Why did you create your forum?

[Martee]

Why did you create the forum or site that your currently run? I created my old site simply because I had helped run a student forum before but after it went downhill I decided to start my own simply because I was naieve back then and I thought that I could turn it into something brilliant quickly due to the lack of student forums I have seen around. Obviously I was wrong but it was also that 'thrill' of running your own forum.

What about you?

 

[flame]

basically because i thought i could do a better job. i was on sky forums and there were several problems foremost of which was the unexplained random deletion of threads for no apparent reason. there is nothing more annoying than being in the middle of a good debate only to have it disappear.

i opened a small site with the promise of no deletions and had a small number of regular posters - when sky closed i ended up with 3/4 of their membership and made it up as i went along.

i did close that because of issues with forumotion including believing they were going to take the domain back or charge for it (their charges are daylight robbery) and tried moving everything to a new domain which failed for a number of reasons. however i was able at last minute to extract my successful domain from forumotion and it has just and just propagated to my paid host - so i will be relaunching

 

[xpl0iter]

I was bored of blogging and I always loved forums!
So thought of starting one and started this with Sam who obviously had lots of experience with forum compared to me!

 

[Kefka]

I think many of us started a forum out of our own passion and interest, not because we set out to make big money or do big things but it was fun and easy.

 

[Cory]

It satisfies me to share my wealth of knowledge and build/manipulate features with coding.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I wanted to have a community that I was in control of to express my interests and share it with like minded people. On places like Discord or Facebook Groups, you're not in full control of your community and they can be removed at any time whether it's from guidelines changing or the platform shuts down. Plus you can customize a forum, with themes and graphics and you can't do that in a Facebook group or Discord server.

 

[Nomad]

I created my first forum as a hangout for my blog writers (I was running a multi author blog). The forum was a platform to discuss writing ideas, site issues, etc. When I created my first stand alone forum, I created it to make money. Since I was making money form my blog, I though I could also make money with forums

 

[Dilip]

I like to learn, and the best way to do it is by sharing knowledge. My forum is all about learn, help and teach. I chose AdminWeb because I like Webmaster stuff.

 

[Shawn Gossman]

I create forums based on passions.

I used to create one for everything I got into. I overwhelmed myself and got burned out. I left the forum world for years after that.

Nowadays, it has to be something I'm super passionate about.

I have many other websites (mainly blogs) that are earning me a profit. They've become a secondary income and are now businesses, most being registered LLCs. So, those get priority and the few forums I have are there many for fun.