It's really hard getting people moved from one platform that "everyone" uses to a new other one, unless the have some really exclusive features that immediately switches people over. I tried launching a forum a year or so back, for energy drink collectors. There's been an amazing Swedish one, the community (when people still were active, no one is today, most people quit or are on facebook now doing trades) was wonderful to hang out with. Even though I still don't collect too seriously, especially not doing international trades, a community would have been nice around a common interest. I tried doing some promotion, keep the site up and updated, yet there was only a handful of people signing up. A few posted a bit, but after the 1st week, most people never visited the site again, nor signed up. After about a month without any sign ups, I killed it. I looked at the Swedish one, that pace was slow in the beginning, but they were at least somewhat active on there.22Ryann wrote:No one was supporting it, so i haven't renewed the hosting. For some reason people think a forum post is better..
Too bad the site did not become what you expected
