I'm sure many of us have went through several forums in our lifetime.

 

For me, I'll start... (including dates and forum software used)

• X Community (August 2004, InvisionFree): My first ever forum, but never took off... really because I was an immature noob then and had only like four members (although one of them was a good friend of mine from school, who had experience with forums herself)
  
• EXE Community (September 2004, InvisionFree): Pretty much the same as the last one, only that I had 11 members, but that was a flop too
  
• DX Community (March 2005, InvisionFree): A forum where I had some success with, and lasted a good couple of months... until I abandoned it in July that year
  
• RX Community (April 2008, ZetaBoards): Was my most successful forum ever, where I had it for four years and during that time had amassed over 500 members, though a good portion of them were from my YouTube channel at the time. Too bad it had to close following petty drama that broke out...
  
• Ocular Perception (September 2013, ZetaBoards): The first forum I made that was on a specific genre, in that case of multimedia. It didn't take off well and after two members I closed it
  
• The Hideout (January 2015, ZetaBoards): A forum that was made for former members of RXComm, and was invite-only (therefore I did not make its link public, until I later did). Was closed in July 2015 and I can't remember why...
  
• The Lightweb (September 2017, ZetaBoards): A forum that was initially made for the people I befriended at the RKC Petz Forum but it wasn't that popular amongst them... but became a runaway success within the ZetaBoards community for some reason. While it did live up to the greatness of RXComm in some ways, I didn't want to continue it on a new platform following the Tapatalk crisis
  
• mindsConnected (June 2018, Jcink): A tech forum that served as the spiritual successor to TLW, to which I had closed in April 2019 following a sudden slump in activity, lack of motivation coupled with frustration with Jcink in general and that I suddenly lost a trusted Developer. Even though it had closed then, it was continued as a Discord server until I passed the baton in October that year (but the server is now gone as of February 2020, so that's when the community really dissipated). As everyone would know, it reopened its doors in September, after a long five years.
  
• The Knowledge Hub (August 2024, Forumotion): A social science/general knowledge forum that didn't last long, plus the fact that I didn't like Forumotion all that much. Its uncertain fate and eventual closure had led to me reopening the above forum.
  

 

So... what about you? :)

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.