Regional Caching Forums

I have been updating this list as I come across other UK caching forums. If you know of any active ones, please let me know and I will update the list.

The list is not for Facebook groups or pages. If anyone thinks it would be of any use to compile a list for, and would like to do the honours, then please go ahead, it is not something I can do not being a FB user.

Thanks.

I bet you don't get shot there - no fun

Groundspeak themselves seem to push FB. There is the option to login with a FB account, which has a much larger button than the text link login button on the geocaching.com front page. The Blorenges, who one them is a reviewer, often suggests in posts on the main geocaching forum to join FB groups (I just want to say that I am not downing the Blorenges for that, I have met them both and they seem really nice friendly people, I think they are more trying direct people to where the caching chatter is at the moment). And groundspeak have done little to keep people on their own forum, ie no cosmetic updates in a long time compared to the main site, and moderate and lock-down any posts that talk about competing games or software. I wonder if Groundspeak have done some kind of financial deal with FB, they are a money making business after all.


I don't have FB. I used to, but not for years. Will not go over all reasons again here.

I have been around a while. I have seen various platforms and social media sites rise and fall. FB is the social media of the moment. Will it last? Internet history isn't on its side. Usenet and forum platforms have been around longer. 'Proboards' which this platform is based on have ploughed a lot of time and money into updating their core software which runs many active forums, they have over 190,000 members on their support forum alone, I don't see them about to give up.

I just hope that other admins who are running caching forums do not pull the plug on them, even if activity drops to absolute zero for a while. Some of them hold such a wealth of easily searchable information that would be very sad to just lose. Even if deathly quite for a period, they will come to life again.

geocaching UK, Geocaching Gloucestershire regularly have good points raised, but so easily lose track, plus there is no chronological history there which is a problem, at least on forums like this you can find what you want, and in what order it should be.

Funny thing, I've promoted before this place and CW on there

And I totally agree, one of my old pastimes saw that the more small communities created, the worse the whole area became!

I much prefer forums over Facebook. It's harder to locate historical stuff on Facebook, or search for topics for starters. I have several geek hobbies and managing them on forums is much easier for me.