Other forums?

[m.paris]

After MacResource, what is the next best forum for general Mac/Apple information? The ones I had been following seem to have lost their usefulness or have disappeared over the last several months or years.

[OWC Jamie]

I'm not gonna risk being banned for mentioning another tips and deal forum
nosireebob

[max]

Mac political and free speech forums?...

[rjmacs]

The problem with the other "mac forums" is that they aren't nearly as great communities as this one. They are overpopulated with jerks and blowhards. Here we keep our jerky, blowhardy behavior segregated to the other side so as not to destroy this community.

[cbelt3]

Reality ? Forums are pretty much old hat these days. Tweet your concerns with an amusing hashtag, hope it goes viral, and you might get help. Of course 99.99 % will be teenaged abuse.

Reddit can be reasonably useful, but with the teenaged abuse component.

[Acer]

http://forums.macrumors.com/ is still pretty active, if you don't mind searching through a hundred sub-fora and sub-sub-fora to find a place to ask your question.

[hal]

So THAT'S what an active forum looks like... the death spiral of this one is so slow, you hardly notice that subjects only gather 1/4 the number of responses they once did...

[vision63]

hal wrote:
So THAT'S what an active forum looks like... the death spiral of this one is so slow, you hardly notice that subjects only gather 1/4 the number of responses they once did...

OS X and the the collapse of software choices has made troubleshooting Mac stuff relatively moot. Remember when you had to have Conflict Catcher?

I think we've gotten so old that many of us don't really work anymore. So it's not like we're going to be wrangling over Illustrator vs Freehand vs Quark Xpress vs PageMaker vs Indesign vs Ragtime and what the hell we're going to print it all out on. The same people that sweated over splines and gradients and vectors now just wonder when we'll spring for our spiffy new smart watch with the Micky Mouse that taps his foot.

[DinerDave]

You mean there are "other forums?!?!"

Eeeeck!

Who knew?!

Was at DM until I found this one, plan on retiring here.

Love the community here, many regulars, you ask a question, get some good answers with a sprinkling on "wise-acre" replies mixed in. Keeps it light hearted.

Dave

[hal]

vision63 wrote:
[quote=hal]
So THAT'S what an active forum looks like... the death spiral of this one is so slow, you hardly notice that subjects only gather 1/4 the number of responses they once did...

OS X and the the collapse of software choices has made troubleshooting Mac stuff relatively moot. Remember when you had to have Conflict Catcher?

I think we've gotten so old that many of us don't really work anymore. So it's not like we're going to be wrangling over Illustrator vs Freehand vs Quark Xpress vs PageMaker vs Indesign vs Ragtime and what the hell we're going to print it all out on. The same people that sweated over splines and gradients and vectors now just wonder when we'll spring for our spiffy new smart watch with the Micky Mouse that taps his foot.
This group has been much more than a hardware/software troubleshooting forum for me for a long time...