Lost Confidence ?

[Dylan]

Have you ever lost confidence in running/administrating a forum ?
How did you loose your confidence ?
How did you regain it?

 

[Gizmo]

Yes. I sold the forum.

 

[Cierra]

Nope, this hasn't happened to me.

 

[Mikaya]

I did, a while back because I feel that my efforts weren't enough in getting new members to join up and be active. Advertising is key but also difficult. I posted like crazy whenever I could to help attract visitors. I just got over it eventually and continued to contribute to the community in any way I could. Giving up just makes things worse. 😛

 

[Sharon]

Confidence? I don't think I've ever felt like I lost the confidence in running a forum...I have lost my confidence in building a website and decided to just turn it into a forum as I am not very savvy in the programming department.

 

[JohnyAF]

don't know how to gain the confidence, because i have it too much. I think it should be you, maybe you think u do it wrong, or not enough right. Just think that you do it very right, and maybe you should find back your confidence!

 

[Thomasss]

I think confidence just comes as you continue to the grow the forum. I've never really lost my confidence per say, I just realized it might not be working out and I tried to find out why, so that when I started anew I wouldn't make the same mistake twice.

 

[D]

Losing motivation to continue a project is inevitable, especially if you are not seeing the growth that you hope for.

If you lose interest in a project, move on to something else.

 

[CharterSchoolForums]

Not confidence but I didn't have enough time on my hands to fully promote it. I'm doing it now as a hobby. I started the site in 2014 but just now rebooted it.

 

[Shannon Apple]

Never lost confidence in running communities, but I suppose at the moment, we're starting over, so it's a little daunting, and doing it with other people's money. Site is 5 weeks open to new members, 160 members, 8000 posts. I guess looking at some of the other new forums here, we're not doing too badly at all for the time that it's been active.

That said, we aren't bringing in new members. Every person who has signed up so far have been people that we were already associated with. They love the new site, but in order for it to survive long time, we need new visitors and signups. ^^ That's the part that I'm worried about atm.

 

[WHE Tom]

Its hard to start anything online, with the sheer amount of competition. I guess the ones who do well stay in it for the long term.

 

[Twisted Fairytale]

Especially in this time, is very hard to start a new, successful community; especially if that community is a forum. Forums are simply not the most popular social media platform like they were eight years ago.

That being said, yes, I lost interest and motivation in Tune Junkies when I realized that the niche just wasn't catching on after about 6 months. I'm also not that great at creating and building new ideas to present to the public, I'm much better at taking established ideas and building upon them. I ended up closing the forum.

 

[LostOne1]

If you've lost confidence, it is most likely because your idea isn't original.

 

[Finn]

Looks like everyone covered the main points.
If you lose interest, the idea isn't creative or good enough, or you no longer have the passion and drive to truly make the idea succeed - ditch it.

 

[Deleted member 8254]

Failed miserably in all my time as forum admin, only 1 time i did succeed for 1 year and for the second year i didn't have the money to renew domain and i lost everything..from then till now nothing worked..so no confidence at all.

Planning to close my project and help others

 

[Dregran]

I haven't really lost confidence, but I have lost interest. I just step down and let the other staff members handle the site, until asked/persuaded back or interest returns.