Are web forums even still much of a thing in recent years? My own experience in several non-networking realms, where I was active in a number of web-based forums, is that over the past 4 or 5 years facebook groups, both public and private, have siphoned off the bulk of the former discussion traffic of once-thriving web forums, with few exceptions. Talk about a huge downgrade. While facebook's groups allow for virtually unlimited image uploads, the are extremely lacking in features such as threaded discussion and searching. I grudgingly live in a number of facebook groups, including one I admin, but only because all the people I know from usenet, and then later in forums, have migrated to facebook groups. One popular city-based discussion group withered away from hundreds of posts and comments daily to sometimes several days with NO comments at all. Network effect is in full effect.