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I wouldn't say all old software are built the same. Yeah some of them are a bit outdated looking outside the box like UBB Threads or FudForum but I think only old specific forums are using these platforms. Not all free forum software looks old. UBB Threads isn't even a free software either, which is kind of depressing to see them charging so much for a platform that feels outdated. Still either way I really like the points brought up in this thread and it's true! No one wants to join an empty community or one that doesn't outright have a clear direction.

Will you be sharing it here with us? I'm curious to see what your new project is about.

I'm not really brand loyal as much as I used to be. I used to only get HP computers but my main one is a Asus Nitro. I have an Android but it's not a Samsung, it's a Motorola.

Appreciate it! Trying something similar to build community, but not a forum!

Its still available

I've always struggled to make forum credits worth something, I've done it to buy a few items but nothing worthwhile.

I would make sure to keep the ads tame and respectful, some sites just make it get up in your face.

I also couldn't image f we were still stuck with dial up internet instead of having high speed internet now. I like that smartphones are like mini computers now as well. The flip phones era was cool and all, but having a smartphone makes things so much easier.

I think users that don't prefer text based content are apart of the new generation(17-26), however if we implement more video format content in our regular topics, it's possible to attract them as well. Video content is the answer to attracting the newer generation. Especially once its implemented in our text based content. The newer generation loves Tiktok and Youtube, so one way that could attract them to forums is by launching videos that cater to them. Videos can also help each a wider audience and more visibility as well, especially since Tiktok is basically its own search engine. Users use it to find information and discuss various topics. The same applies for Youtube and videos enabling us to rank higher on the search engines too. Google indexes and ranks videos on their search. They also have a seperate tab just for videos, so this market is one avenue that we all could explore. If we go where the users are at, it's very possible to drive them to forums. A lot of people discuss forums on social media, but yet, there isn't a lot of activity discussing forums or where to find them. It's easy to find them on social media as well, as long as you search "Forums" on any particular social media site. Which, discussing them with those users can enable us to grow at the same time. Especially since social media posts also rank on the search engines, so it's quite a valuable way to attract new members on the global scale. You'll never know who you may come across one of your posts and decide to join.

i’ll take the first spot

Earlier today while I was explaining my new forum to a co-worker (who's today is his last day though), he seemed interested. I spouted off my website and thought, that's really long. Maybe I should make some business cards for when I'm out in the wild?

I had a look at Gex Forums in Google Search Console and yeah looks the same for me. :S [ATTACH type=full" size="174x125]1642[/ATTACH]

I wouldn't have the patience for it either, but it's pretty cool to see others growing bonsai trees! I look forward to seeing that sapling grow!

I haven't had the chance to promote my websites in real life anywhere. I thought about maybe getting some bumper stickers made, I did bring up the fact to a few coworkers that I own a few websites. I never mentioned the name of them though. I did manage to get some members on Gex Forums via r/gex. I think it's a good idea to interact with a few groups or subreddits and ask when the time is right if you can promote your forum.

I'll tag the second spot!

I’ll take the first spot.

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No way I would have the patience for that - but I do admire what others have done!

