General How many forums have you had (and what where they)?

[Tyrsson]

There is a typo in your topic title

(and what where they)​

 

[Shawn Gossman]

Let me think about it... I'm old now... LOL From 2000 to present:

First forum was a goth forum. Don't laugh. I used to be goth as a teen LOL. It used PhpBB1 and I then restarted it with PhpBB2. It didn't last long. I was on dialup back then!

When ProBoards first started, I made a forum there about WebTV, LOL.

I had a general forum using PhpBB2 plugged into Php-Nuke. Anyone remember that? It was awesome!

I've had many weather-related forums: WeatherBB, Skywarn Forum, Storm Chaser Forum - used MyBB, vBulletiin, and XenForo for those.

I started AAF 1.0 on SMF and eventually went to IPB and then XF.

I had my Skywarn Forum on vBulletin 3.X series.

Now I have 4 and working on 5th.

1. Another Admin Forum (2.0)
2. Bike Southern Illinois
3. Blogging Collective
4. The Hiking Forum

WIP-5: Off Topic Forum which is going to be on vBulletin 6 because I want to try it out LOL

I've done some digging and used the heck out of the way back machine.

I've had a few admin forums over the years. ForumSeed.com in 2007. AdminQuest.com in 2008. I wonder if I merged those two. I really can't remember. Is that a sign of old age?!?!?

I had a website called Kruzzen once. I tried to make it like MSN or Yahoo with a network of websites like a dating site (using osDate by TuFat - anyone remember that one) and others. I had a general forum on it called All Topics. I think it was very short-lived.

I've had so many forums that I can't remember what all I've had.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I've had quite a few throughout the past decade. Most were related to video games, specific franchises. I've had a couple Pokemon related forums, a Sonic related one, a Mega Man one, a webmaster one, a paranormal one, and a few general discussion forums. I currently own an inclusive one, a general discussion forum, one based on a gaming franchise, and a promotional one that I need to work on more.

 

[Tyrsson]

In all the years of being around and working on forums. I've had one forum and it lived for like 6 months. The next one I start will be running custom software and may, at some point become installable software but that is at least a year out. Its been started, but I have found something I am more interested in building for the moment.

 

[Cedric]

In all the years of being around and working on forums. I've had one forum and it lived for like 6 months. The next one I start will be running custom software and may, at some point become installable software but that is at least a year out. Its been started, but I have found something I am more interested in building for the moment.

Just curious to what kind of forum you’d actually make. Would it be a programming one?

 

[Tyrsson]

It will serve to "dogfood" the components I am building as well as provide support.

 

[Cory]

I've had two Yu-Gi-Oh forums, one of which was a flop, and about three coding/resource forums. I may have had more forums back in the day of InvisionFree/ZetaBoards, but I don't recall them. InvisionFree/ZetaBoards, ProBoards, and Jcink are the software all the communities were on. I've never used self-hosted forum software. Out of those five, two resource forums were the primary success.

I forgot I had a general discussion forum at one point too. We split jCodes into two forums, jCodes and jDiscussions. jDiscussions was a general discussion forum, and jCodes remained a coding-only forum. Later on, we re-combined jDiscussions back into jCodes because jDiscussions did not gain much traction. Suffice it to say, that was a bad mistake splitting the two boards a part. There are well over 400 topics in the Trash Can due to this once made move.