I do agree back in the 00's well 2004 - 2010 there was a lot of forums about its how we all connected before facebook started and became popular and worked well. i do see forums still doing well but have to do a lot of work in finding it interesting for your visitors to get involved and be part of the community. for me i dont think forums will die its just how you promote yourself and is the content useful to your visitor, it takes time to build this niche.
I don’t think there are that many webmaster forums compared to when forums we’re really starting to take off in 2008ish. I do believe there are a a lot of “general” discussion boards with an emphasis on webmaster topics that don’t make it past 1 year. 😛
Making money out of a board is not as easy as it used to be. One major drawback is that all free forum software has some fault. Nothing that can match the paid ones.
Making money out of a board is not as easy as it used to be. One major drawback is that all free forum software has some fault. Nothing that can match the paid ones.
I disagree. They all have different features and some are better than others but paid doesn’t equal better.
xenForo is good however £55 a year for a licence is crazy. Why not use phpBB which is free and is easily competitive to xenForo.
I like xenForo but it’s not amazing. I prefer phpBB and it’s biggest bonus is it’s free. If you’re starting a forum then paying for software isn’t the best idea unless you can make a return on it which most don’t.
I think there is less now then ever, obviously the ones that are around now seem to be of a higher quality, but I remember years ago being a member of a heap of great webmaster forums, slowly most turned to crap, some got bought out and run into the ground, other webmasters just gave up.
