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

[JudeLiebermann]

I've only had one and have always used MyBB. I did retire it for about a decade and recently brought it back last year. I don't find forums as popular as they once were.

 

[Cpvr]

I've only had one and have always used MyBB. I did retire it for about a decade and recently brought it back last year. I don't find forums as popular as they once were.

How’s the revival coming along? Are your old members slowly returning?

 

[Tyrsson]

Not had very many personal forums. Always been to busy building the software rather than the communities.

 

[JudeLiebermann]

How’s the revival coming along? Are your old members slowly returning?

None of them have returned. But it's serving a purpose of giving me a place to put free reads and advertise services.

 

[Nomad]

Mind I ask how long it had been shut for?

It has been shut down for almost a year. I was trying to sell the forum but the buyer was not interested in the forum, he was just interested in domain. After I sold the domain, I shut down the forum. I have the database. The forum is on mental health niche.

 

[Bawse]

My first forum was a webmaster forum. I started a lot of forums over the years, mostly related either building sites, or poker. I currently only have one forum, which is a poker forum. I don't plan to start any others.

 

[Cpvr]

None of them have returned. But it's serving a purpose of giving me a place to put free reads and advertise services.

Have you thought about sending out a mass email to your members? This could possibly help bring them back if you haven’t done so.

 

[Cloaked]

Lets see:

extreme-vb.net - Visual Basic programming site - started on a hacked ASP guestbook script in 1997
visualbasicforum.com - popular Visual Basic forum -started in 1999 on wwwthreads. Imported all the posts from the original Extreme VB site.
dotnetforum.net - the evolution of the visual basic forum when Microsoft EOL it. Opened in 2002.
whatpissesyouoff.com - an offshoot from a hidden forum on the visual basic site - opened in 2004
extremetechsupport.com - and computer support forum - opened in 2004 after I sold visual basic forum

There are others. Those were the most popular. All were big boards and popular during there time.

 

[Cory]

whatpissesyouoff.com

Brilliant! I'm sure that had good SEO rankings when people were pissed off.

In addition to my OP, I think my second forum wasn't even a "community", it was just an index of codes and skins found on the official InvisionFree Support board. Later on, the indexes were combined into "Big Boards," my largest resource board to date.

 

[InMyOpinion]

All together I've had 3 forums. 2 were general forums and this new one is about AIChatGPT and other AI services.