Lojbanic Forums

This page contains a list of various forums in which people discuss Lojban or discuss in Lojban.

Mailing Lists

Lojbanists primarily talk to each other and keep abreast of developments on the Lojban mailing list. You can subscribe using the lojban.org mailing list interface.
Beginners can get their questions answered on the Beginner's Mailing List. The signup page for this is the lojban.org mailing list interface.
le jbocertu cu bau casnu vecu'u la jbosnu
The jboske, or lojbanic science list is for extremely detailed discussions of technical and linguistic issues related to Lojban.

Mailing List Archives

There are locally stored archives of a number of lists, all of which can be signed up for at the lojban.org mailing list interface.

The main Lojban mailing list
The BPFK announcement list
jboske, the list for technical discussions of Lojban
The lojban-beginners list
lojban-es, the Spanish Lojban list
lojban-fr, the French Lojban list
The announcement list (not really used)
jbofongri, the Lojbanic phone group list (not much used; see the Lojbanic Phone Group page)
The lojban storytelling game list (not used)
The print-on-demand committee list (not used)

Voice

The Lojbanic Phone Group: arrange a real phone call (or Internet-based call) with another Lojban speaker at any skill level.

Mumble: a vocal chatroom

Other Forums

Lojban IRC

Lojban IRC provides an informal meeting place for conversing quickly in Lojban. It is beginner-friendly, as well. The IRC channel can be reached by pointing your IRC program at irc.lojban.org.

There is now a web-based IRC client available, or you can use the good-looking mibbit web-client with this link (external link) .

Here is an IRC cheat sheet for people who are still learning Lojban.

IRC Logs

Furthermore, thanks to help from Theodore Reed and Jordan DeLong, there are now public logs of the lojbanic portions of the IRC channel.

Note: the logs are filtered so that they contain only lojbanic text. However, you might still be offended by the things discussed there. If you are, that's your problem, and the LLG explicitly disclaims responsibility for anything said on the IRC channel, including by members or officers of the LLG.

Furthermore, no guarantee is made as to the correctness of the Lojban therein.

The Lojban Lively Room

The island of lojbanistan (external link) on Google's Lively is an interactive space for meeting and speaking to fellow lojbananas.

The Lojban Web Forum

Hosted right here on this website, The Lojban In General Web Forum is also a two-way mirror of the main mailing list.

The Lojban Wiki

The Lojban Wiki (external link) has been the source of a huge amount of Lojbanic activity in the last few years, and is free for everyone to update and contribute to. Please come join us in creating a vast store of Lojbanic information, or just browse around and see what catches your eye.

The Lojban MOO

The Lojban MOO is a type of MUD (a multi-user online text adventure game, sort of) that is fully bilingual in its command set.

jboselkei

jboselkei (external link) is an online game of translation from English to Lojban, featuring rating calculation for users. If you don't know how this or that is translated to Lojban, ask it in jboselkei, and as the game proceeds, expect to see one or even more translations of your 'post' made by jboselkei players, with comments. If you are an experienced lojbanist, you will always find a couple or more challenging 'tough nuts' awaiting your translation and promising rating points. jboselkei first appeared in Beta form in mid March 2006, and was upgraded for appearance and usability in November 2006. Playing in jboselkei is very exciting; you are welcome to join!