My site began in Feb. 2004. Up until December 04, we had about 1000 members. In the months that followed, we grew dramatically, to the point where we had 10,000 by June and 20,000 about a week ago. The funny thing is, it's mainly due to word-of-mouth, as the forum isn't listed on yahoo and google for whatever reasons. Still, we've got about 420K posts and over 9000 active members (within the past 30 days), but as you've said, there are forums with hundreds of members but hundreds of thousands of posts!
yea... the amount of members is just bragin rights.. but it does list you higher on sites like big-boards.com ect.. but really its about the posts that make the forum what it is.
My site began in Feb. 2004. Up until December 04, we had about 1000 members. In the months that followed, we grew dramatically, to the point where we had 10,000 by June and 20,000 about a week ago. The funny thing is, it's mainly due to word-of-mouth, as the forum isn't listed on yahoo and google for whatever reasons. Still, we've got about 420K posts and over 9000 active members (within the past 30 days), but as you've said, there are forums with hundreds of members but hundreds of thousands of posts!
See, there's a reason for people to go to your forum and not post a thing. Usually for those forums with only a few hundred members and thousands of posts, the only reason to go there is to join in discussion and such.
You are getting registrations simply to remove the banner (for those who choose to even stay after seeing it, which excludes many people). Once they have registered, they have no incentive to post.
10-01-2005, 12:14 PM
just reached 10,000 members in under a year (8m)
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