Hard Work

[Midlandi]

Running a Forum and trying to make a sucsess of it is HARD work, as I am sure all other Forum owners will agree.
I very often almost give up, especially when there are a few quiet days.I wonder is the effort worth it?
Does any other forum owner get the same feelings?

[Artvision]

Heh ... unfortunately I should agree Nowadays it's very hard to keep
a forum active. But ... we still run our forums Don't we!? Maybe sentimentality or something like that

[temi]

John,
Once needs to be VERY determined to make success of a forum, there has been days in the past when i fell like throwing the towel in but I stop having such doubt... I just notice what is working and do more of that and do away with what is not working...

Perhaps if you hand on in there long enough, you could make a success of it, don't give up

[RiverWire]

i dont think i could run more than 3 forums at a time until they run them selves, im now at a point with one of my sites that it will run its self i only go there on weekends now and check up on things

[vicdigi]

I don't own a forum but can well imagine the work it involves to keep it actively running. As Temi says, keep it running long enough and you'll make a success of it. Good luck.

[piet]

now a days it seems there are only people reading forums and not posting on them.

i run one forum and have to agree it is hard.

but i wont hire posters i want to grow natural.

[gkd_uk]

I would agree, it is difficult running a forum but if you have the right people backing you and helping in building the content and keeping the forum active, all falls in place.

[Meti]

If you want to make it easier managing a forum, do it the best way, and start a niche forum. I run a webmaster forum along with Piet and I have to admit, I don't think it is going anywhere, mainly because there are several webmaster forums out there offering a "community", activity matters.

Midlandi, I used to run a computer forum as you may be aware of, it was previously running on phpBB after a while, I thought upgrading to vB would be a great idea, and I tried to make it as userfriendly as possible, but in the end, it took too much time helping users with volunteer work. Nor, did I have active staff or users backing up, so I sold it to a good webmaster that has done his job quite impressive.

Forums take time and hard work. There are no shortcuts, as least not based on my experience.

Regards,
Meti

[ctbo]

People say its hard work to start a forum and get it going, but its even harder work when you eventually get a large established forum... forums are basically hard work all round...

[Meti]

Originally Posted by ctbo

People say its hard work to start a forum and get it going, but its even harder work when you eventually get a large established forum... forums are basically hard work all round...

It depends, if you're a experienced guy with some basic knowledge in PHP/MYSQL and experienced in forums and how to keep the sprit of a community rolling I see no issues.

- Meti