HFBoards is the place to be

[Mirka the Turka]

reddit sucks

 

[KirkAlbuquerque]

I purposely don't have flairs, and it pisses r/hockey off so much. Even questioning why you need a flair is entertaining. Easiest way to make enemies of everyone there. It's fun.

/r/hockey is the worst. Everyone there is such a little bitch lol

 

[Strangle]

This is the only original online account I have left that hasn’t been banned

This place is wonderful and I love you all!

 

[HanSolo]

This place has its pros and cons but there is genuinely nowhere better for mass community discussion of hockey (20 member discord servers don't count) on the internet. Reddit is filled with karma farming and a system that discourages engagement with a thread after a few hours. Twitter/Facebook/IG comments are where you go to see the true dumbest hockey takes you will ever see.

Everyone is super fake on Reddit because they want their comments to get upvoted rather than downvoted, so they never say what they really feel. Plenty of knowledgeable fans there but everyone finds what works and conforms and sounds the same. When I saw fans of rival teams in the middle of heated playoff series all falling over themselves to be light hearted and make themselves the butt of jokes in order to not get downvoted this really became obvious to me.

Yeah this is what kills my interest in posting about hockey on there the most. /r/GoldenKnights is pretty much the main reason we don't have a big presence on HF Vegas. It's very active but they are a community that embodies "toxic positivity" really well. Criticizing the team in any fashion is a huge no no and they're especially weird about white knighting for Vegas' goalies.

The last straw for me was a game where Logan Thompson let in an objectively bad goal. Muffin of a floater shot that he saw all the way that he could've easily stopped if he'd just lifted his glove hand a little and he just didn't react at all. My comment was "Jesus Thompson, at least make an attempt" or something like that and I ended up getting like fifteen downvotes. They do tend to be more knowledgeable about the sport than the average VGK casual but the toxic positivity became insufferable.

 

[KingsHockey24]

When is the HFboards pool-party meetup?

 

[x Tame Impala]

The only thing I like about r/nhl is it’s easier to see highlights. HF could use a stickied thread for highlights IMO

 

[BB79]

When is the HFboards pool-party meetup?

Tentatively scheduled for Saturday, January 25th 2025 Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska. Bring your swim trunks!

 

[KingsHockey24]

Tentatively scheduled for Saturday, January 25th 2025 Teshekpuk Lake, Alaska. Bring your swim trunks!

Sign me up!

 

[MessierII]

reddit sucks

Only problem with Reddit is it’s such a group think. Presenting an unpopular option gets you downvoted so your content is kind of hidden. It’s not a great system.

 

[CaptBrannigan]

Reddit hockey would rather see their favorite team go 0-82 then have a player who doesn’t fall 100% in line with their various causes of the month. And every topic is dominated by meme phrases, even just as a reader there’s not much substance to be found there.

 

[the valiant effort]

How much is HF worth? Let’s pool our resources and dismiss the corporate overlords that don’t want their Temu ads next to our controversial opinions about forward depth.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

I left reddit and found myself posting here a lot more. The only thing I miss about Reddit these days is I have an Android phone and participating in the Samsung Ultra and Android reddits and just tech reddits in general was pretty cool.

Anyone have any recommendations of tech related (Apple or Android) cool and active places? I remember the Geek forum had an active Android and Apple thread but I went down there and it's mostly just video games.

 

[Coffee]

This is the only original online account I have left that hasn’t been banned

This place is wonderful and I love you all!

Love you more, strangle

 

[Mantis]

Why is Guerzy such a fricken giblet head?

 

[Mione134]

I thought about If tomorrow HFBoards was all of a sudden extremely less active than it was now , like 500 total posts on the main board and team boards combined. It made me incredibly grateful for how vibrant and polarizing this community is, it really is the NHL of online hockey discussion

This place has free expression, countless progressive hockey talk, countless regressive hockey talk , and on game nights I truly can’t think of a better enhancement to the NHL than HFBoards excluding watching it with loved ones.

And it goes on every single day of the year, HFBoards is the place to be!! And if you’re a part of it, you’re a chosen one

Not on the Bruins board!

People are feral on my board.

 

[jellybeans]

As long as you dont post on some teams forums as other teams fan

yah the mods really don't like even if it wasn't trolling they still nail you for trolling quite pathetic.

 

[Recipe Unlimited]

HF is great. There are a couple users that had harassed me in the past who have since been banned, so the mods are doing a great job keeping HF safe.

 

[Mantis]

HF is great. There are a couple users that had harassed me in the past who have since been banned, so the mods are doing a great job keeping HF safe.

Agreed honey.

 

[Salsa Shark]

As a 30-something I totally agree. Old school forums like this are great. Especially for some of my other hobbies like auto maintenance, stickied how-tos are invaluable. some of the forums are no longer hosted and a lot of valuable stuff lost

 

[Osprey]

Is “The Lounge” still over populated with ADHD 16 year olds?? I miss the “Page 2” days

I visited The Lounge a few weeks ago for the first time in 10 years. It's practically dead. Only a few people post there now, primarily in a single thread (the latest edition of the "Useless thread") and with only the latest random meme that they discovered. It's like every Discord channel at 3 in the morning.

 

[SJSharksfan39]

I visited The Lounge a few weeks ago for the first time in 10 years. It's practically dead. Only a few people post there now, primarily in a single thread (the latest edition of the "Useless thread") and with only the latest random meme that they discovered. It's l;ike every Discord channel at 3 in the morning.

Why are you visiting Discord at 3 in the morning, unless you have a graveyard shift?

 

[Mantis]

I visited The Lounge a few weeks ago for the first time in 10 years. It's practically dead. Only a few people post there now, primarily in a single thread (the latest edition of the "Useless thread") and with only the latest random meme that they discovered. It's l;ike every Discord channel at 3 in the morning.

Its just a 40 year old unemployed Taiwanese man spamming Kpop and wrestling

 

[DearDiary]

Message boards need to make a comeback. There's a lot of knowledge that gets lost once one of them shuts down, especially on car forums. Reddit is just not it sometimes.

The bodybuilding.com forum shut down around a month ago. One of the few forums that should have been preserved for its cultural impact

 

[Peasy]

The bodybuilding.com forum shut down around a month ago. One of the few forums that should have been preserved for its cultural impact

Damn fr? Thats sad. I remember visiting the misc section quite a bit forever ago. They had some of the best memes and shit posters.

 

[JetsFan815]

Thought experiment, if I wanted to challenge the bolded, would that be cool or not?

It depends on how you intend to test that- do you want to test with a hockey related hot take like saying "Kucherov sucks, is washed up and overpaid", post that here and on reddit as a test, on reddit within 15 mins it will be downvoted to oblivion, here it will be allowed to stand and you may even get a like or two.

If you intend to challenge that with weird non-hockey relevant stuff like vaccine consipiracy theories then I doubt it would end well.