Keeping track of new unofficial Sim Forums being opened

HermioneSims  I welcome the idea of ​​a thread where we can each share links to homepages and forums we can recommend.
It doesn't have to be limited to other forums. (Right now I'm missing other examples)

I'm definitely a fan of Blue Moon, although I'm not particularly dark or occult. I would definitely recommend.
I saw @chicklet453681 has created a forum a few days ago.
I have a general concern that right now we are being split into even more units. It's probably something about my personality that I'll have to work on, because I can't prevent it 🤔

I can see why you describe Sim Creative as a creative forum when you look at the name and its origins.
It has arisen because we were a small group from EA's creative thread who wrote together about our frustrations. However, the idea is not that it should only deal with creative topics.
I have tried to post clues to Sim Creative in several places on EA's site. I will say it often makes me feel like an annoying little garden gnome spreading seeds to people who haven't asked for them 😅

Hi pacer1965 I don't think you talk too much. It's great to have some input and comments. It gives life to the forum 😊

I notice more and more people are finding and joining this forum, which is great. I think there's a core of dedicated players and writers here who will make this particular forum succeed. Once In A Blue Moon forum seems niche, catering for one aspect of SimLit and creative Simming, which is fine. There are also Sim Discord groups catering for specific styles of Sim play such as Sims Of History or Sims Media, which is about making videos using the Sims. This is a new site and it's doing well so far so I have no doubt this will become the main forum for creative Sims. More and more writers are joining but perhaps now we need more representation from the CC and Lookbook side of things.

Cool, thanks for this. Still, while I can divide my attention between here and the EA forum (for now), I'm not sure I can divide my attention further. I like it here.

Thanks you all for commenting.

My main concern about the situation is the risk for fragmentation as well, as mentioned above a few times. Probably I'm of this opinion because I come from a very small Sims community (the one in Italian language), where back in the golden days of forums a ton of flourishing options were available, and now just a handful of sims forum with a number of active users in the order of 5 are struggling to remain open. Forums aren't very popular anymore, and I think that even in the international community (i.e. in the English speaking one) the fraction of simmers who prefers forums isn't large enough to be able to afford to fragment too much over multiple sites.

On the other hand,now that users-made forums like this one are basically needed (given the disaster the new official ones are), I think that the idea of forums focusing on a small topic (like in this forum, which mostly focuses on the creative corner) is a great idea. It's definitively easier to handle for admins and mods (who, in free forums are basically volunteering for the sake of the community. By the way, thanks again for that!), and also makes it easier for users to evaluate if it's the place for them or not. Hanging over different and complementary forums is also quite easy, in particular as long as all the new forums run on the same platform as it seems to be happening now (which means we don't have to learn how to post a reply again each time!)

Above all, now that the general sims forums community is already fragmented among those who try to stick to the official forums, those who left, and those who will move (at least part of) their activity on other custom forums, I think it would be smart to avoid duplicates. Two or more forums aiming to the same audience would mean double work for admins & mods, and possibly a worst users experience (because the activity and users would be split among all the forums). In short, I don't think that would be ideal.


This post was mostly some brain storming on my side, reading it again I'm not sure it's particularly understandable. Anyway, I think I'll keep and post it anyway. I also think I had enough serious thoughts for today, it's time for some funnier stuff. Bye!

Thanks, I added these link to the first post!