How to get members?

[pushkar1206]

Nowadays, facebook & linkedin are drawing people attention to their groups and people love to use them. Facebook has almost all types of groups and anyone can start his own group there. How can forums survive over the web? My friends run forums but no new active members. Members come and go.

How is your experience?

 

[joroom]

Discussions in forums usually are still much more organized. There is also the anonymity option that is not usually available in Facebook.

 

[Bryan]

I find a van, some rope and Chloroform quite useful but others seem to use the phrase "content is key".

 

[joroom]

I find a van, some rope and Chloroform quite useful

I tried this before... but you know... people these days might not look at it in a very cool way.

 

[gforce]

Part of it is building a dependency. My forum is very young, but moving github instructions and wiki support to the forums. If it’s very general, it’s hard to maintain people.

 

[pushkar1206]

What about programming niche

 

[gforce]

What about programming niche

It could work, it's just all about how you get people locked in to use, plus being easy on the eyes. People want to overdazzle their forums and it just has to be clean.

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

you dont need members, member need you!