(fallen london stamps by there's a tiny alterhuman forum (for nonhumans, plural folks, fict(ionkin/ives), etc) I've been dawdling around and while my experiences with it have been generally good, there's one thing that drives me up the wall:
the board hosting! it's hosted by proboards, which
- runs ads
- and if it detects that you're running an adblocker, replaces all outgoing links with bullshit tracker ones.
this is, uh, frustrating, when you're trying to make resource masterposts! kindly fuck off with that, proboards? it's not your business if people are looking at trans health resources?
and yeah, I know, they need to recoup the costs of hosting somehow, if it's free you're the product, etc. and I did look at seeing what it would cost to sponsor ad-free browsing on the board, but I'm sore about what feels like rewarding bad behavior and also don't trust them to cut it out with the tracker bullshit. and also, purchasing ad-free time for the board is measured in pageviews, so I don't trust them to not be eaten up really quickly by crawlers or by people just trying to read stuff like normal.
this has not been helpful for my own recurring "I should start a forum" thoughts...