How do I grow my forum?

Prata

Sorry if this is the wrong place to ask this, but how do I build more of a community in my forum? It peaked at 22 users but that was the highest it got, since then it's flat lined and is remaining at 0 visits, 0 posts and 0 views.

My forum url is https://automedia.flarum.cloud

How would I get more users onto the forum without being spammy or invasive?

luceos

Prata find out where your niche is active and be involved with them sufficiently to notice you. See if you're allowed to promote your community there, even if it requires (financial) incentive. Then make sure people stay, create a daily discussion with an interesting topic, do events like giveaways, reach out to companies that are active in the same area for long term relationships (to get products for giveaways or who could even end up sponsoring).

There's a lot of information about this topic on the net. I wrote this discussion to list some valuable resources: https://blomstra.community/d/135-feverbees-getting-started-with-community-management

Steve33

Prata How would I get more users onto the forum without being spammy or invasive?

We try to be public everywhere. To do this, we use our RSS feed and post on our Facebook page with #hashtags. This means that a lot of people come to our Flarum. We do the same on Telegram. If you are not interested, you don't subscribe. So it is not spam ;-) However, if you search for our forum-related words, you will find us. Whether on social media or Google.

Otherwise, it is important to create topics that can be discussed.

As a result, we have almost 2000 users within 1 year. Around 700 are active.

TeamF

Prata

Our concept:

You need a niche for your topic. If there is too much competition, it probably doesn't make sense.
Convince your community that open source and data protection are important. We also have no advertising
Bring interesting topics every day and encourage people to participate
Hold events. Online raffles or local events where people can meet in real life
Get newspapers / TV to report on the platform.
Spread your topics using SEO or RSS feeds.
Get a prominent name and keep it on all other platforms. Ideally with daily news (YT, Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Telegram, etc)

We startet with Freeflarum an had to move to our own server because we went to big 🙂

akrimony12

Steve33 What is your forum name or URL, if you could share?

TeamF

Steve33 To do this, we use our RSS feed and post on our Facebook page with #hashtags. This means that a lot of people come to our Flarum.

ernestdefoe Should be gone now.

ernestdefoe

@Prata people are gonna be less inclined to sign up if they can’t see any actual content and are required to signup in order to see what your site has to offer. That’s just my opinion and how I am when I visit a site. I want to explore the content to see if I actually want to join.