General What part of community building makes you struggle? (1 Viewer)

[Cedric]

I remember like 10 years ago, I had a free hosting with big watermark everywhere and I used SMF to build a forum and surprisingly it became so famous so quickly within months I had over 20 thousand active users and my forum could not survive specially with that free hosting. That time I had no idea about IT related stuff and I was just totally new.
Now, I have gained so much experience in IT, I even had 2 android apps and over 15 websites, I still have over 20 domains and the crazy part is I do not have traffic even 10 users.
I don't know if this is my struggling phase or the internet/ SEO has totally changed. But its kind a annoying and I am so disappointed

To be frankly, it's probably too soon to open your community. Have you gotten any audience that you can target before you opened your forum? Organic traffic builds up very slowly. It takes months to years to gain some noticeable traffic. Which website are you talking about here? We can probably help guide you, but it's not an overnight solution as you may well be aware of.

 

[InMyOpinion]

We have a notice at the top of the skins forum that we recommend they subscribe to skin topics for skins they use with email notifications turned on in case the skin is ever updated.

I have live notifications on my board's Discord channel for new resources posted. Unfortunately, for the years it's been available there are only 30+ users on there.

I suppose I could send a bulk email every time we release X new resources for users to see.

It might be worth doing to help members stay updated and engaged. It might even make old members come back and check out what's new. That's something I would recommend any way. Hopefully it'll help bring back some activity.

 

[Cory]

It might be worth doing to help members stay updated and engaged. It might even make old members come back and check out what's new. That's something I would recommend any way. Hopefully it'll help bring back some activity.

It's worth a shot! I could have users subscribe to a newsletter for new resources released on the forum and perhaps that will keep some members coming back.

 

[Bawse]

I struggle converting lurking members into users that make posts on my forums as a lot of them come to my site for passwords to play our poker games.

 

[Cedric]

I struggle converting lurking members into users that make posts on my forums as a lot of them come to my site for passwords to play our poker games.

Very simple approach:

You keep it under a minimum post count. This add on can help:

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[InMyOpinion]

It's worth a shot! I could have users subscribe to a newsletter for new resources released on the forum and perhaps that will keep some members coming back.

That's a great idea! You can also try to come up with an incentive for members to get the newsletter. Perhaps have some codes or skins discounted for the first x amount of codes or skins. That way members will always be looking at the newsletter and wanting "first dibs".

 

[Cory]

Perhaps have some codes or skins discounted for the first x amount of codes or skins.

All the codes and skins are free on my board. I do it as a hobby.