Yeah my dad and I used to frequent a fishing forum for coastal fishing, as we didn’t live on the coast but would make a trip once or twice a year so we wanted to keep up with what was hot and just tips and stuff.

There was so much good stuff on there, but there was always underlying factions with a lot of the big posters and gatekeeping/bickering. Fortunately having nowhere else to go kind of kept everyone together. As soon as Groups came around a bunch of the main posters took their little factions to Facebook and the forum basically died instantly.