As long as forums are still around, I don’t see them being apart of the next generation of social media. They actually came prior to the birth of social media. That would mean forums would be going backwards. But there are many forums around. www.forumdirectory.com

I’m currently using Ushost247. They’ve been pretty solid for me.

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You can host 18+ websites with them under one of their reseller accounts. Their prices start off at $13.95 a month for reseller.

Xenforo, Nodebb, Discourse or Invision Community. These softwares are the best ones on the market currently. You’ll be able to build a quality community with any of them.

Forums must find new ways to integrate into social media, methods to create content with less time and effort and give members enough benefits for staying within the folds of forums. I used to be active over 15 to 20 forums when I was young, back in 2010 - 2015.

Depends on the type of forums and spaces that you enjoy.

But, there’s actually a directory of them where you can find active forums.

www.forumdirectory.com

Congratulations!

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Hey there! The owner is still seeking content writers. Please contact him directly via the link. He’s the owner of www.roflmao.com

You can dm him on there as well, his name is ROFLMAO. We’d love to have you on the team!

What type of forums do you like? There’s a directory of them if you’d like to find certain niche communities

www.forumdirectory.com

It would cost about $20-40 a month to host a site like that.

You could get a shared server that would be able to power it for quite sometime.

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I don’t. 😂

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You can also block malicious bots via cloudflare. If you need help setting cloudflare up, feel free to message me. There’s a built in firewall(waf) on cf.

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