I have a slight tendency to over-organize and thus end up with too many forums in the beginning. So, with Hockey D, I went with the radical idea of only one forum. To avoid the depressing look of an almost empty index page, I redirected it to the subforum itself. Good idea? Bad? Have you ever thought of starting a forum with only one subforum? Ad User: Forum © XenAdShare from Surrey Forum
There is nothing wrong with that, I would remove the links in to the forum and home if that's how you want to run it for a while. If the forum serve a purpose, I don't see any reason why one subforum wouldn't work. You can always add more forums later if you wish.
Nah, not for a while. I only manage to get this radical during the start up stage. :p Hopefully, the need will be there sooner rather than later.
Just as long as the two areas for it doesn't get clogged up with other topics that doesn't involve your hockey. I would at least make two sub forums. One for international hockey and the other for local hockey. Good luck with it.
I don't think its a bad idea though. I usually start off with a forum or two, and then branch out more as the users flocked in, and the board gets flooded with many topics. The less forums you have, the better you are in the beginning.
You might want to try putting your forum as Hockey and Ice Hockey board so that you can get everyone's attention. You might even want to put some local team boards up just so that you know that you have heaps of fans. What sort of forum software are you considering @Akela ?
I wouldn't personally just start with just one subforum, I am going to join a community more so if there are a few more boards (variety basically) rather than just one forum. I know a few forums just with 4 sub forums and that is it, and they have a few million posts. I just guess whatever you niche it can help. But that is just me.
I can't remember it off by name, I have been looking for it since I posted last night. It was a 3.8 vBulletin forum.
Is this it?: http://www.quartertothree.com/game-talk/ Just to follow up, the idea seems to be working out. Some of our members have already suggested splitting up the forum, while others argued against the idea because they like seeing all the new content as soon as they login.
