After blogging about the Bulletin letter forum yesterday, I wondered about how many other online forums/bulletin boards there are out there dedicated to Bend. There's a few I know about, and others I've dug up via search; I don't know offhand how active any of these are (other than if they've obviously been updated recently), but I figured I'd list what I found.

(I'm not even counting blogs or other similar sites where people can simply leave comments; I'm just looking at sites that offer threaded conversations.)

• Bend Forums - General forums
• Bend Economy Bulletin Board - bulletin board with topics along the lines of the "bubble bloggers"
• BendBulletinBoard.net - which I covered yesterday
• Bend Weekly Community Forums - hosted by the Bend Weekly news(paper) site
• OregonLive.com Bend Forum - The Oregonian's website (they host quite a number of forums)
• Topix Bend Forum - forums/message boards hosted by news site Topix
• TripAdvisor Bend Forum - strangely enough, a forum hosted by the travel site
• craigslist forums - by default part of the entire craigslist forum portfolio, but you can filter by Bend only

Those are the ones I can definitively point to, though I'm sure there are more. But there's a whole other class of sites that are similar to forums but aren't quite: "Groups" from the portal/search sites like Google, Yahoo, MSN; social networking groups/directories on sites like MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn; or "middle tier" sites (or private ones) that have forums embedded in them. Perhaps at some point I'll create a list of all those that I find.

Are there other forums for Bend that anyone wants to contribute?