I had an epiphany in the shower this morning. For five years I've been trying to create the same forum experience I had back in the early 2000s. Back then it was so easy to run a forum! You'd just slap one up on the Internet, and the people would find your forum, register, and post. It was a happy place. Sure, the more successful forums had a vision, maybe even an official mission statement, but even me with a loose concept of being a fan shrine to an anime character was good enough to have regularly participating members within a community. Fast forward to 2020. I tried again. I had the passion. Anime + Role Playing, means that I'm not trapped within a specific fandom, which in reality is only temporary anyway. I wanted to have room to grow, to explore and try new things that I'd fall in love with. Because that's what happened with my first site. I had a really strong affection for a character in a specific anime, a television show that happened to be, not main stream popular, but popular enough within the subculture of the Otaku (anime fans). But as the years passed, I was pointed to other anime, specifically shoujo (girls anime featuring heroines) that really got me excited. But I re-branding is never an easy option. Anyway, so this new site, was left totally open, and would feature all the anime and role playing games that I'd experienced. It would be a place for people to come together to discuss these things-- we'd share similar interested, and bond and form friendships , and junk. Right? After five years of struggling with hardly any member growth, and a dead community with a bloated, ancient looking website, I had reached that crisis point. It's time to rebrand. I thought long and hard about what makes me tick. Yes, I do enjoy anime and role playing, but what I had wasn't working, it was too unfocused. And therefore, it was difficult to create an identity, which is necessary for marketing and finding other like-minded people. Something that a forum desperately needs-- like oxygen for us human beings. After all, a dead forum mind as well be a blog or maybe a static webpage. It took watching an anime for things to finally click for me. I'm obsessed with genre of magical girls. Pretty cute and vivid heroines, coming of age stories, awesome abilities and powers, and enough tense drama to occupy even my level of chaos seeking boredom. Thus, Prismatica was born. A magical girl's role playing paradise. Here is a space where I can focus on the genre of magical girls within an anime sphere, and host a dedicated role playing game as part of the site's identity. Having recently stumbled onto the concept of dedicated forum role playing spaces, this structure allows me to create parallel concurrently running settings for role playing to take place. This solves the problem that is so frequently observed with Play by Post role playing. If a player goes missing for a substantial period of time, the game stops and ultimately dies. And defining the site as a genre specific topic point, rather than a specific media title point, will give me room to experiment and expand, and if need be, start other games-- because I do have a passion for creative writing. Prismatica gives me that identity and branding potential that I was missing from my previous forum. Now it's much easier to write advertisements and to find other like-minded people. I have a classic color palette to work with, font styling, naming conventions, all of which help to put together a polished and coherent object for presentation. This solves the fundamental problem I had-- an identity crisis. But that's only half of the equation. Now I need to actually find other people! And for that, I have a strategy as well. People initially judge something based on looks. And while I was comfortable and familiar with SMF as a forum platform, it was lacking a lot of the little things that I was simply adoring while using other sites' platforms. I was also concerned with how little development seemed to be happening with the software, and looking at the selection of themes available, only a couple had recently popped out to me. So, I did what any aspiring forum admin would do. I went joy riding! I quietly tried out several other forum platforms, and made a list of features that I wanted, placing emphasis on the writing experience. With each forum I tried, I was eventually lead back to XenForo, but that price tag was a hard pill to swallow for somebody who had experienced the joy of running a forum on the free-side. With my vacation around the corner, I made my decision. I was going to build, build, build and have fun doing it while relaxing not at work! I applied for a credit card, and got approved for $300. Just enough to get me started. Yeah, I know, putting a hobby on credit is a bad idea, but I have a plan for that too. So all this previous week, I fell in love with the XenForo software. I managed to get the add-ons that would help make a role player's experience next level better, while keeping the site fun, yet not completely wacky. Phase One, complete. But what about this epiphany? That comes with Phase Two: Attracting members. I knew that word of mouth advertising is the best form of advertising. So I started talking about my forum (my old one that was), and tried to promote it on other sites that I would visit: Facebook, Reddit, and other forums, whether they be discussions dedicated toward anime, directories for role playing, administration of forums... And I wasn't really getting anywhere. Because this is the problem. Look at what these other places cater towards. Discussion about anime, sure has people who enjoy anime, they enjoy talking about the latest and greatest anime available, and maybe sometimes a classic. But they're there to talk and debate. People on role playing directories might be looking for people to role play with them, but primarily on their own forum, and the discussions are about making your forum a better role playing experience for others. Administration Forum, like this one, most of the people probably couldn't give a rats-butt care about role playing, let alone anime. We're here to discuss growth strategies for our forums. Popular mega-platforms on Social Media, like Facebook and Reddit, I've found don't convert into memberships. They're happy getting their dopamine burst by posting an endless onslaught of me-me-me posts or worse yet, debating the political circus we have going on right now. So right now, I'm kind of clueless where to go searching for people who want to role play anime magical girls. Sure, there are subReddits for magical girls, playing by post role playing, even Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Facebook has some interesting groups, like I'm Begging You to Try... and various other anime based groups. However, I'm not putting too much hope into gaining anymore than maybe five new potential members from these sources. Discord is a popular role playing platform, but, converting somebody from Instant Chat to Delayed Posting is a tough call, especially where there's no active community at present. I think the only true and tried method of getting a forum like mine to be successful, is just to go out and make genuine friendly connections and casually bring up the forum. If the idea resonates with that person, they'll join. But I've been trying to do that since I moved to the East Coast. I'm still pretty friendless. Sorry this turned into kind of a rant, but I thought it would be a good idea to share the magical thought I had this morning, as it could be useful advice for anybody else who's struggling getting their forum/site off the ground. (Note, as I wrote the title to this post last, I'm not entirely sure which Tag is the most accurate.)

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