In my 17 month old forum www.webcosmoForums.com we have 10,000+ threads now. Current stats is: Threads: 10,006, Posts: 82,342, Members: 3,529, Active Members: 1,205 I think i was lucky to have lot of nice members who love forum and help it grow everyday. Like to thank you all.
Love your forum! registering now, btw, got any tips on how you got it started (first 100 members?) this always puzzled me and been hardest part when opening a forum.
The secret is you have to create a group of people who can help you at the beginning. Hope that helps
I haven't looked at that to be honest. I think most part of SE traffic are lurkers, although prospective members.
It's a good milestone but really your forums is not that popular. Total members that have visited the forum in the last 24 hours: 80 I also see dead forum categories that imho should be removed. Like the Coldfusion and Apache Server subforums. But overall it's a nice looking site and hopefully you'll continue to see it grow.
VERY WELL DONE GOOD JOB! tell me your secret lol.. 3000 posts on my forum but growing wish i had as many as you
Congrats, 10,000 threads is a great milestone. My largest forum reached that years ago. Unfortunately, my motivation has tapered off and it is reflected by the current activity of my forum. Be sure to balance the time you spend on your forum so that you do not get burnt out - because when your motivation stops the forums wheels stop rolling. Cheers, Andrew
Secret is ongoing devotion for it. For me its kind of easy to put time on it, because my work for living is similar.
Today we made 90,000 posts in the forum. Thats starting from April 2008. Its really fun to work on the forum, and watch it grow day by day slowly.