Anyone running a finance forum?
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Sim
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I have a few finance related forums - mostly targeted at an Australian audience.
One is a broad investment related forum, currently running vB 3.8.x but I'm working on migrating the site to XF over Christmas.
A second is real estate specific - again running vB v3.8.x with plans to migrate to XF once I'm happy with the setup of that first site. This site is very busy and has a very active moderation team, so I am expecting to possibly need to code a few add-ons to help the moderators do what they need to do. I'm using the first forum as a testing ground since it isn't as busy.
A third site is associated with a funds management analysis tool I built using vB v3.8.x as a platform - this will also be migrated to XenForo at some point when I find the time. The forum is mostly just used for technical support and discussion of site functionality rather than being a destination in its own right.
I have a small sharemarket based discussion forum already running on XenForo - but that's not yet open to the public, it started life as a private discussion for investors in a privately owned company that I was involved in, but I plan on expanding its focus and opening it up to the public at some point.
One is a broad investment related forum, currently running vB 3.8.x but I'm working on migrating the site to XF over Christmas.
A second is real estate specific - again running vB v3.8.x with plans to migrate to XF once I'm happy with the setup of that first site. This site is very busy and has a very active moderation team, so I am expecting to possibly need to code a few add-ons to help the moderators do what they need to do. I'm using the first forum as a testing ground since it isn't as busy.
A third site is associated with a funds management analysis tool I built using vB v3.8.x as a platform - this will also be migrated to XenForo at some point when I find the time. The forum is mostly just used for technical support and discussion of site functionality rather than being a destination in its own right.
I have a small sharemarket based discussion forum already running on XenForo - but that's not yet open to the public, it started life as a private discussion for investors in a privately owned company that I was involved in, but I plan on expanding its focus and opening it up to the public at some point.
Thanks. I should have been more specific. I know there are many personal finance sites out there but more curious on the "high finance" ones.
jonsidneyb
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You will have to offer quite a bit of education I would guess. Net Present Value, Term Intermediation Problems, Efficient frontier, Velocity of Money, issues with IRR, and on and on and on.
Brandon Sheley
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ditto, reddit solves everything
Milezteg
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I run a stock forum but it's still running on vBulletin. I have a lot of time invested in custom plugins like stock quotes, and a user Paypal donation system. I'd love to move to Xenforo but I'm worried about porting the plugins and theme :/
Morgain
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I had the same problem. I paid a dev to code the addons and he created a demo based on the existing VB database. When it was ready he just redid the install on that database.
agison
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I have checked a few finance / investment related forums, but it seems very few of them have a lot of members or a lot of activity.....
Not sure why ?
They focus money, not forum
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