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bgt August 12th, 2006 5:41 PM

Its pretty decent. Although its pretty hard to just run a forum by itself with no supporting site. Since your site is usually what does the advertising for your forum; and its pretty hard to get an active forum when theres so much competition around.

Blaze August 12th, 2006 6:46 PM

I believe a forum can only become successive if you continually keep it active, otherwise it just ends up eventually dieing like a majority of forums.

Also Community Forums do not always work, though they do make it easier to gain new members faster and help keep activity up.

Thomas August 12th, 2006 6:52 PM

Also advertisement is a part of it, not just on site but on other forums. You have to continually get the word out. Always, but a link in your signature, and get others that support your forum to do that same. PM friends on other forum to join. Also make friends with newbies, they will do anything you say xD

Faltzer August 13th, 2006 10:27 AM

Also,people,if you're going to have forums on your sites,don't make the mistake of making 100 forums of non-sense. A good example of a forum,is to have less forums and more members. I see this all the time.

Quote:

-Category
Rules
Announcements
Introductions
Feedback and suggestions
Questions

-Category
Pokemon general
pokemon games
pokemon tcg
pokemon art
pokemon sites
pokemon clubs

-category
general talk
fan clubs
art
pictures of yourself
rpg's

Statistics
Our members have made a total of 2 posts in 2 threads.
We currently have 2 members registered.
Please welcome our newest member, random member
The most users online at one time was 1 on 04-10-2005 at 05:05 PM
Yes (note,this is an example from my forum)
Quote:

-Main
General Discussions
Announcements
Suggestions/Complaints
Games,Music & Entertainment
-Pokemon
General Pokemon
Pokemon Games
Pokemon TCG
Pokemon Netbattle


Statistics
Our members have made a total of 279 posts in 51 threads.
We currently have 32 members registered.
Please welcome our newest member, RocketBoss
The most users online at one time was 4 on 07-16-2006 at 05:05 PM
I also want to suggest to people,to not have a forum link with out content. You aren't going to get any activity or members with out any decent content.

pokejungle August 14th, 2006 10:23 PM

Yeah, MMC started out with a lot less boards than other forums and it was helpful in the long run. 30,000 posts later we expanded a bit, because we could support more boards.

[[ It feels kind of good to be posting in this thread again ]]

Dragonfree August 15th, 2006 5:41 AM

I have never in my life advertised my forums in any way at all, and don't intend to. :P Anything to lessen the amount of times I have this conversation with a member of my forums:

"Hey, where do I find [insert something people have been talking about or putting in their sigs here]?"
"Uh, it's on the site."
"What site?"
"...The Cave of Dragonflies main site? www.dragonflycave.com?"
"Oh, lol, I never knew there was a main site."
"... *kick kick kick*"

pokejungle August 15th, 2006 8:03 AM

I market my forum as more standalone, so I won't run into that problem. It's got its own domain, it operates separately, I just run it/.

Faltzer August 15th, 2006 10:10 AM

Hey,Paul,been some time. MMC has around 16 boards,and more then 20,000 posts.

BlueEew August 16th, 2006 9:07 AM

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Originally Posted by coolmaster
That's pretty good thought it is kinda sad that most of the posts come from Trash Talk.

Yes everyone loves thrash talk, phpBB 3 is getting released soon so I am going to make the forum smaller and more organised by using the sub forums.

Also I made PokeProject forums when I was new to everythink, I consider myself lucky really to get that many members ETC.

I am also working on a site for pokeproject and I am using freewebs as some of you know, but I am thinking of switching and buy a host.

Dose anyone recomend godaddy? Two member have said its good, so could someone tell me if it is easy to use like freewebs ETC.

Thomas August 17th, 2006 12:15 AM

For hosting I reccomend elixant.com and for domain names I reccomend aplus.net.

BlueEew August 17th, 2006 6:33 AM

I was thinking of using godaddy.com, because they have a good price/package and also have great domain prices.

So I was going to buy the middle godaddy package plus a domain, so I don't have to transfer the domain.

But I have only ever used freewebs as a host, is there a simple web site builder like freewebs with godaddy? Also dose it support .txt documents?

Thomas August 17th, 2006 6:38 AM

I don't know but Elixant.com has great super reliable servers and lots of great deals. Also if you know someone else that uses Elixant and use their affiliate code you and the other person gets a % off.

pokejungle August 17th, 2006 7:26 AM

If you want domains, choose 1&1. They have the cheapest, most reliable domains and their hosting comes feature-packed dirty cheap.

I've been happy with my domains there.

Blaze August 17th, 2006 8:45 AM

o_O;; You are kidding right Paul...

1&1 could honestly be the WORST domain reseller in the entire world. Everyone I know (including myself) had troubles with them. I wanted to move my domain TheJohto.com to GoDaddy.com, and I had nothing but troubles.

It now is stuck in limbo land ;<

Faltzer August 17th, 2006 9:09 AM

Elixant is too expensive,IMO. Even if the hosting plans are good,I don't recommend people getting expensive hosting and then placing adsense on your website for it to pay for you.

hmm..looking at my stats,I'm recieving around 70 unique PV's per day. :D

Thomas August 17th, 2006 9:12 AM

Elixant is not expensive, with discount codes from existing users you can get a year of hosting with 500 MB for only like 30 bucks. Anyway, you pay more you get more serice and reliability. Elixant has a top notch customer support and great reliable servers. They have never gone down or even gotten slow.

Faltzer August 17th, 2006 9:41 AM

Quote:

Elixant is too expensive,IMO
Meaning,my opinion. And yes,I've seen discount codes. I would get Elixant hosting,but my dad thinks it's expensive. :/

Thomas August 17th, 2006 12:38 PM

What does your dad have to do with this?

pokejungle August 17th, 2006 12:44 PM

Probably because Faltzer's dad is paying the cost.

I haven't had *any* trouble with 1&1. I integrated in with MMC and no problems. It was pretty quick, and cheaper than Elixant.

Elixant hosting is some of the cheapest reliable hosting I've seen. You need to accept that webhosting isn't cheap Faltzer.

Faltzer August 17th, 2006 1:21 PM

I wasn't saying hosting was cheap. ._.

pokejungle August 17th, 2006 2:32 PM

You're saying Elixant is expensive, and I'm saying it's not in any way shape or form expensive.

Faltzer August 17th, 2006 2:51 PM

Yes,because elixant is expensive in MY opinion. Duh.

New topic:
Have you ever experienced spam bots on your site? I have, and it wasn't cool.

Dragonfree August 17th, 2006 3:37 PM

New topic:

Why do you love talking about ?id= URLs so much?

Faltzer August 17th, 2006 3:39 PM

<sorry_excuse>Umm...because I can. 'NUFF SAID</sorry_excuse>

Steve Z August 17th, 2006 3:42 PM

New Topic:
who has godaddy?
I do


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