Where are the forums?

The forums haven’t gone anywhere — they are right here, from which I quote:

We are going to decommission this discussion area. We are doing it for a few reasons. One, there just isn’t that much activity here and we don’t really use it for much on an official basis. Two, we’d like to start opening up comments on the blog posts. People are very used to that form of interaction. Three, we’d like you to consider writing an occasional blog post for the blog! If you register and ask us, we’ll promote you to a Contributor. You can write blog posts and if we like ‘em, we’ll put them on the blog.

There are tons of great astronomy discussion forums on the web, such as the Bad Astronomy and Universe Today Forum. Feel free to suggest others in the comments. We’d like to bring discussion here at Slacker Astronomy back into the blog, so please don’t be afraid to get discussions going in the comments of blog posts.