FWIW, another thing I like about BGG is the image galleries and the fact that they host images (personal gallery per user and categorized galleries per game). It means most images shared in threads don’t require a separate site be working and they continue to be visible/working when visited much later. It also means there is a way to browse/view shared images which is sometimes nice.

I’ve been on BGG so long I forgot you have to ‘buy’ your avatar there with ‘geek gold’ (earned through contributions, tips, site support, and other means). I should be able to fund avatars for quite a few FFG refugees though. If anyone is interested just drop a note to say hi (or whatever) in this thread: https://boardgamegeek.com/thread/2564345/ffg-forums-be-shut-down-12021. I’ll keep any eye out for folks without avatars and tip you some gold for one (well, until I run out).

I’m also partial to the forum format and BGG. Here is the X-Wing forum for those unfamiliar: https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252328/star-wars-x-wing-second-edition/forums/0?pageid=1&sort=recent.

FWIW, I opened a thread over there to see about getting a ‘customization’ forum category added, which would be a place to share repaints, custom asteroids, storage solutions and such. No idea how likely it is but I’d think it would be nice to have for many games.

Images themselves can be assigned a ‘Gallery’ (Game/People/Creative) as well as a ‘category’ (Components/Customized/Play/etc.). I’d suspect that repaints would go in Creative/Customized and that would be an easy way to find such pictures. And as noted above, the pictures themselves can have comments/discussion on them. That said, yeah, there doesn’t seem to be great forum category for repaints which is unfortunate. I agree that ‘variants’ could work though I think that is meant for rules variants generally. I guess that means putting them in general but really would be nice to have their own category. Maybe a ‘Customization’ category. I can ask is that can be added. There is also not really a good category for Squad Lists or Squad Builder discussion, outside of being lumped in to general. Are these show stoppers? Again, I’m not really familiar with what reddit and discord may offer in this regard but I’ve found BGG great for game discussions and sharing over the years.

Hi, mostly a lurker here but I’ve enjoyed this community for several years. With this forum going down, does BoardGameGeek make sense as a place to migrate to? There is a dedicated X-Wing 2.0 forum there divided up into rules/variants/news/etc. sub forums: https://www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/252328/star-wars-x-wing-second-edition/forums/0. I think the site also supports adding a wiki page coupled to a game, which could hold ‘important links’ type information. Sorry if the answer is obvious. I have never really explored Reddit and discord, maybe I should, but from my little exposure they don’t seem appealing. And I do know I don’t like Facebook as an alternative forum location. So just thought I’d plug BGG since I’m familiar with that one and haven’t heard it brought up much.