any other foreigner driven discussion forums for Taiwan out there?
Facebook groups
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The sub-Reddit is⌠okay in a pinch. Thereâs a few too many woke zoomers who love their Taipei 101 pics and just gush about how Taiwan is the best place in the world even though theyâve only been here all of 2 months⌠but some normal people at least. I know from similar usernames at least a few forumosa posters lurk there.
Usually some discussion generated in Facebook groups, but sometimes people there are itching for a verbal confrontation for whatever reason and you have to just ignore the crazies.
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Whatever you do, donât use Quora. Itâs a cesspool.
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Thereâs a discord server named Taiwan. Worth a look. Seems like a pretty helpful community.
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The reddit group became unbearable during covid. It was nice to see Formosa had a more balanced view.
The reddit group seems to have gone back to its usual daily photos of taipei 101 with the occasional interesting news story and discussion.
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Reddit is awesome but the Taiwan subreddit is full of tards.
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I stopped going there to post but I occasionally lurk once every few months. Too much political discussion so I usually dont bother
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r/Taipei
I looked through the last few months.
Lots of answers to questions are partially or totally clueless even by people that appear to have lived in Taiwan for a while or maybe are Taiwanese and lived here their whole life.
And lots of questions are missing a/the real solution even though lots of replies.
I was going to start trying to reply with some helpful answers but I just gave up.
Could not find a thread for Kaohsiung and only a very quiet one for Taichung.
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Hmmn⌠itâs certainly a mystery. 
In all seriousness, go to r/taiwan
(Or r/kaohsiung as @Marco suggested⌠but r/taiwan is much more active)
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So very similar to Forumosa then!
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r/taiwan is terrible. Most of the posters on there do not live here. Just little boys trying to garner knowledge to impress their Taiwanese partners maybe? Weird demographic. Very predictable politics, freedom fighters for Taiwan numba 1 on every issue. If you so much as even criticise the weather, you are a wumao that deserves to be put to death.
Ultimately the techbros behind Reddit have their dumb voting system to blame for all of these echo chamber subreddits.
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A lot of âastroturfingâ on Reddits that have any political slant along with tons of bots. I check in every so often and itâs the same thing.
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I second this opinion. OMG how I was Twitter-mobbed for spelling Kaohsiung âGaoxiongâ in a post! It led to a nasty-ass flame-thread where one contributor even called my daughter a âretardâ, and when I asked the mod (of r/Taipei) to step in or at least give me some guidance, he did literally nothing.
Meanwhile I spend hours finding info about local and international concerts and posting there to hopefully support the local music scene - do I ever get any upvotes for it? The opposite. Those supposed Taiwan-lovers downvote me for spending time trying to help bands and fans for no benefit whatsoever.
Meanwhile someone posts a photo of a Taiwanese cat or something and it gets 200 upvotes.
I seriously cannot imagine what the fuck is the problem with people there.
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Same exact thing happened to me! I had no idea it was a controversial thing to spell a place name differently, even though you can get multiple spellings of one place even on official road signs in Taiwan.
Anyway you know thereâs something wrong when you get people actually defending Taiwanâs shitty driving culture. Its not everyone on there, but its not a small amount of people either.
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Jeezus that is beyond my imaginative limits. 
Guy
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Most subreddits from Asia are filled with idiots, ask a question and itâs downvoted but a picture of a cat and you can karma farm. Reddit is mostly a cesspool these days of echo chambers, but thatâs what a voting system like that encourages.
A certain Japan subreddit users actively gatekeep. Taiwanâs hasnât got that bad yet.
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I mean, isnât that how the Peking regime spells it? Seems like an odd choice.
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