Find a Community

Use our search tools to find a community that suits you, entering one of your interests and seeing if we have what you'd be interested in.

Join a Community

Once you've found a community you're interested in, go and participate in it. Read different topics, post your own messages, get involved with other users.

Build a Community

Or if you don't find what you're looking for, set up your own community for free and build it up. Tell your friends about it, find other interested people.

Chatbear is made up of hundreds of user-controlled communities, each containing a number of different messageboards, all covering different topics. Whether you're interested in talking with other fans about the latest episode of your favourite TV show, or getting answers about dog ownership from people with more experience than you - Chatbear is where you'll find it. And if you don't find it, start your own community quickly, easily and free.

A messageboard is simply a way to let users communicate with each other online, without everyone needing to be available at the same time. Each community can contain an unlimited number of these boards. Each board usually covers a single topic, for example in a community dedicated to 60's music you may have a whole board just for people to discuss The Beatles. Within a messageboard you'll find a list of all the topics of dicussion, which you can read and reply to, or you can post a new topic.

For example, let us imagine that fans of The Beatles wished to discuss their interest with each other. One eager fan might post a topic with a subject of "What's your favourite Beatles album?" and some text asking other people to post their feelings and reasoning behind their choice. This would then become a topic that other people can join in with, with their reply being grouped together with all the other messages in that topic. Users can come along at any time of the day or night and see what's new, keep track of the topics they're interested in, or add messageboards they're particularly interested in to their watch list.