What other forums on the Internet are similar to CAF?

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The same type of forum design as CAF, love it
 
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All of the entries prior to the format change in 2017 are already gone, it seems …

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HomeschoolDad said:
I have quipped, almost entirely in jest (I said “almost”), that if my circumstances were different, I’d be pleased to start such a site myself. There could be volunteer moderators, and the only costs, as far as I can see, would be online maintenance fees (server space, tech support, etc.). But my circumstances don’t allow it. If I were a man of great means, in a position to be a financial “angel”, I’d have a mind to contact CAF, say “how much does it take per month to keep this thing going?”, and arrange to provide the funds. However, I am anything but that. I am just a retiree living in humble circumstances.
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Bold man indeed 😀.

But to the question, Reddit does have a forum for Catholics, rCatholicism. It has active moderation. It’s a different tone than CAF but I’ve found it to be somewhat helpful myself. You could always start a subreddit as well to see if your own idea takes.
 
byz12 said:
I am planning to not go to another forum however I’d say Byzcath is good for eastern catholics
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If anyone has trouble joining byzcath, PM me with your username and email, and I’ll forward to moderators there.

I’ve helped a couple that went awry so far.

do understand that in spite of the name, it is Eastern Christian, not only Catholic, and that disrespect to Orthodoxy will get you suspended and banned just as fast as towards Catholics.
 
I am confused. Are Discord and Discourse two different things? Or is somebody writing “Discord” and thinking “Discourse”, or vice versa? (I inadvertently do such things all the time.)

It’s been a busy day. I just want to see a “safe harbor” for all the “de-CAF-feinated” people to find refuge, as we bring this great adventure to a less-than-joyful close.

(Sorry, I’ve had that pun in mind all day, and I just couldn’t hold it in any longer.)
 
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I am confused. Are Discord and Discourse two different things? Or is somebody writing “Discord” and thinking “Discourse”, or vice versa? (I inadvertently do such things all the time.)
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My understanding is that Discord and Discourse are very different things.

My vague impression is that Discord is a location you go to (with sub-groups of communities that set their own membership standards and moderate themselves), whereas Discourse is a sort of forum software that rents itself out to third parties who maintain their own websites?
 
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HomeschoolDad:
I am confused. Are Discord and Discourse two different things? Or is somebody writing “Discord” and thinking “Discourse”, or vice versa? (I inadvertently do such things all the time.)
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My understanding is that Discord and Discourse are very different things.

My vague impression is that Discord is a location you go to (with sub-groups of communities that set their own membership standards and moderate themselves), whereas Discourse is a sort of forum software that rents itself out to third parties who maintain their own websites?
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I don’t know, I am familiar with neither one. Can someone clarify?
 
HomeschoolDad said:
I don’t know, I am familiar with neither one. Can someone clarify?
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"Discord is an American VoIP, instant messaging and digital distribution platform designed for creating communities. Users communicate with voice calls, video calls, text messaging, media and files in private chats or as part of communities called “servers.”

“Discourse is an open source Internet forum and mailing list management software application founded in 2013 by Jeff Atwood, Robin Ward, and Sam Saffron. … The application is written with Ember. js and Ruby on Rails. PostgreSQL serves as its back-end database management system.”

I think Discord either originated with video game communities, or at least was popular with them, because of the ability to use voice chat while people played their games.

But the majority of Discord communities I’ve seen (which are not video game related) are mainly community chat rooms (subdivided however each community chooses), with the ability to also privately chat with individual users.
 
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Yeah, I’m not joining a zombie forum. It’ll last a few months maybe… You gotta have an Admin.
 
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Catholicism forum on Reddit is one alternative.

You can also venture into non-Catholic forums but then you may have some contention and opposition to deal with.
 
fide said:
I used to belong to CCF - Catholic Community Forum - https://www.catholicforum.com/forums/. It is much smaller than CAF, but is / was faithful (was when I was there, I know). I’d recommend trying it, at least…
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My memory is that when the shift in platforms happened here a few years ago, many headed over to CCF. I believe it has a no politics policy also which might appeal to some here.
 
AlbMagno said:
I think this is a better option than the Common Sense one, because at least in this one the Admin doesn’t seem to be inactive.
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The main issue I see with CCF is that it is running vBulletin 4. IIRC, that is the same forum software as old CAF. It is obsolete and unsupported and very vulnerable to hacking.
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Hopefully one of these forums will do the necessary maintenance to take CAF’s place. Also, @Tis_Bearself is working on starting her own Discourse forum, but that is a colossal task. Not just running the forum, but getting the real estate on social media and search engines to make it visible. Starting any website de novo today is very hard. I certainly wish her success, but as we are seeing, the investment necessary will be huge.
 
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fide:
I used to belong to CCF - Catholic Community Forum - https://www.catholicforum.com/forums/. It is much smaller than CAF, but is / was faithful (was when I was there, I know). I’d recommend trying it, at least…
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My memory is that when the shift in platforms happened here a few years ago, many headed over to CCF. I believe it has a no politics policy also which might appeal to some here.
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No politics?

Sorry, that just won’t do. We are headed into a world (at least this country is) in 2021 where any defense of the pro-life cause in the three branches of government hangs on the tenterhooks of possibly a single Senator. The elections in Georgia on January 6 will tell the tale. If the Democrats win control of the Senate, then it will be entirely possible for them to increase the number of judges on the Supreme Court, and thus undo the very reason many of us (myself included) voted for such a horribly flawed man as President.

And I’m sorry, I don’t mean to bash Democrats, but the situation has morphed into one where the Democratic party is, for all intents and purposes, totally pro-choice, and the Republican party — imperfect though it is — is the only thing standing in its way. A Republican-majority Senate can do a massive amount of damage control.

It’s a pretty bad time to close down CAF, if you ask me. I can’t imagine a much worse one.
 
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