Online Communities

Dinner Buzz -Restaurants, food, drink: where it's happening.
Foodsora - Rochester, NY restaurants, reviews and locations guide. Only caters towards non-chain local restaurants. You can accrue points for writing reviews which can be redeemed for gift cards, etc.
wny.rochester.freenet Active Usenet group
IKEA for Western New York - A campaign to bring an IKEA store in Western New York region.
Neighborhoods of Rochester, NY - Facebook photography group
http://rachacha.com - Created by RIT students. Has potential, but so far it's underused and dominated by RIT computer engineering students.
http://www.rocviet.com - Rochester Vietnamese Community website
ROCrush - Profiling the most crushable Rochesterians since 2011.
This Good World -A search platform for businesses doing good things in Rochester and beyond.

Old Time Music Group Rochester Rochester Online community for Old Time Music musicians/fans in Upstate NY area - this link will go dead in a few weeks as of 23 Oct 2020.

RC Pirate Forums - Community of major ex-D&C participants discussing a wide range of issues. Hosted by RochesterConservative, but all opinions are welcomed.
Rochester Conservative - Local, state and national commentary from the perspective of the no longer silent majority.

NYFalls.com
NY Firearms - NY statewide blog and forum for firearms enthusiasts. Founded by local Rochester area members.
r/RochesterAnglers - Fishing
Rochester Sports Fan Forums - Active web forums focusing on Rochester sports teams (Amerks, Knighthawks, Raiders, Rattlers, Raging Rhinos, Red Wings, RIT Sports) and their fans.
Rochester Trail Riders Facebook page for those who enjoy horses.
ROClife - Incredibly active local forum for car racing and tuning. Also includes ample quantities of random Rochester area banter.

Digital Entrepreneurship, RIT
RCFUG - Local home of the web programming language ColdFusion; monthly meetings are open to all, and cover not only ColdFusion, but other programming and scripting languages such as HTML, Java, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, and so on.
Linux User Group of Rochester maintains three mailing lists, for announcements, for newbie questions, and for general Linux discussion

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