This is a massive nostalgia shot in the dark, but I’ve been trying to track down an old RuneScape fan forum I used to frequent around 2007–2008, and I’m hoping someone here remembers it.
Here’s what I remember:
It was hosted on InvisionFree, running Invision Power Board 1.6, but had its own custom .com domain.
The name started with “Rune”. I vaguely remember something like RuneFanForum, RuneFanForums, RuneFanForumz, or something equally cheesy from the mid-2000s internet.
It was a fairly large community, possibly tens of thousands of registered members.
The forum had a predominantly white-and-blue theme.
The header/banner was blue, with a relatively simple logo and what I remember being a faded, blue-tinted screenshot of RuneScape players gathered outside Varrock West Bank, back before the Grand Exchange existed.
It had extensive RuneScape guides, including 1–99 skill training guides and quest walkthroughs, all written as actual forum threads rather than separate website pages.
It was primarily a general RuneScape community, not a clan forum or private server community.
As far as I remember, the forum was the entire website, rather than being attached to a larger fansite.
I’ve already ruled out RuneZone (I actually worked for them back in the day), RuneVillage, and a few other suggestions.
I’ve tried searching Google and the Wayback Machine, but haven’t found anything definitive. At this point, I’m starting to wonder if I’ve completely misremembered the name.
Does anyone remember a forum like this? Even a partial name, old URL, screenshot, or archived link would be incredible.
I’d genuinely love to see what it looked like again after nearly 20 years. It’s one of those random pieces of early RuneScape nostalgia that’s been stuck in my head.
Source: r/2007scape · by /u/Happy_Tie1905