The phrase "active forums" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to online discussion platforms or communities that are currently engaging users in conversation or debate.
Example: "The website hosts several active forums where users can discuss various topics and share their opinions."
Alternatives: "engaged discussion boards" or "lively discussion groups".
Rockclimbing.com, sandeaters.org for scuba divers and other sites for specific sports have active forums with eager players.
Beesource.com has an extensive list of associations; a bee news blog and active forums on topics from apitherapy and natural beekeeping to product reviews and classifieds.
Topix has topical pages, has strong search by zip code, integrates relatively active forums and visualization.
There are some fairly active forums for technical answers and their administrators seem attentive and helpful.
At any time, anybody can visit the Web site of all the active forums and get in touch with them.
Users, mostly teens and young adults, discuss issues in active forums and participate in multiplayer online role-playing games with avatars they create.
Discussion board page views will be used to identify passive and active forum activities (i.e. reading and posting activities).
"Xeno-canto also has a very active forum where people discuss identification, recording and equipment experience, and solve each other's mystery sounds", said Professor Planqué.
World/Inferno Friendship Society exists almost completely outside the mainstream but has a following that many bands would envy, with devoted fans (they call themselves Infernites) communicating through an active forum on the band's Web site (worldinferno.com).
Some basic modelling programs, such as Google SketchUp and Blender, can be downloaded free.As for online communities, Arduino has an active forum on its website, while MakerBot runs a website called Thingiverse, which lets people share 3D designs.
An active forum on reddit is devoted to the technology, and people there have complained of "burning to the scalp".
