First Forum :)?

That depends on what you are looking for...my main site that has a forum is Secret City Designs (SCD) http://www.secretcitydesigns.com but my main personal site is still http://www.gblcreations.com

My company is known as GBLCreations, LLC with SCD as a dba under it.

 

Ahh ok. Is Defenxenforo yours also?

 

DefendXenForo is a collaborative effort. I just give it server space and help admin it but there are five of us in the group.

 

Oh ok, yea it makes sense to be a community effort to run it.

 

My first Real forum was Integrity designs. Well first successful forum. Eventually we died, and I joined G101, and Solid Snake Designs. Then they both died, so I left proboards... I don't really use them much anymore..

 

Mine was http://www.veggieboards.com, which I started in December of 2000 and still run. We have 45,000+ registered members and 2.75+ million posts.

 

Wow a decade old forum. Congrats

 

My first taste of forum manangement was a forum called The TV Room with Antarctic on FP. Back in the day, it was SMF 1.0.5.

 

A free Forum called Pokemon Galaxy. It was much better than my current one but it got hacked.

 

Sorry to hear. Hopefully your current site succeeds.

 

I wanna be like your forum when I grow up. Amazing!

 

LOL I just found out I never closed down my first forum.

Here it is
http://cultclassics.forumotion.com/forum

Lol I was a bit whiny then.

 

My first forum was The Rogue Forums (TRF), a general community with a Sci Fi kick. We were online for almost 5 years, until I sold the site earlier this year due to lack of funds (I never place ads on my sites), and decreased activity.

 

mine was blackoutforums.net when i was 13 and it was cool at the time untill i decided to dissapear and the domain expired lol

 

My first forum is my current forum, technically... started out on InvisionFree in January 2005, switched to MyBB (starting fresh) that September and have been up since.

 

Good to know... didnt know you could convert from Invisionfree, they gave backups?

 

Mine was called "Aussie Chat" or some variation of that. It was a ProBoards Forum and I tried designing it!

 

Like many of you guys, Forumotion was my very first host, and the site was Marie 1988. Started the site almost right after I graduated from high school. I figured it made sense to start on a host like Forumotion, because I knew nothing about running a forum and it all looked pretty basic. Well, things were kind of going good, but then the host turned crappy on us and they seemed to think that Friday night was updates night (or so it seemed to me) I had a fair few members get pissed off at me because we had downtime that was not my fault at all, and I eventually ended up leaving Forumotion (I think it was around the same month the site was created) as I was tired of all the crap going on over there. Of course, being fresh out of high school, and not even 20 years old at the time didn't help either. I was at the immature stage for the longest time as I knew nothing about running a forum. In fact, Chatting Time, my current project, is probably the best forum I've ever had. I had Marie 1988 on advanced hosting once before, and we did fairly well, but we barely made it to 70 members. and I don't know how many posts at the time. Now we're with PlutoHosting, at almost 5,000 posts, and we're slowly sneaking our way up to the 90 member mark, and I gotta say I'm very pleased with how far away we've come since August of 2010. It's been a long, hard road and I'm loving every minute of it. I wouldn't trade this in for anything right now.

 

I didn't convert; I just opened up a new forum and started over. We hadn't had many posts at that point anyway, so it wasn't a huge difference. I believe they do let you export/download your data - for fee based on the size of your forum.

 

Ah okay, yea I just thought you merged because of how they give backups.