The Challenges of Niche Forums

[Jason]

Some niche forums have difficulty getting posters, much more so than general chat ones. Well, for instance, if you have a gaming forum, you could get some posts about gaming, but pretty soon the well dries up. People simply haven't had enough experience with games to post a lot of stuff.

Well, how to deal with this situation?

 

[Busybee]

Yes, having special niches make it harder to run a forum. I run a technology forum, I constantly post new blogs and threads relating to the latest developments, this fuels discussion among my members and users and they become more engaged with the site. I also post links for the product, this, in turn, generates additional revenue for the website.

 

[BrolySSJ]

Some niche forums have difficulty getting posters, much more so than general chat ones. Well, for instance, if you have a gaming forum, you could get some posts about gaming, but pretty soon the well dries up. People simply haven't had enough experience with games to post a lot of stuff.

Well, how to deal with this situation?

I think that in the initial stages that it is going to be very difficult however this is why they are able to offer posting packages in order to entice people to come and post in the forum and as there are more people posting the level of engagement increases and this is what causes people to stick around as well.

 

[Kane]

I have always rn niche forums, and my experience tells me that is it not easy to build a user base and activities if you have niche forums. The activities slow down in the long run. However, niche forums are good when it comes to market and bring traffic because you know where to promote your forums.