I am not sure if it is just me currently but I am starting to hate owning forums. I love going on forums and that but I hate owning forums. I wonder if it is because I keep using the same software, Same plugins or the fact that I used the promotion/admin side of forum creations whenever I have created a forum. I have only ever created 2 forums not to do with webmaster related things. One was gaming and the other was a general discussion. I enjoyed both of them until I fell ill on both occasions and other reasons. So I am finally trying my last forum (related to teen discussions) if I do not get the joy back from doing this I feel the need to hang up been a forum admin (owner) and stick to modeating forums like I always used to. I started webmastering creating websites which were fun but I got into forums later on. I think it might be the fact that promotion and getting active members on forums is really hard these days and you have to throw in a lot to get something small out of it.
In my mind forums are becoming boring for me. What do you feel about forum creation? Still love it?
I also love forums, but due to things in real life, it is hard for me to get any decent time that I want to devote to building up a forum that I would love to run. It is just hard to promote, build up an idea, keep something active, and to keep it going in general. If I had the time, and I wasn't consistently interrupted by family and other things, i would be on more often than not. That is life, you cannot control it unless you had your way in everything, and had people who would actually leave you alone when you need time to the computer. I know from experience that the only way to get it, is to withdraw and have no social life to speak of.
Yeah its all the complaints, Change this, change that... blah...blah...blah and this file needs updating for security reasons and back up before updating 🙂 its annoying sometimes and hard to keep up with
I love to administrate Forums. I think that's probably because i concentrate on only one Forum at a time.
If you own a Forum, work as admin on a couple of forums and work as mod on a couple more, its sure you will find it boring soon.
Just concentrate on one, and build it. That will keep you entertaining, and make you love Forums.
Hmm. Try concentrating on other stuffs like web designing and such, rather than spending all time on Forums. If you spend too much time on a thing, it will get boring.
I do not spend a lot of time on the projects. I keep to one of my own and admin on another and I have a lot of other hobbies that I still do so it isnt that
You only have one life so you might as well make the most of it. If you don't enjoy owning and administering forums, don't force yourself to do it. Find something you enjoy more and spend your time doing that. If you prefer forum moderation, spend your time doing that. Life is short, there generally isn't much to be gained from doing something you don't enjoy.
I've been posting on forums off and on since 2007, and I still like it. Although I can see where the boring part would come in, because it can get tiring to post the same discussions over and over again.
Going on other people's forums is just fun and entertaining, but running your own is a lot of work. The work is what probably got to you. Especially since you're either not being paid for it or paid very little, or you are paying FOR It.
