I like to stick with the same forum software, but I am seriously considering migrating my forum from MyBB to xenforo.
I started a few forums, but my current forum is the only one that is actually having any success, as I wasn't a dedicated owner for my past forums.
Here are the stats for my game development forum. Age: January 22, 2012 Posts: 1144 Threads: 271 Members: 53
I always login to my forum, but I do take breaks(usually no longer then a day). Some days I don't post, but I check my site everyday, and most...
I never buy traffic, I prefer promoting myself, it's hard work, but it is much more rewarding unless you have very deep pockets.
I usually check analytics every morning, and I check awstats about once a month just to compare stats.
We got a few competitors in our niche, one of them has over 4 million posts. It's going to be extremely hard to becoming the #1 forum in my niche,...
I would just be making games, It's the reason I started my forum. I got interested in game development, and I was searching for game development...
My forum is up to around 50 visits a day now, so my hard work seems to be paying off a bit. I have been doing a lot of promoting, and I'm also...
I don't have any test forums, if for any reason I need to test something in the forums. I'll do it the staff boards.
Forum Promotion is a good one, it's popular, and they have a lot of topics to help you with building your forum.
Actually yes, because I can listen to music, and promote and my own pace. It's completely stress free, and when I promote on forums I learn new...
I only get about 10-20 unique visitors a day at the moment, but I've owned sites where I had up to 1,000 unity visitors a day so I'm sure I'll get...
I lost the domain elite-funds.com to a scammer on digitalpoint, I was making about $100 a month with this site, and I sent him the domain before...
Offer incentives for users to join, you can run a contest for a new forum to attract members, do post exchanges, and create topics that will...
I've shut down 1 of my forums in the past, because I lost interest in the niche. It is important to be interested in your niche when creating the...
I hate dark styles for most forums, so I guess style does matter to me. That is probably because I design templates myself, and I'm a perfectionist.
I believe the main reason a forum dies is because the owner is not willing to do the work to make it succeed. Forums are extremely hard to build a...
Yes, but I also look at similar forums for a "cheat sheet" to create topic ideas. I don't copy and paste though, since unique content is key.
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