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I would argue that the traditional forum developers have too much legacy; they can make incremental changes, but they won't make transformational changes. They have clients from 20 years ago. Where you see the biggest leaps are in the newer platforms like Circle, Kajabi, Mighty making...

Xenforo has the greatest diaspora of casual hobbyist forum owners. Jcink forum owners are probably posting their support on Jcink; phpBB owners are posting their support questions on phpBB, etc. Xenforo users, on the other hand, are widespread. As long as folks like Shawn and Cedric and...

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The old guard These are users who insist that forums are just fine, when the rest of the world has moved on to Reddit, Discord, YouTube and yet they still insist that forum technology is fully appropriate for the modern world.

When I bought Bizdustry, Alex and I were very clear about what we could and couldn't do. We had a couple of back and forth, and it was a very reasonable conversation, and it helped that we both explained what we cared about and why so we wouldn't step on each other's toes. He really wanted...

What do you have for sale?? JK I wouldn't really call my strategy as buying out the forum competition; it was more of buying in and rapidly establishing a presence in a way that organic would have taken forever. When I did my strategic overview of forum administration, the reality is that...

You literally cannot post too much when you're up against @Shawn Gossman 😆

No, we shouldn't! Every public page in our community is potentially a front-door. In my main community, my homepage is maybe the fourth or fifth most popular page. The homepage is actually more for people searching directly for the brand or returning users. It's not for true guests, which...

Content that makes you think. Content that makes you pause before replying. Content that teaches you and expands what you know.

You should go Google your answer 😆 On a serious note, Im very mixed. I've seen many instances when the same question has been asked over and over again, and the answer has been stated and confirmed. In this case, searching for the answer is a correct and valuable pathway to self-answer your...

I've yet to see a forum be truly self moderating. Would love to see a real example At the end of the day, the forum is hosted and paid by someone. And that someone is the one who gets to make and enforce the rules.

I don't think it's about Bluesky itself being popular, I think it's more about X being unpopular 🙃

This is entirely contextual to the timeliness of the thread. If it's an evergreen topic, keep the conversation going. It's okay if they post a year later! One of my most favorite things is going through the decade of conversation on Admin Junkies and seeing how timeless some of the...

This is one of those situations where you should exercise a little more control and thought before hitting the back button. From a design perspective, no forum software should actually make the ban button super easy. It should be a part of a menu, there could be a confirmation, etc. but...

Do you mean pay for custom software programming to extend or add custom features?

It might be the opposite, which is overbearing moderation

I don't get this, what do you mean?

In 50 years, online groups will continue to exist. This could be augmented reality, digital worlds, meta worlds, etc. But forums, as a specific type of technology (discussion platform), are going to be replaced by better and more graphical modes.

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I am the kind of forum admins that makes a contextual decision. Did that user sexually solicit any underage users on my forum? Did that user act in any untoward manner toward other users? Did that user break any of the actual terms of use of my site? Did that user actually have any hint of...