висеть на форуме

[Francoise Rosset]

Well, this is obviously calqued straight from English coolspeak. Our 
students commonly say "to hang out" or just "hang."
You may feel you need something for the "na" part of "na forume."
  
Some examples on-line :

WITH a preposition
-a chat room where farmers can hang out
-Shaggy and Daphne fans hang out ... The owner/moderator(s) of this 
forum is solely responsible for content posted
-A chat room to hang out, make new friends and meet people from 
Argentina

TWO prepositions (yum, or semantic difference?)
-First though, why on earth would you want to hang around in our chat 
room? Well, it's fun for one thing, most of the regulars hang out 
there
-It seems that the people who actually hang out in that chat room take 
issue with all the anti-idlers hanging around

WITHOUT (less common)
-weird ppl can come an hang chat room [public] created by [...address 
removed -FR...] hey guys if your weird or just darn crazy come and 
hang or chat here!

I think the hang outs have it.
If your translation is more literary and you want to be consistent you 
could say "spend time on."
-FR


On Thu, 14 Apr 2011 07:08:27 -0700
  Psy Ling <psyling at YMAIL.COM> wrote:
> How would you translate the expression висеть на форуме? I so not 
>think "to hang 
> is a correct translation. I mean to be present on Internet forums 
>all the time.
> 
> The context is:
> многие эмигранты висят на русскоязычных форумах.
> 
> Thank you.
> Psy Ling
> 
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Wheaton College
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