I created my forum some time ago. It was launched about a year and a half ago. Since then, I have been constantly improving it. It is a professional forum focused on security. I will be glad if you take a look at diskuse.bozpforum.cz
Currently has 418 users, 1132 responses, 266 topics.
The forum belongs to the online magazine bozpforum.cz.
I would like to ask. Do you still believe in online discussion forums today? Or are they really "OUT"?
How do you promote your forums? What worked best for you?
Do you also use paid advertising? What a.
Thanks for the discussion and any good suggestion.
If we do only what we can to do, we would never do anything.
Thank you for sharing @vit-hofman,
Very nice forum! All is clean and well organized.
I would like to ask. Do you still believe in online discussion forums today? Or are they really "OUT"?
Currently, forums are used for many reasons. The problem is, it is extremely hard to get a forum going these days. All forum administrators have to ask one question to their selves: Why should anyone visit your place and keep coming back?
You need to offer something valuable which other sites can't do. People won't come to your forum to rant, chit-chat, bond, socialize. They will come for a specific reason. You need to offer something valuable which they cannot find elsewhere and in your case you would be competing against Youtube (tutorials), Facebook/Twitter/Instagram (socializing, display of art) and other giants.
So if you can use these giants to bring traffic then it's perfect. Your forum will grow. The forum is a good "product", it generates unique content in search engines for you and increase the traffic. People love to see others discussions in a website, it brings trust and engagement. But the start is always hard, sometimes you need to spend 1-2 years to get the result you want.
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The forum has professional content and people can get a well-founded answer, advice, opinion for free, for which they would probably pay elsewhere.
But I admit that we struggle a lot with social networks, which are simply competition, but of poor quality.
But I'm not giving up. I believe I am doing a good thing, doing something for people and I am determined to continue to be patient.
If we do only what we can to do, we would never do anything.
@vit-hofman i built a forum last year within 3 months I gained 1k + users and I was frustrated because people are not interacting with the platform and I decided to shut it down and now I regretted why I did that , your forum must be unique to you not only for your users .. so if you stay focus and believe in yourself the forum will grow but get a domain name that's can easily be assessed by users