In the last year (or as close as possible) how far have your boards come, are they now active and full of posts and threads, or sitll sitting down there wondering what a member is?

Reason i'm posting this is because my boards hit 10k posts today, and they will properly be 1 year old on Sunday and i think i have done well with the site.


@Admin/Mod: If this is in wrong forum, sorry. This seemed most appropriate

My own forums have been very strange. They started out life as a single forum on a large community (at illout.com) and eventually outgrew being a single forum, and I bought a wBB licence. Around 2000 we were at around 30,000 posts. wBB didn't work out and we opted for vB2, we ran into some server errors and in 2002 lost everything. Started afresh late 2002, hit the 40,000 post mark then lost everything again.

Now finally in 2004, I did an optional reset, and am currently back on vb 2.3.5 (I don't like vb3), almost ready to launch the forums again.

So in answer to your question, in the last year I've gone from having a board with 40,000 posts, to a board with 0 posts ready for re-launch :)

Well, my forum started with in fact nothing but a google pagerank of 5. I received some links from sites with a high pagerank and since August 2003(boards exists since Aug 2003) we have at least 40 registrations per day.

Topics: 34.005, Postings: 411.854, User: 9.970

Although it's also linked from a Shop but it's pretty much community not commercial based. Now in 2004 we're the biggest german board for musicians and don't underestimate the power of Google, it's somehow scary but it's a pretty big deal about it..

In the last year (or as close as possible) how far have your boards come, are they now active and full of posts and threads, or sitll sitting down there wondering what a member is?

Reason i'm posting this is because my boards hit 10k posts today, and they will properly be 1 year old on Sunday and i think i have done well with the site.


@Admin/Mod: If this is in wrong forum, sorry. This seemed most appropriate
On the admin comment: This thread is perfectly in place here :)

On topic:
I think our forum has slowly been growing since the start - as long as it is growing I think we are doing ok. I prefer quality posts over quantity myself. Of course, crunching the numbers is very cool.

Gamers Euphoria was only started in March 2004, so it's not even been open a year yet - and already we have a loyal following and a reasonably active community. Of course, this could be better but without doubt this has been one of my quickest growing forums yet.

Gamers Euphoria Forum Statistics
Threads: 1,176, Posts: 16,292, Members: 241, Games: 71

We started with a site, but slowly came to realise that with the back-end we were using (Cute News), it wasn't going to work out and so the site closed a few months ago to work on version 2. I'm currently trying to get Mambo and vBulletin3 to use the same user table from the database, but it's proving to be harder than I'd hoped.

miss minnie , you should answer this one as well :) ...id love to see the stats for urban as far as growth over the past year. bet its massive :o :D

I'm currently trying to get Mambo and vBulletin3 to use the same user table from the database, but it's proving to be harder than I'd hoped.
Hey I tried that myself about 2 weeks ago and it's really hard. I didn't proceed yet due to lack of time, if you get any further please leave me a note.. would be nice :)

Gamers Euphoria was only started in March 2004, so it's not even been open a year yet - and already we have a loyal following and a reasonably active community. Of course, this could be better but without doubt this has been one of my quickest growing forums yet.

Gamers Euphoria Forum Statistics
Threads: 1,176, Posts: 16,292, Members: 241, Games: 71

We started with a site, but slowly came to realise that with the back-end we were using (Cute News), it wasn't going to work out and so the site closed a few months ago to work on version 2. I'm currently trying to get Mambo and vBulletin3 to use the same user table from the database, but it's proving to be harder than I'd hoped.
Oblivian knight; you have a new private message! :) please read, tnx.

From around 1,000 users a year ago to over 3,300 now... coming up to 2 years online when we will run what we call our "3 years live awards"... we ran them at 6 and 12 months and they were a grat success....

I am pleased with how my site is doing.

The board I manage went from 17,000 members to about 8,000 members. Alot of zero posters! It definitely was time for a fresh member count.

I always wonder what happens with the threads & members when a board doesn't appear to make it? Or a new project is started? I always hope they contact me to merge their community with ours to help us grow :)