well, you got to have a purpose. You won't get any far with just putting up a forum where people can talk about anything. Your forum can be for whatever, as long as it has a purpose. One of the good ways to start a forum is by getting a couple of people to start it off.. Posting a lot of posts. This will make it easier to draw people to use your forum as they then can start off with reading and not just come in to an empty area and "now what?" Also, a forum needs to be simple,, not too many forums, subforums and sub subforums and so on.. Make it as clean and organized as possible. You should also have a good looking theme on the forum. If running a whole website + forum, make sure to have the same theme on both so that the users don't feel like going into a completely different area. I think thats about it, from me atleast^^
Just signed up our forum - totalMINI.com... a global community forum for new and classic MINI Owners We're relatively young, only being founded in April 09. 2500 members, 70-80 online at any one time.
My site is closing in on 150,000 members and normall has anywhere from 1200 to 1900 people online at anytime. We have over 2 million posts. http://www.satelliteguys.us
We were at your forum fixing the image upload and impressed by the setup and among of activity there, well done!
We have a busy forum. Our forum mostly attracted people in their 30's and 40's, so I think tapatalk will be wonderful for out site. I just installed it and I love it! Our forum stats... Shack Stats Members: 2,342 Threads: 5,923 Posts: 607,270
Just installed. Threads: 1,750,000 Posts: 16,000,000 Members: 230,000 We've got over 2000 users online almost 24/7. Our peak was 3,212
Reef Central We're the largest saltwater reef aquaria site on the planet. http://www.reefcentral.com/forums
I found this is extremely interesting. the Reefs thing is almost second after the Automotive and perhaps need its own category in Tapatalk
OT (offtopic.com) should be updating their forums soon and adding Tapatalk. They have a lot of members online, besides I've been a member for 6 years there. And since the forum is pretty much payment subscription based for the main forum, a lot of people would be willing to buy Tapatalk if you manage to get it to cover all the mobile OS's.
Just installed here scikotics.com/forums Scion car club forums Forum Members: 11,053 Total Threads: 99,078 Posts: 1,775,522 average 300 online all day Had some miner PM issues but working on them now, lazy admin has no iphone only crackberry, wait thats me LOL need a way for me to debug it now, have to look through forums for a workaround members love it so far!!!
iPhoneHellas Forum www.iphonehellas.gr/forum Our Board Statistics Total Posts 134.179 Total Members 16.168 Online At Once Record 1.974
Not the biggest but still pretty big... Threads 102,625 Posts 2,547,093 Members 49,868 http://www.veggieboards.com
I just added http://www.skyscrapercity.com I win. (Threads: 549,548, Posts: 31,637,590, Members: 379,517 ) We average around 12,000 users online during weekday peak hours, and about half that on our slow times (like at the time of this post)
By far not the biggest but won't pass up an opportunity for a link- www.juot.net Joe's Ultimate Off Topic - we are mainly a general discussion forum with a number of on-topic sub forums. A thick skin is suggested but not required. Threads: 37,792, Posts: 740,043, Members: 963
