Here are some forums to find Quake discussion outside of social media, for Quake aficionados who like to dig into the culture.
In alphabetical order:
The first two are more focused (or so it seems to me) on Quake development and the last two also discuss gameplay.
Those platforms are almost dead after people moved to Discord servers.
Nowadays all the discussions happen on discords. And there are 3 most known discords related
\- Official Quake discords
\- Map-Center (all 4 Quakes modding going on in there)
\- QMD (Quake Mapping Discord) focused on Q1 alone
The discord groups you mentioned are listed in the sidebar of this subreddit.
Since they are constantly on display in the front page of this subreddit I did not feel the need to point them out.
Discord users might rather use them. But it is also true that many people might be using this subreddit specifically to avoid Discord. In which case they might prefer an HTML forum that doesn't require their phone number. (Discord always decides it needs my phone number and then disables my account when I disagree.)
You mean in "Community Bookmarks"? If yes then I didn't even notice 'em before you mentioned 'em. They're not so eye-catchy to be honest... Anyway in general you're obviously right
You mean in "Community Bookmarks"? IOn my end they are labeled "Discord Links".
Interesting. I do not have these
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