A little encouragement for me today

[addaminsane]

I'm happy about checking my e-mail today and having someone ask me how they register to join aintluck.com and how much it costs. (obviously dosn't cost anything)

The back story behind this is that I put up a forum and social networking system on aintluck.com about 4 days ago, but only had like 3 sign ups. So i temporarily removed the forum until some bigger traffic starts coming.

Whats encouraging is to Know that someone liked my idea and forum design and recognized it as good. What I've learned from this is, that its extremely difficult to start a forum these days, even if it has unique features and looks cool.

[kaus]

A forum is really hard I think to keep people talking. Without stimulating conversations going on daily than why would others join they think it's dead.

I closed my forum about 5 weeks ago, I have posted a not stating that it has been closed temporary however if they would like to join they will be notified when the new one is open.

Each week I am still getting visitors, I am still getting sign ups and oddly enough more people are visiting now than when it was open. I plan to reopen it once I hit 700 signups.

[losercore]

I agree with forums. You need to put a lot of work in them unless your niche is so kick ass it has to have a forum.

Although i do like forums for posting quick news items and updates to information like promotions and stuff like this. SE's like forums that update all the time.

Then again you can use a blog for this too.

Cheers