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by **Fruitcake** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 5:00 am

When i started a forum they thought there were too many when i had 10.

If the forums are at least a little bit relevant to what the user wants to post about they would post in what they think is close enough and if many people start posting about the same kind of stuff, create a new forum about it. Sometimes large forums look a bit messy and with lots of forums with minimal posts it creates the illusion that it's not very popular.

by **webmaster** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 9:19 am

Fruitcake wrote:When i started a forum they thought there were too many when i had 10.

If the forums are at least a little bit relevant to what the user wants to post about they would post in what they think is close enough and if many people start posting about the same kind of stuff, create a new forum about it. Sometimes large forums look a bit messy and with lots of forums with minimal posts it creates the illusion that it's not very popular.

You are right about what you are saying, but the problem is to get users to a forum like that. There are thousands of little forums around the net, and I want the guests of the forum to see how big the forum "will" be.

by **lil9** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:36 pm

Things like this just take time. In a couple of months they'l be more users and more forums being used.

by **webmaster** on Sun Sep 12, 2004 12:54 pm

lil9 wrote:Things like this just take time. In a couple of months they'l be more users and more forums being used.

Hopefully, its just so hard to get users to a new forum. But Im doing my best. =)

by **Fruitcake** on Mon Sep 13, 2004 12:14 am

Agreed. I'm sure these forums will be kicking soon.

Majority rules

Great site btw.

by **Webzyne** on Fri Oct 01, 2004 7:50 pm

Well, here's a few you can COMBINE:

1. ASP and ASP.NET
2. Domains and Hosting
3. 3D Studio Max and Lightwave can be "3D Modeling" with those same subforums. That way people aren't forced to only talk about those programs. There's Maya, Cinema 4D, etc.
4. Java and Javascript

Oh and you have Flash in your programming section, I think that should either be changed to ActionScript or move Flash into your webmaster's area.

Hopefully this will help, and I understand your point of wanting to have everything you can, but it may scare off some users with that many empty forums for them to scroll by.

I have 19 forums on my site, and I think it's way too many, but I've cut it down as much as possible, you have 9 Hardware forums when I have just "Hardware" as one forum. It makes it less complicated for the users. They know they want to talk about hardware, then there gonna have to scroll through 9 different forums trying to find the one they want to post in..

Edit: I recently took out the Hardware and Software sections in my forum, in case you wondered why they weren't there anymore. (The link is in my sig, by the way)

You have 39 forums by the way, not counting the sub-sub-forums

As a last word though, you're site is very nice, I like the design; very clean and organized. Good work!

by **webmaster** on Fri Oct 01, 2004 8:29 pm

That is some good ideas, I will combine asp and asp.net and domains as a subcategory on hosting. Hopefully the lightwave and 3dsm forum will be active soon, so I will keep them seperated.

by **donnar** on Sun Oct 03, 2004 8:05 am

I agree with who ever said there are too many forums, theres way too many and very dis organized with not even one post in them and having forced login and not allowing guests to even preview the contents before registering is a little false.

If you want your forum to grow open it up, let people see what it is they are registering for instead of deceiving them.

Just my views.

by **webmaster** on Sun Oct 03, 2004 11:06 am

donnar wrote:I agree with who ever said there are too many forums, theres way too many and very dis organized with not even one post in them and having forced login and not allowing guests to even preview the contents before registering is a little false.

If you want your forum to grow open it up, let people see what it is they are registering for instead of deceiving them.

Just my views.

That was what we have been doing the first month. Since we added the "have-to-login" setting, we have got many new members and many of them have become active in the forum and posted many posts. We made this change as a test and is has been very good, so we wil keep it that way.

We want the forum to become bigger, when we think it is big enough, we will remove the "have-to-login", because I agree with you that it is a little bit false. But it gives many members and that is all we need right now to make the forum better.

Btw. Welcome to DEVPPL =)

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