I have seen people that like to own a lot of forums and some that own one or a few. How many can you manage at once? I only own one, I can't deal with more than that 😛
I agree with you all. Managing more than one forum is really difficult. When I started to build forums, looking at other forums I thought it was easy, get some quality posts and members will come and start posting. But it went completely in a different way.
I started off with 2 forums. Without having members in my team, it was really difficult for me to configure, promote forums and keep checking regularly for spammers and moderating them.
I was not reaching any of the milestones I had set. After thinking a lot I decided to work with one forum and leave the second forum for some time. Once my first forum has team members to support and the activity of the forum is good then I would start off with the second forum.
The main challenge I am facing currently is promoting the forum, get members to be active and last but the least quality posts, as it is taking longer time than I expected.
I have only one forum, because I feel like I can only handle one thing right now. I have considered making another forum, but it will be a while until the whole consideration is put into effect.