Admin Well-being You're older. You're wiser. You're probably an old fart 😂

[joelr]

Many of us have been running forums for ten (or more!) years now.

How have your attitudes and perspectives changed towards managing your forum?

For myself, I'm definitely:
- Much more mellow in responding to members and jumping in to problems
- Much more selective and cautious in spending money on customizations
- It's much less of my personal identity. I have a fulfilling work career, a house, a family, etc.
How about you?

 

[Nomad]

I created my first forum about 7 years ago but I have been running forums regularly since 4 years. I do not think I have grown as a forum owner all these days, I am still confused about what is the purpose of running forum. When I started making money was my main concern because I was earning form blogs and I thought I could also earn from forums, but it is not happening. Now, I am mainly trying to build an audience but sadly that is also not working.

 

[JoshB]

I'm more in the camp of being more conscious of the cost of addons or themes as it has to truly wow me from the onset. Steering more into what can I do with the basic feature sets currently available as I know forums will not be profitable for a long time, if at all.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I'm more active on my current forums than I ever was on my older ones. I know better tricks to promote my forums as well and I don't let numbers bother me as much as they used to.

 

[Cory]

I don't manage my forum for fame or resentment of the past, but genuinely because I like to help people and provide them with resources for their forum. I also don't care about the statistics as much as it used to be all about those growing numbers.

 

[Tracy]

Not as quick to go "here, take my money" when a new version of something comes out. Nor am I as quick to jump on installing a new release of software until others have been down the bloody road of testing it.
I also do not tend to put up with as much BS as I used to from developers . I'm getting older and have less time on this mud ball (and that's reflected by so many of my class-mates passing, some which hit pretty hard) so I'm less inclined to do the ass-kissing that some do to stay in the good graces of them.
For the site... it remains being ran as it started... for my joy. None of my sites were ever party of my "identity"... they were reflections of things I enjoy(ed) doing at the time.
Would I like for my site to take off... sure. Will I quit running it if it doesn't.. doubtful as it will always give me somewhere to post my content in a format I want.