ask HN: Where have all the forums gone? by citboin on Wednesday June 29, 2022 @05:16PM (#31925830)
Big-boards used to list the biggest forums and I think it would be relatively simple to recreate it using ml and web scraping. Someone more knowledgeable than me probably has a better idea of how to do it:

https://web.archive.org/web/20130517185302/http://rankings.b...

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