I'm travelling to Indoenesia this August and posted a question about
Sulawesi in the Tripadvisor Indonesia forum. There was no response.
Years ago this newsgroup was active and I might have asked here. Then it >effectively died.
The Lonely Planet Thorntree forum was a very good and active forum,
where you could get lots of information, even from very off the beaten
track places. But because of the Covid crisis it was closed.
The Travelfish forums also seem to be getting no traffic. Same for Fodors.
Finally I tried an Internet search for "Indonesia travel forum". There
is practically no active forum left and it's even so that Bing list
multiple times the Tripadvisor Indonesia forum, but this forum is 95-98% >about Bali (practically no traffic in the Sulawesi section).
One more thing, there used to be independent travellers sites. Probably
these still exist, but the search engines primarily deliver in their
search results pages of commercial operators, probably because these are >"SEO-optimised".
On Sat, 9 Jul 2022 10:59:24 +0200, Alfred Molon
<[email protected]> wrote:
I'm travelling to Indoenesia this August and posted a question about
Sulawesi in the Tripadvisor Indonesia forum. There was no response.
Years ago this newsgroup was active and I might have asked here. Then it
effectively died.
The Lonely Planet Thorntree forum was a very good and active forum,
where you could get lots of information, even from very off the beaten
track places. But because of the Covid crisis it was closed.
The Travelfish forums also seem to be getting no traffic. Same for Fodors. >>
Finally I tried an Internet search for "Indonesia travel forum". There
is practically no active forum left and it's even so that Bing list
multiple times the Tripadvisor Indonesia forum, but this forum is 95-98%
about Bali (practically no traffic in the Sulawesi section).
One more thing, there used to be independent travellers sites. Probably
these still exist, but the search engines primarily deliver in their
search results pages of commercial operators, probably because these are
"SEO-optimised".
I find Tripadvisor Forums to be about the best for general travel
discussion. I don't know which section of the Indonesia forum you
posted in and I couldn't see anything from you there. There seem to be
about 20 to 30 post a day in the Indonesia section, so it's still very
much alive there.
Another resource that can be useful is Facebook groups, if you can
find one relevant to the area you're interested in. For example, I
joined the Malta Expats group before I went there and got a lot of
useful answers.
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