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• Link: https://www.unitedbsd.com/

This is a forum regarding the discussion of the various BSD operating systems. It seems to me that they are mostly interested in NetBSD. They are friendly and helpful, and plenty of names from other place are there. The only real downside that the forum requires you to use Javascript and won't work without it. It seems there is some history with other forums too, but I don't know about that much.

• Link: https://wizchan.org/

I have been browsing this place on and off since I was 14, but I am not particularly fond of it. It's basically the sex-obsession of normalfriends, but reversed. Instead of being obsessed with having sex, they are obsessed with not having sex. Some wizard will probably point out, this being only a recent development, and that in some point in time, it was better, but I think this is inherent to the site itself. It's just the theme of the site and you basically get what you asked for when, you make a forum for people, who define themselves by not having sex: a forum defined by people, who define themselves by not having sex.

• Link: http://textboard.org/
• Link2: http://bbs.ax/

This was a true gem. I am too young to have experienced the golden era of /prog/, but having had experienced SchemeBBS was an honor in itself. I loved that place and it was great. It was a very simple textboard written in MIT Scheme, having just enough to talk about programming and computers and barely anything else. There also was /mona/, which was an utterly dead board for otaku and an off-topic board called /sol/. Of course, I see it with rose-tinted glasses now that it's gone, but I think it was, besides the typical spam and shitposting, just a really good place and I enjoyed it.

• Link: https://www.linuxquestions.org/

I used to be quite active on this one, but not anymore these days. It's main focus is obviously being a Linux tech support forum, which it does a fine job at, but for all other things it isn't very well suited (posting “Unix porn” for example or having huge holy wars about Linux distros). Sadly, they use Google spyware scripts and the ominous MITM Cloudflare, which is not a death sentence, but makes the forum considerably worse, in my opinion.

• Link: https://www.lainchan.org/

This is another place, where I am not very knowledgeable about it's history. I know there was an old admin, who killed himself, perhaps this kalyx guy, then there was lainchan.jp, arisuchan was also a thing at some point in time and now the current thing is Lainchan.org administrated by Appleman1234. The place encompasses several boards for various cyberpunk discussion needs, such as /sec/ for computer security, anonymity and privacy, the /λ/ for programming, /tech/ for computers and related stuff in general. There is also /hum/ as a board to talk about your problems humanity. Interestingly there is also /drg/ and /zzz/, which are quite interesting boards to lurk in; for the discussion of psychoactive drugs and consciousness respectively. Lainchan is one of my favorite imageboards and I think it's quite pleasant to browse.

• Link: https://forum.agoraroad.com/index.php

Agora Road is quite an interesting place, however I never came around to post on there, despite having an account on there. Mostly because I feel like a secondary on there, due to the place focusing on Vaporwave and retro computing, while I'm only interested in the discussions on the internet and all things surrounding it. Lurking there sure is fun, but I don't feel qualified to rate this forum.