Shawn
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Welcome back to the forum :)
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My first site was made with the WebTV page builder. My second website was on Tripod-Lycos. Remember that? LOL Dreambook all that stuff haha Then, I found Freepgs.com and started doing HTML. Wanted to code a Php/Mysql forum but never sat down and learned it.
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Out of all your tactics, I think forums might be the best method. I mean you're catering to people who already likes forums :D
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That makes sense!
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I think it was a good read and an accurate depiction of the state of forums. I especially resonate with the last point - the appreciation of what forums have always been like in terms of structure. I have a Facebook group with more than 45K members. It's extremely active. It's so unorganized. If categories and prefixes existed, it would be a much better experience. I'm spoiled with forums but now social media is trying to kill the forum -- rather they have been trying for a while now.
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Some Errors You Might Encounter in Your Forum Software
Shawn replied to AWS's topic in Bugs, Errors & Problems
These are better than what it was like back in the phpBB2 days. Any time you want a plugin, you have to edit every file to add it. It would take HOURS, and back then, I was on dialup. I don't miss those days, LOL. -
So You Need Staff? Follow This Guide to Promote Users
Shawn replied to AWS's topic in Moderators Needed
I agree with that. Sometimes, it's hard to find ones that stick around. They want to me a moderator, get promoted to one, and this vanish only to come back to see if they need to "moderate," and that's it. I always hated that. Admins and mods should represent what active forum members look like. -
Glad to see it up!
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I didn't have the time for a while, but in all honesty, I really missed forums. After starting to get back into it, I kind of have that excitement in my life again.
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Welcome! What webmaster forum?
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I'm into outdoor recreation addictedly. Lol. Hiking, cycling, kayaking, and caving are a few of my favorite things. :) Of course, forums, too. I also like blogging. I write multiple blogs every week.
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I'll second this 8)
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A great tip for your newer forum admins. Deal with forum drama quickly and privately if you can! Forum drama is the best way to make a community toxic. Once your community becomes toxic, it's hard to clean it up and make it non-toxic. Drama can hurt feelings and create enemies. Try to resolve it quickly and shut it down from the public as soon as you can.
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We all got them. What are yours?
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I typically engage my existing network for outdoor related forums. Everything else, I mix copywriting and social media promotion and schedule daily promotional posts for the forum. I'll also go to promotion forums and admin forums and utilize their promotion features. How about you all?
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Have you ever wanted to create your own forum software? If I had the know-how, I'd love to create software. It would most likely be free software because I don't want to hassle making it into a business. How about everyone else?
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I barely remember it and I owned it LOL
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Yeah that is true. I guess I'm kind of hypocritical in a way because I initially left vb because they wanted to break everything apart. I do believe that was my reasoning. I guess I'm so used to not having an all-in-one platform that I got used to not having it, LOL. It'll grow on me. I'm using all the services, anyways.
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I used MyBB for a long time. I forgot all about this site. I think it was my first admin forum! https://web.archive.org/web/20090203011908/http://adminquest.com/forum/index.php You can't really see the theme sadly.
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Yeah. I'm mixed on them. For a forum like this, where members will already probably know what they are for, then I enable them. But for my hiking forum or biking forum, no one really understand what they are and I want to make engagement as simple as possible, so I don't enable them.
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I agree with that. A community manager role would be good for this on a forum, but as the forum grows bigger, the CM could appoint mentors and change their role to lead them.
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I really like how they have outlines their team roles https://mybb.com/about/team/roles/ I think it's good to be organized like that as a provider of something
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I am a paid community manager for Copyblogger, a long-standing website. I believe around 2006 is when it opened. Anyways, online community retention is successful through onboarding. We get new members (paid) and then onboard them to be successful at learning how to be a copywriter. I feel the same tactic is needed on forums. How many members join and then that's it, they become inactive? If you create an onboarding strategy where you engage the members and get them to seamlessly integrate into the community, you'll likely have more active members and higher engagement rates. What do you all think about this idea?
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I almost wonder if separating the articles, blogs, groups as official addons would be better? They could lower the price of the forum. I say that with a reason. You could disable all the extra stuff if you wanted to right? But those files are still there and code is still calling it right? Even if the return it saying "Hey I'm disabled for now" but there is still bloat in the package on your server. Any thoughts on that?
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Me and you are a lot alike! When I left forums for a while it was because I was in pain, a drunk, and extremely depressed. It took a long, hard, and dark road to get me out of all that. The outdoors is what saved me. But I find it funny that people kept joining while the forum just waited around for you to come back -- if only it was a bunch of active members who policed themselves and you came back to a self-created big board. All of a sudden, they're like, who's this AWS guy LOL.
