UPDATE: I’ve shuttered the forum for the time being. I don’t really have time to manage it, and I have no idea how to promote it. Oh well. I learned a lot about the admin side of forums though, so I don’t consider it a waste of time.

If anyone is interested, I have a NodeBB instance at https://constructed.world/. For now email is not required to sign up.

NodeBB seems to be a spiritual successor to phpBB that aims to modernize the traditional forum experience while keeping the community atmosphere. It has many features that phpBB lacks, such as user mentions, a more modern user status indicator system, real-time chat, markdown formatting, and of course, it uses ActivityPub.

I think the more permanent discussion format of forums is a better fit for this hobby, personally.

Hopefully advertising another online conlanging/conworlding community isn’t too crass, but I have no idea how else to let people know it’s available.