Have you had any big successes?

[NeoMetallix]

My forum, Sonic Blast, was at one point the most active Sonic forum on the web. Our peak year in 2009 had over 230k posts. Our most daily was over 2,300 posts in one day. 2010 had less but over 200k. 2011 was less but still over 100k. 2012 saw a huge drop and by the end of 2013 it was very slow. Sadly, at the time, personal life problems made it so I could not really administer it properly.

But it was very successful from 2007-2011 and we ended up at over 1.2 million before we had to go to a different software. Has anyone had a really successful forum?

 

[Ravenfreak]

Oh yeah you guys were on Zetaboards when I joined, I forgot about that. I used to have a forum for Mighty No. 9, called Mighty No. 9 Universe. I created it right when the Kickstarter page went live and made it past the first goal, this was before the official forums were open and originally the official forums were going to only be for backers or "beckers" of the project. (The main character's name is Beck.) That means we were more active than the official forums, especially after gamergate drama was going on and it turns out one of the devs of the game was involved in that so many people got mad and left the official forums to join my forum. It was my most active forum, I had up to at least 10 members online at a time sometimes even more. I messed up and wanted to move the forum to a different platform and then I wasn't that active so I ruined the community. I ended up moving the forum again and since the game was a flop I just let the community die. I tried bringing it back a couple years ago but no one logged back into their accounts despite sending out a mass email.

 

[NeoMetallix]

Oh yeah you guys were on Zetaboards when I joined, I forgot about that. I used to have a forum for Mighty No. 9, called Mighty No. 9 Universe. I created it right when the Kickstarter page went live and made it past the first goal, this was before the official forums were open and originally the official forums were going to only be for backers or "beckers" of the project. (The main character's name is Beck.) That means we were more active than the official forums, especially after gamergate drama was going on and it turns out one of the devs of the game was involved in that so many people got mad and left the official forums to join my forum. It was my most active forum, I had up to at least 10 members online at a time sometimes even more. I messed up and wanted to move the forum to a different platform and then I wasn't that active so I ruined the community. I ended up moving the forum again and since the game was a flop I just let the community die. I tried bringing it back a couple years ago but no one logged back into their accounts despite sending out a mass email.

Bummer! I like what you have going now though. 🙂

 

[The Raven92]

Not really. I think this is due lack of devotion on my part. I feel that I need to push more when it comes to marketing and the content quality, otherwise why would anyone spend time? But if I would to say my biggest succsess, even though it is a minor one compared to other forums, it would be an activity of 10 members daily.

 

[Xyphien]

I personally think I've had a successful forum. I owned a forum called RMMV (RPGMakerMV) and it had just under 40k members in it's prime. It was bringing 500k-1m views monthly, was generating decent revenue from ads as well as memberships and sales (I had a marketplace people could sell their content on and I took 20% at the time). Sadly though when itch.io blew up it kind of killed the site, that as well as drama and I didn't get the SEO up when I changed the domain to a new one. So I went from #1 on google for over 10 terms down to 3 very low end terms. It was the largest RPG Maker MV exclusive site and the largest alternative to RPG Maker forums for a little while there :') It died when I was on Deployment and couldn't keep up with it. So many dominoes fell during that time that lead to it's demise. I still have the Database, and I had it still up and running until recently (I didn't re-up the domain I guess)

 

[Nomad]

I once had a community with 1300 users and 20k posts. I haven't been able to replicate that success.

 

[cpvr]

I had a community with 270k+ posts and 10k+ members. This was a previous version of VPL that ran from 2011-2017, I hope to replicate that success.

 

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I'm still looking for my big success