How big do you think you community can really get?

For me, I don't really predicate my communities' growth, I just go with the flow really, but how about you? How big do you think your community can really get? As big as posible or?

 

I would say there is no limit to how a big a forum can get, just might not be as much enjoyable when its very large.

 

Yea I agree, there is no limit. A forum is meant to grow as much as it can. But I dont enjoy very large forums.

 

I don't either, but for anyone with a large forum I am sure they enjoy it, who wouldn't?

 

I have a niche website, my target audience is around 3 million people. If my website ever makes it up to 1k members I will be a happy camper.

P.S. The thing to remember is forums are not the power house they once use to be. Everyone under the sun has a Facebook and thats how a lot of people communicate.

 

Do you guys want to see big? and I mean big? Check out the Gaia forum. Almost 2 billion posts. http://www.gaiaonline.com/forum/index.php

Edit: Check this thread out. Over 12k pages.

 

You are not really on topic here, of course Gaia is big, but this is about, how big you think your own community can get.

 

Ahh, sorry about that. I guess I didn't understand that.

 

As big as possible. Be optimistic right?
But really, just look at how you see your site(theme), the layout, your promotion, and your memberbase ATM and you will see how that impacts it.

 

We're an uncensored community. While most forums or even Facebook seem to add rules... We attempt to keep as little rules as possible and allow our members to express themselves without censorship.

So I would imagine we'd get big. We're still less then 1 year old and have 61,500 post and almost 5,000 topics.

 

Very good stats, thats nice to know.

 

Sounds like great forum success there. How do you advertise?

 

I thought MVC3Forum could get big. I mean, there's a large market for fighting games right now, Shoruken is on xenforo and it's one of the largest fighting game forum I've seen.

There was a huge Street Fighter website that recently "closed." I wish I bought that site before it did. It would have benefitted me since I was thinking of opening a SF x Tekken site.

Even though that CODForums is growing every day, it could have been a lot bigger since... there's over 20 million Call of Duty gamers worldwide. MW3Blog is grabbing 1,000 views per day, so that begs the question: Why isn't it growing fast enough to substain a Call of Duty community?

 

How much advertising do you do to Call of Duty players? Are you advertising on Facebook or through Xbox Live games and such?

 

I don't have the funds to advertise like other corporations do right now. So the only thing I can do is post threads on facebook. I was advertising MW3Blog on PSN [and twitter/facebook], I will begin advertising CODForums on PSN next year when the next COD is revealed. I'm currently in the planning stages for the next game in the series. I just need to watch the rumor mill for COD.

Google+ just launched and I have already begun getting names reserved.

 

My threads usually go straight to Twitter. I haven't set up that method for it to go to Facebook yet though. I don't have too many likes for my community on my Facebook, so would it still benefit me if I did that? Ya, watch the rumor mill for COD and bring the content - in your own words onto your community. I can see Google+ being a good network to leverage your campaigns on as well.

 

You realize that Facebook is more or less a search engine?

 

I really don't think their is a limit. A community can just keep growing and growing.

 

It would depend on user activity and what you define as "big". It could eventually become a public company and sell stock, if it were that big.

 

I would like to see my forum members helping each others in my forum in all section and getting cash price from me.