How old is your forum ?

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  1. Benzic

    Benzic Regular Member

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    How old is your most successful forum ? What do you think is the reason it is successful ?
     
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  2. AWS

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    My oldest forum that I still own is 10 years old. The oldest that I used to own and sold is 20 years old and still going strong. I am actually thinking about buying it back from the current owner.
     
  3. Benzic

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    Which niche ?
     
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    Tech and programming.
     
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  5. DriveHosting

    DriveHosting Regular Member

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    About 5 months old now.
     
  6. Sylvain

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    2.5 years old....
     
  7. itommy

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    Nice question!

    Our webmaster forum http://www.webmastersun.com is about 3 years and growing...the reason to make it success is a good design with active members, new members and useful posts daily on the forum.

    It will make your forum always fresh and updated to visitors when viewing it.
     
  8. simplegirl74

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    I ran it for about 10 years and let it go... It was going okay. After four years I am attempting to try again. Not so easy this time around it's been maybe close to 12 months I think?
     
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    My forum is technically only 4 years old next month...However, I consider it a spiritual successor to the forumotion site we made in 2011, so I say it is nearly 5 years old(come this October) :p
     
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    SneakyDave Lurker

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    One of mine is just over 10 years old. My original forum (in various incarnations) is 15 years old, using vBulletin, SMF, Mambo CMS, Joomla, Wordpress, and now XenForo.
     
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    I used to run mine on Vbulletin. I miss it.
     
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    I believe we turn 16 this year?
     
  13. Joe.

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    Mine has been going since 2009.
     
  14. Maxxamillion

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    We are just over 2 years old
     
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    Two months. (newb) :D
     
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    Graphic Balloon is only a couple of months old, but hope we'll be around for years. :D
     
  17. Destroy Repeat

    Destroy Repeat It's time to Destroy Repeat!

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    10 years old.
     
  18. Searchnaija

    Searchnaija Questlot

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    My forum is just two years and its getting traffic and new registered user everyday and its also spam free.
     

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