Lojbanic Forums

Lojbanic Forums

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

Naturally, some of these are more popular than others. If you're looking for a quick answer to a question, or someone to speak to live in Lojban, the Freenode IRC channel continues to be your best bet. If you want a more authoritative answer, or to reach a larger number of people at once, you're probably best off writing to the mailing list. But these days many of the other forums listed below do have significant traffic.

Mailing Lists

Subscribe to the mailing lists with the the lojban.org mailing list interface.

Forum Interface: The Lojban In General Web Forum is a two-way mirror of the main mailing list.

• Lojbanists primarily talk to each other and keep abreast of developments on the Lojban mailing list.
• Beginners can get their questions answered on the Beginner's Mailing List.
• 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.

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 lojban-beginners list
• lojban-es, the Spanish Lojban list
• lojban-fr, the French Lojban list
• jboske, the list for technical discussions of Lojban
• The BPFK announcement list

Voice

• The Lojbanic Phone Group: arrange a voice call (phone or VoIP) with another Lojban speaker at any skill level.
• Mumble: a vocal chatroom

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 or using our web-based IRC client, or the good-looking freenode Web IRC.

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

IRC Logs

public logs of the lojbanic portions of the IRC channel are available.

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.

Microblogging

As microblogging has become more popular among the internets as a whole, it's also started to be noticed in Lojbanistan.

identi.ca

Sometimes known as la .aidentikar. There's a Lojban group called !lojban.

Twitter

Lojbanic posts on Twitter are sometimes tagged #lojban, but it's also fun to search for Lojban without the # to see what random strangers are saying about us!

Other Forums

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 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!

The Lojbanic Interactive Story

The Lojbanic Interactive Story is a web-based story writing forum. The story itself is all in Lojban. Anyone can add to it, please go contribute!

PHP based dedicated forum sites

• lojban.forumer

LiveJournal

There has been a LiveJournal community for Lojban for a long time, though it's often sleepy.

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