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I think everything centres around your forum niche. Each niche have an expected age range that are most likely going to be interested in it and that's where you need to focus your content and its marketing.
Personally, I prefer Google analytics because they give a much better details but if I must have another alternative, Cloudflare analytics is quite good too.
I'm not so familiar with Matomo but I'm going to look into it.
Personally, I don't buy the idea of asking to submit ID to the admin to run a background check is necessary. I wouldn't agree to it and I don't think anyone smart would either for what reason? What's my benefit for using the forum that's going to warrant submitting my ID to a total stranger?
This is something that can fuel your passion to make sure you get back to such group. I've had a nasty experience too where I was racially abused and even told that English language isn't my mother language. Mehn, there are lots of crazy folks out in the world.
Well, if it's a positive feedback, I'm very sure that more than just a single member would be the one to point it out.
As long as it's something good that's going to benefit the forum, I think it should be adopted.
I helped to promote a forum where I'm not the owner but a staff - Community Manager on my Facebook group with over 2k users. Hopefully, there will be some sign ups from the group.
No matter what reason they have for doing it, I don't like it one bit. It made me quit using a particular forum for overdoing it. It was so bad I even get logged out when I'm still online and open in the forum's page.
Firefighters have a big job role and responsibilities in the community. It doesn't matter if they are volunteers or not, making sure the right people who are fit for the job are taken is necessary because of the nature of their job.
It's a very serious annoying thing to face all the time, I don't like dealing with it. I don't experience being signed out regularly but it happens once in a while.
I've had an experience with some forums where after creating a new account with both username and password, when you want to login, you can't use your username but only email. It's very common with forums powered by Invision Community software.
This is actually the problem with some people. They can't take what they give without wailing. I had an experience once. I can't remember the whole details now but I can recall being insulted. I told the guy he insulted me and should apologise but he told me that's not an insult. I said alright...
Personally, I don't like it when it's forced on users. I don't think I've ever read or seen it in any forum's TOS that it will be required for them to do it every month or thereabout.
Don't get me wrong, it's a good thing but I love being the person who chooses to enable it from my profile...
When it comes to the information you're getting from forum users, it feels so much different because how closer you feel with those giving their personal knowledge on what you're asking about. It's not like a random thing you find online without talking with the person who put it out there.
Wasting my time on what I know I can't give my 100% is a no no for me which was why when I found myself in that position with trying to carry everything along with my forum back then, I had to give it up and move on.
I'm very much still open to running another forum in the future. Now, I have...
I wouldn't really know if I'm going to sell or not until I have a forum that I'm managing currently. I used to have one which I didn't sell when I couldn't keep up with running it, maybe because I never got any offers for it.
It's just like Cam of FP, we do talk well from time to time. He would never sell FP for any price because of his sentimental attachment to it. It's even more difficult to sell FP on his own because it's now being owned by 2 person - him and Malcom.
You're so right about how political discussion can get out of hand so bad. Personally, I try as much as possible to avoid getting involved with it especially in politics that doesn't concern me.
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