Do you ever see yourself not owning a forum or even participating in one?

[JennyorAlice]

Do you ever see yourself not owning a forum or even participating in one? Why or why not?

 

[Spartan]

I’ll probably always do both to be honest. But I’ll always be on forum as long as they exist.
Always learning something new from being a member and owning one too.

 

[Cory]

I want to own my current forum for as long as I possibly can and as long as the service remains open, but sometimes our interests/hobbies change in life, and we start getting involved with other things that take up our time. I'm sure I'll at least always participate in forums until perhaps I grow very old and it may no longer be an interest of mine.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I can't picture myself being off of forums or not owing a forum. There was a period of time where I didn't own a forum for a while but still participated in forums. I think I just needed a good break from owning a forum to get that spark back.

 

[joelr]

This is an interesting question, but I think the target audience is wrong.

The world, at large, has overehrlmingly spoken. Users are okay building massive communities on hosted platforms, from YouTube to Reddit to Facebook to Discord to Amino Apps to MeWe to all the other online networks. Those group builders don't actually own anything, and they're okay with it.

It's a very small group that wants to actually "own" their own forums.

 

[Spartan]

This is an interesting question, but I think the target audience is wrong.

The world, at large, has overehrlmingly spoken. Users are okay building massive communities on hosted platforms, from YouTube to Reddit to Facebook to Discord to Amino Apps to MeWe to all the other online networks. Those group builders don't actually own anything, and they're okay with it.

It's a very small group that wants to actually "own" their own forums.

There’s definitely a lot of benefits of both. Groups on the platforms you mentioned have a huge advantage in free traffic and can grow very quickly! Great view point, not many people do care about “owning” but more about the audience size.

 

[Empire]

Eight years and still owning and operating, I like to continue as long as I can but that's not always going to be the case and not going to be good for the site at the moment if I keep doing the same thing.

 

[Paul]

Just about done now, tbh. I won't be on any forum in 5 years.

 

[Nomad]

I do not see myself not owning a form or not participating in forums. The first forum I ever participated was a hubpages forum back in 2012. SInce then I have participated in hundreds of forums

 

[Reverie]

There are times where I go inactive from forums due to life. This last break I had was probably my longest I've ever had. I realized how much I missed a community, a group of people who know me relatively well. It's nice to be able to come online and someone be excited to see I'm on as well. I don't see myself necessarily owning my very own forum for quite a while. Mostly because I think the genres I'd do are so over saturated but also not growing right now and I don't have the time to market it how I would want to.