Malati di Snowboard

Malati di Snowboard (full name Malati di Snowboard Gruppo Ufficiale) is the largest snowboard discussion group in Italy, and the one where people post the most.

It’s a public group: posts and the member list are visible to anyone, but you have to join to post. It has been around since 2017 and has about thirty-three thousand members, with a steady team of admins and moderators.

Why It Works

The rules ask people to be kind and ban advertising, spam, and commercial posts from shops and associations. That’s why the discussion stays readable instead of drowning in ads, which is far from a given in Italian snowboard groups.

You’ll find what you’d expect from a general group: gear questions, resort conditions, photos, and people who live near each other setting up days on the mountain together.

The Linked Page

Besides the group there’s a Facebook page with a few thousand followers. They use it to run webinars and camps, and they also post from it into the group.

Don’t mix up the two numbers: the group is much bigger than the page. The domain listed on the page, malatidisnowboard.it, isn’t live: everything goes through Facebook.