Moving To A New Forum

[Guybrush]

Freebase -buy a domain, rent some server space, set up a forum and figure out what else we want on there. How much more well drawn should a plan be?

I own a few domains and one of them is a community site with a forum that has now died out (site dedicated to Canterbury), but I still pay for it just to keep my intellectual property. It's not expensive. I have experience with most of this in some way or another and I still think of the technicalities of it as the simple bit. Making a site loaded with customizable functionality is cheap and simple for anyone with a bit of know-how. But getting members is difficult. Forums have been going out of style, especially now that people get their discussion fixes over facebook and the like. Starting a new forum site with a community from scratch is extremely difficult.

So getting site up, easy. Getting members there, difficult. Having failed to attract people to my Canterbury community site, I personally wouldn't want to set up another site until I knew it was going to attract people. Even if it's simple and fun to do, it still takes a lot of time and if at the end noone's interested, then much of it is a waste of effort. That's just how I feel. Plus, what I suggested is that the community work and invest together on making a new site work so then it goes without saying that the technical details would be worked out over time in the community.