How many forums have you had?

[Bryn]

Before the one I've got currently, I had two in the past. One was RX Community, a general community forum that I had since 2008 and had heavily advertised it here on my old account, until it met its death in 2012. The one after that was The Hideout at the start of 2015 where, as the name suggested, was a forum that only those with its link can access it in where I had first shared amongst my inner circle. However, that only lasted six months as it hadn't felt the same since the demise of my other one and that I was quickly losing the impetus of running a forum in general, and that I had personal issues to deal with also which affected it. That was the same for the other one too.

How about you? Have you went though many forums throughout your lifetime or, have you always kept the one that you still have today?

 

[Moonface]

Two. My current one, and for a brief period I had a graphics board that I made on a whim and got rid of it fairly quickly.

 

[BeautifulAngel]

Before the one I've got currently, I had two in the past. One was RX Community, a general community forum that I had since 2008 and had heavily advertised it here on my old account, until it met its death in 2012. The one after that was The Hideout at the start of 2015 where, as the name suggested, was a forum that only those with its link can access it in where I had first shared amongst my inner circle. However, that only lasted six months as it hadn't felt the same since the demise of my other one and that I was quickly losing the impetus of running a forum in general, and that I had personal issues to deal with also which affected it. That was the same for the other one too.

How about you? Have you went though many forums throughout your lifetime or, have you always kept the one that you still have today?

What was your old account name?

I remember RX Community and The Hideout! I wasn't huge on forums at that point but I remember your forums being advertised and I had visited them a few times.

I myself have had three forums, I decided to stop at one point cause I didn't have the time to dedicate towards a forum.

 

[Bryn]

What was your old account name?

I believe it was CrashRX, if my memory serves me. And, I didn't know you were visitors to them during that time. That's nice to know 😀

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

I owned a forum that would replace a forum of a YouTube MCN that closed their forum for being "dead", despite having lots of people actively posting every day, and ended up having only 2 members including myself.

I owned a Mario Kart modding community for a very short time after the native owner left, but since I was actively developing games for Nintendo platforms, I had to transfer ownership to someone else.
Now the current owner is gone too, so now I'm the unofficial owner of the same forum as a fallback (which means that I'm basically the only one that can moderate things while the entire staff is gone too).

Then I had forums for my YouTube channel and a little support forum for my game dev studio, both of which are currently closed, but a re-launch for the game dev one is planned.

And I owned a few joke forums for a very limited time, but none of which were anything serious.

And now all I own are test forums that I use while developing my own forum system, but it's not accessible from the outside world, so I don't think I can really count this one.

 

[Shannon Apple]

I actually owned two myself. One back in 2006, a graphics community and a game community. I ran away from the graphic design project quite quickly when one of my other admins bought the domain, redirected members there, before I could buy it, so he could gain control. He wasn't a nice individual. We had set it up on a free forum first and did all the ground work of finding a great staff and so forth. It went south then because I left. I was the one with the people skills. That guy was a total jerk. lol.

After that, I became a super moderator of anime-forums.com. I had previously been on their development team. I abandoned idea of owning my own forum and worked there instead. In the much later years I became a volunteer admin. We didn't own it, but when you love a community like I did, you don't feel like the work you are doing is work. 🙂 The owner left us to run it as he trusted us. It was sold in 2014 without telling us (that made us very annoyed actually) to some idiots from Columbia and they destroyed the site despite our best efforts to work with them. By 2016, it was gone after being offline for months at a time because they didn't want to pay for it's hosting. They thought they could put it on cheap hosting and didn't care if members left. They said "new people will join."

That's where the current forum, Sakuga City, comes in. The members who didn't leave yet (lol) asked us to do something since they hated the new owners and wanted me to take over, to buy it, or something. I was not going to buy a forum that those idiots wrecked. They even allowed hackers to have access to the database, which I'm pretty sure was only because they were stupid and thought they were getting free labour. There could have been all sorts of backdoors in the code. I got the staff together and we plotted to create SC. I'm not the owner, another member of our staff volunteered to be it's owner on paper. He manages the community's money haha. The community own that forum now, not any one of us. A gaurantee that it won't be sold on them again. 🙂

Back in 2009, I did run another fourm for my gaming clan. That one lasted maybe 5 years. It wasn't open to the public, so doesn't really count all that much. hehe.

 

[Mozzie]

I have had quite a few boards in all the time i have been on the net

 

[NicheLaboratory]

I started one in 2012. It never got many "real" posters but it still gets a fair bit of traffic due to some good keyword research. I had to close it to new members though as I just could not keep the spammers out and it wasn't worthwhile spending all that time to acquire 3-4 new members a year!

I put one on my keyword tool site as well, but nobody ever posts there.

 

[Page]

I started in 2012 when I got into forums. late 2013 is when I started my first forum that runs of Enjin (with own domain), until the clan was inactive and website went offline since 2014 till 2018. Now I have two forums running, mybb and IPB.