I’m very pleased to announce to you that Acidflask will be returning to the Singapore blogosphere. Acidflask won’t be running
a new blog, but he will take part in the running of a brand new forums
site set up exclusively for this blog.

You might ask, since there is already a blog, why have a forum as well? These forums aim to complement the current blog. Blogs are great for discussing current events, things like reviewing a restaurant you went to recently, or talking about what’s on today’s newspapers, or the latest scandal du jour. But it’s hard to maintain a coherent discussion across blogs, even when using trackbacks, comments, or even old-fashioned manual linking. Forums look like a good solution to this, where conversations can be sustained over the course of weeks or even months while still being fresh. Forum posts also tend to be shorter, and hopefully this removes some of the barriers of carrying out a discussion.

As you might expect, this won’t be the next Hardwarezone or Sammyboy. It doesn’t aim to be that. These new fora aim to a great place to go to discuss medium-to-long term Singapore issues. But it won’t happen without your support. And that’s why I am inviting you to come in and share your views with other like-minded Singaporeans.

The forums are hosted at:

http://diodati.omniscientx.com/forum

Acidflask has posted some new threads in the hopes of getting some discussions going and I hope that you will be able to lend your
support there.

If you already have a registered user account on my blog at e pur si muove, you will probably be pleased to know that the same account will also work on the forums.

There are currently four fora available:

  1. deals with current local events and aims to be a more casual setting for discussing the latest happenings.
  2. is specifically aimed at discussing letters published to the ST Forum, TODAY’s readers’ column, and the like. Rejected letters and Open letters are also welcomed here.
  3. deals with long-term discussions of the big issue facing Singapore. What are the major problems? and How should we go about fixing them? are the kinds of questions we want to discuss here.
  4. is a place to recommend (plug) or look for other websites dealing with Singapore issues.

Again, if you have any suggestions for topics, or if you would like to suggest a new forum, please feel free to contact me. Once again, the forums are now open to you, my valued readers and subscribers, and any friends that you may choose to inform. Acidflask looks forward to seeing many of you on the forum pages!

Subscribe by RSS to the forums if you like.