Forums Dying?

What do you think do you think forums are dying and forum softwares are losing customers ? or its growing personally i feel there dying the only popular forums really now hackforums, thetechgame and ragezone, possibly techsupport forum but not many others?

 

I don't see that. My forums get busier every day -

 

Yes but forum softwares are they dying like xenforo is all over the place, ipb is being hacked its all over the place for them.

 

im not sure I understand this question.

Are you asking if forums are dying or forum software companies?

 

XenForo is very much alive and I'd take a guess sales are really good just now. I read that IP.B forums are being hacked but I've yet to actually find one that has been recently. I'd imagine vBulletin sales are currently rather depressed but that might change if and when vBullletin 5 is fully developed.

I'm not sure what you mean either, all my forums have seen increasing traffic over the last year and in general forums software sales must be quite decent because I see a huge number of new forums appearing every day.

 

I don't think forums are dying. Quite the opposite. I'm not thrilled with the newest "paid private forum" craze, but I do understand why they've come about, and yes, I have joined a couple myself. (And they are worth every penny )

 

Like IB? then they decided to sue xenforo for like no reason at all and lost so there in even more debt.. pretty stupid if you ask me.

 

That's not entirely correct. Internet Brands obviously felt they had reason to sue XenForo. Whether or not those reasons were legitimate, sharp business practice or just a vendetta is very much open to debate. Internet Brands did not lose the case, there was a settlement. As nobody but the two parties concerned know the details of the settlement it is impossible to say who got the best out of that.

To the best of my knowledge, neither Internet Brands or any of their subsidiary companies are in debt. Since nobody but the parties concerned know the details of the court settlement it is impossible to say whether either side incurred costs although I'd speculate that both sides agreed to service their own costs which would be no hardship at all to Internet Brands.

 

It's hard for me to take this thread seriously.

 

Thats why its a discussion i'm asking what do you think is happening with forums its a discussion which i'm trying to create personally i'm saying forum softwares are all over the place so will forums die with that happening?

 

Look around the net there are thousands of dead forums and a lot of the active ones are using paid forum posting. And when they stop the forum is usually dead.

 

My forum is thriving

 

I don't think forums will die, maybe they have slowed down because of all social networks.

This is much easier to post a question to a FB group than registering a forum and post a question there.

People are lazy... LOL

 

I'm pretty sure XenForo is doing okay. A lot of forum owners like it for the fancy interface crap.

IPS fixed any security issues it had. They can't force people to patch or upgrade.

I doubt IB borrows money to be in debt.

 

Can you explain this a bit more in detail please? What paid private form craze are you talking about?

Scott

 

I don't think forum's are dying, but it's harder for new forums to start up for a number of reasons including social media and the fact that a lot of niches' are covered.

In regards to forum software, I dare say they must all be doing enough business as they're still alive and kicking.

 

Forums & forum softwares ARE NOT dying. They are doing very well in fact

 

The forums that are currently dying is because of the lack of participation from their owners to their staff members. Even their users. If you have a good forum, your users won't let it just die down like that.

 

Sure, no problem. Within the past two years, subsets of larger forums have left to form their own smaller private forums and required payment for entry (some even require a personal referral as well). I have seen this in several of the communities that I am involved in (Adbuys, Mobile Marketing, Blackhat anything, Kindle publishing, etc.).