Right, we never got into the topic of lasers very much here because of some potential safety issues and also the confusing importation laws that vary from one country to another.
Laserpointerforums.com, but it is smaller than BLF, less lively and more difficult to navigate. As a laserpointer-noob I did find useful things there though. I bought a little 10440 battery 490nm Sanwu laser last year based on what I read on LPF, pretty cool thing.
Yeah, lasers scare me because it’s a short walk from basic, mostly safe lasers to “even looking at this laser’s dot on the wall will damage your eyes without protection”
LPF is kinda sketchy in my experience as far as advocating safe use, but I haven’t been active in lasers for several years so maybe they’ve gotten better.