shadow_death_
Resident
I've had Top Hat for about 4 months now, and I've had 3 active members who have left by now. 🙁
Should I just give up?
Should I just give up?
Time to quite?
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Quacker Jack
Madly Diligent
Good forums are made by admins ceaselessly adding more and more to their forums to encourage new members to join and old members to stay. If you are up to it, when your member count gets low (like now I assume?), you should try and perk things up with a new design, new features, contests, etc. If you are not up to it, you may go ahead a close it now.
Hopes that helps a bit. I've run many forum projects, and I've never just given up on it. If my staff team leaves me though, then I give up on the forum as well.
Hopes that helps a bit. I've run many forum projects, and I've never just given up on it. If my staff team leaves me though, then I give up on the forum as well.
I find that most people on this forum who lament that they've failed/are failing are doing so because they took the wrong approach. I wrote a whole E-book on how to avoid doing that, but it wasn't very popular. People want to learn some kind of quick easy secret to success, and the fact is, there is no quick dirty secret so naturally that book didn't go anywhere. You have to work hard, often for a long time, to get a successful forum that is a standalone {isn't part of larger, already successful website or product, which can sprout a forum quickly, but in those cases the work has already been poured into the site/product so they still did the work}.
4 months is nothing. My forum was relatively slow for its first couple of years. And we suffered several setbacks. People need to get out of the mindset of starting a forum aiming only to get it big as fast as possible. {Notice also how many large forums go up for sale or change hands. Running one is stressful!}
What have you tried so far to promote/grow your board?
4 months is nothing. My forum was relatively slow for its first couple of years. And we suffered several setbacks. People need to get out of the mindset of starting a forum aiming only to get it big as fast as possible. {Notice also how many large forums go up for sale or change hands. Running one is stressful!}
What have you tried so far to promote/grow your board?
shadow_death_
Resident
Advertising of tons of sites, buying tons of ad space, getting tons of affiliates, making tons of promotions/contests, and buying posts/members.
A few things you could do right now, prior to just giving up include:
1) Get a decent looking theme. The grey is fairly depressing. The theme doesn't have to be amazing, just more uplifting than your current one is.
2) Have the route of your board URL direct to the index page, not to a boring welcome message.
3) Make your URLs bookmarkable by people (HINT: Stop using iFrames).
Also you're forum is trying be too many things at once. That never works. You might want to try relaunching in a niche market.
1) Get a decent looking theme. The grey is fairly depressing. The theme doesn't have to be amazing, just more uplifting than your current one is.
2) Have the route of your board URL direct to the index page, not to a boring welcome message.
3) Make your URLs bookmarkable by people (HINT: Stop using iFrames).
Also you're forum is trying be too many things at once. That never works. You might want to try relaunching in a niche market.
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