roxics
Thu 9th Jun '05, 11:55am
I ran my vBulletin for about 2.5 years. Altogether I ran my community for about 5 years. The topic of the board was filmmaking.
In the end I gave away my database to one of my community members. Converted it to a PHPBB and helped him set it up on his server.
My community had been dying for over a year anyway by that point and I just got tired of running it. The conversation on my old community just felt very forced and it was hard to get a good chemistry between members.
That was about 8 months ago.
Now I'm stuck with a perfectly good vB and I have no idea what to use it for. I don't want to sell it off because I cherish it. But it is an older 2.x owned license and if I started a new board I'm enticed to start fresh with a 3.5 install. But that also means an extra $30 and I realy don't have any idea what the community would focus on.
For the last 8 months I had my VB up on my site ScapeFilms.com but it got something like 2 posts a month there. It felt like a waste to have it installed there with such little use compared to it's former life.
I debated using it as just a way to chat with my real life buddies, but they all use Livejournal for that type of thing and aren't the types who would force themselves to use a messageboard instead.
So I feel like I'm stuck with a perfectly good vb and no idea how to use it.
There are so many communities out there already for the interests I have. many of them already have thousands of members and tens or hundreds of posts a day. But maybe you guys can give me a fresh outlook on things.
Here are some of my interests, maybe you can help me decided.
Filmmaking
Photography
Graphic Art (though I won't be starting one on that, I'm not good enough)
Computers (not interested enough to run a whole community on it)
Screenwriting (kind of goes with filmmaking)
Movies in general
Electronic / World / Industrial music (not interested enough to run a whole community on it)
Sci-Fi
Fantasy/Medieval type stuff (not interested enough to run a whole community on it)
See why I'm stuck. Maybe I'm being to broad.
In the end I gave away my database to one of my community members. Converted it to a PHPBB and helped him set it up on his server.
My community had been dying for over a year anyway by that point and I just got tired of running it. The conversation on my old community just felt very forced and it was hard to get a good chemistry between members.
That was about 8 months ago.
Now I'm stuck with a perfectly good vB and I have no idea what to use it for. I don't want to sell it off because I cherish it. But it is an older 2.x owned license and if I started a new board I'm enticed to start fresh with a 3.5 install. But that also means an extra $30 and I realy don't have any idea what the community would focus on.
For the last 8 months I had my VB up on my site ScapeFilms.com but it got something like 2 posts a month there. It felt like a waste to have it installed there with such little use compared to it's former life.
I debated using it as just a way to chat with my real life buddies, but they all use Livejournal for that type of thing and aren't the types who would force themselves to use a messageboard instead.
So I feel like I'm stuck with a perfectly good vb and no idea how to use it.
There are so many communities out there already for the interests I have. many of them already have thousands of members and tens or hundreds of posts a day. But maybe you guys can give me a fresh outlook on things.
Here are some of my interests, maybe you can help me decided.
Filmmaking
Photography
Graphic Art (though I won't be starting one on that, I'm not good enough)
Computers (not interested enough to run a whole community on it)
Screenwriting (kind of goes with filmmaking)
Movies in general
Electronic / World / Industrial music (not interested enough to run a whole community on it)
Sci-Fi
Fantasy/Medieval type stuff (not interested enough to run a whole community on it)
See why I'm stuck. Maybe I'm being to broad.