Other modding/hacking scenes?

Been following this project for years:
SoM Editor: http://somedit.blogspot.com/
The tool was released, but it's still a beta pretty much with some features not yet included: http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/985/
I love Secret of Mana very much and look forward to starting some sort of large hack someday.

This is a great SoM hack still in the works I've been following as well, it focuses on changing much of the actual gameplay mechanics for the much better:
http://acmlm.kafuka.org/board/thread.php?id=8318 or http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.ph...093.0.html

I also used to follow CT Crimson Echoes of course, before I was even into ROM hacking. After they forfeited the project though these guys took it up and renamed it Flames of Eternity: http://metronomeproject.blogspot.com/

I helped work on it actually with them just a bit before getting too tied up with RotDS and decided to leave, but my name is in the credits lol. I wasn't too happy with the project leader as well, basically stealing what was Crimson Echoes and claiming it his, throwing in some dumb dialog and ideas along the way. But yeah, I still play the game and love the project as a whole, but sadly it seems there is no longer any work or attention from the developers going into it.

I'm also really looking forward to this project:
Secret of Evermore 2 - An Alchemist Reborn - http://www.romhacking.net/forum/index.ph...666.0.html

Those are the only other real forums I've followed, I do quite enjoy other hacks but I've not followed them the same way over a forum.