Struggling

Its too hard for me now a days, despite working in for hours maintaining my forum. Actually its a Webmaster & Technology forum. Online since 2008 and still i am unable to make in anything with the forum. Members come and disappear everyday spent huge money arranged contests still no use. Where i am wrong? I am unable to find errors. What can be the solution. I am mentally pissed at the moment and really lose. Day by day bad thoughts come to sell it up while its like my dream my first ever site i can't consider selling it up. any help?

PS : The forum isn't in my signature its a different one

 

can ya give the link to your forum which wud help me in understanding what actually is going on and give an hounest review.

 

Here you go

 

it took me about 20 seconds to load.
you hardly have any content, seo forum got 15 threads. i can see you haven't put much time adding value to the forum by adding good content. that would be the main reason why its not going anywhere.

 

I am using a brilliant VPS server and its like its giving me some pain in the ass at the moment. My forum was much concentrated over technology later made it for both Webmasters & Technology therefore its bit empty

 

As webcosmo has stated the forum loads really slow (it even didn't load a couple of times for me). Your forum doesn't have a lot of "unique features" by unique I mean content/tools/resources that can't be found elsewhere, without this you'll find yourself losing members to your competitors which offer such content/tools/resources, etc.

An example of what I mean is the forum names and descriptions you've copied from DP, I mean why would anyone visit your forum and use your forum when it's basically a copy of a much larger forum such as DP

Good luck!

 

You are correct, I was lil kid when i did that in 2008 and frankly i didn't changed that since then. A Good Point I am fixing it now

 

Glad I could help, if you do that and add some more unique content to your site, then you should start to see an increase in participation and less struggling

Good luck!

 

Any user generated site will have people come and go. Perhaps your motivation (selling the site) is holding you back.

 

Don't give up hope. It is a competitive world and you have got a lot of time ahead of you. Wait and reap the benefits.

 

1. Visually unappealing and boring
2. I'm always weary of webmaster sites not run by a webmaster.

That's a couple things right there.

 

vBulletin 4 is the slowest/most bloated forum software. That's the main reason why it's slow (unless you want to cut down on the features actually put in).