Suggestions for a forum

[Shadowcavern]

Hey there, I have just opened a forum at http://www.shadowcavern.net/forum and im asking for your help and support.
You people are the kind of audience that I am trying to attract to the site (D20 gamers) so id like to know what you think of the forums and make any suggestions etc. about what i could do to improve them.

P.S. I only put the forums up yesterday (29th May) and id be very glad of any input.

All the best,
Ben

 

[Plane Sailing]

Your best bet is to start with a single forum and then to separate it into additional forums as and when required.

That is how this one started, after all!

If you *don't* do this, you will probably find it difficult to develop the critical mass of visitors which will make it useful.

Regards,

 

[Shadowcavern]

Yeah, ive been involved in a number of comunity forums and seen many crumble from having to many forums and not enough memebrs. I wont fall into that trap. All the forums I have at the moment are used (obsiously not since my database crashed) but I make sure that inactive forums that 'dont work' are removed. Thank you

 

[BiggusGeekus]

Yeah, ive been involved in a number of comunity forums and seen many crumble from having to many forums and not enough memebrs.

Like WotC. Geeze. Over 30 active forums in their D&D area alone. And the admins complain that they keep having to move threads.

 

[Snoweel]

Give Forrester a forum.

People can write in and ask him why the stuff they like sucks.

It'll be a riot!

 

[Shadowcavern]

Sadly yes there are some terribly run, spam filled forums out there with about 12 users, 10 administrators and 56 forums There just waiting for them to get popular...