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  1. JoelR

    Posting repeated topics (reply amounts)

    On a serious note, I think this could be a valid strategy if you're looking to drive engagement for the sake of engagement. Its great at driving more posts. However ... My critique of this strategy is that you will find yourself rehashing volatile topics (IPS vs XF! XF versus IPS!), which...
  2. JoelR

    Is Invision worth its price? Why or why not?

    The open ended Pages application, where you can build databases of content such as articles, dictionaries, recipe sections, etc. is very powerful and doesn't quite have the same match in other platforms. IPS is an acquired taste. They don't pretend to cater to the freewheeling legacy forum...
  3. JoelR

    Posting repeated topics (reply amounts)

    Did you ... Recycle this topic?? 🫢
  4. JoelR

    nodeBB - it's not for supper

    It's really smooth on mobile, nice job! I haven't come across many NodeBB so it's great to try it out in person. Have you been able to check into the settings to see if they offer anything interesting?
  5. JoelR

    AAF got a gift yesterday!

    You got a forum for sale?? 😄
  6. JoelR

    F*** You!

    One of the core principles of people management: publicly praise, privately critique. There's no reason to make personnel issues public, unless there is a strategic reason or value to the community to make certain actions known.
  7. JoelR

    Leaving Spam on your forum: yay or nay?

    Hi, We already moderate the community for spam every day; there are users who are caught as part of the registration and we also have staff members who catch spam when they can. I appreciate your thoughts, but I was simply providing a helpful point that we appreciate members who use the report...
  8. JoelR

    Leaving Spam on your forum: yay or nay?

    If you see any spam at Admin Junkies, please use the report function! It helps a lot to trigger a search for other spam.
  9. JoelR

    Self-Hosting vs. Managed Hosting: Which is the Smarter Choice for Forums?

    I think a better question to re-frame the scenario for someone like you (and myself and most of the community admins here) is, if you were to start an online group for the first time without any prior experience, would you go self hosted or managed? Most of us look at this question with 10+...
  10. JoelR

    Is Strict Moderation Killing Forums or Keeping Them Alive?

    Is this algorithmic or manual? How is reputation and trust conferred, meaning, is it done by other users giving rep points and likes?
  11. JoelR

    The Rise and Fall of Forums: Can They Compete with Social Media in 2024?

    Sure, but are those users actually going to independent forums or are they simply migrating to new social platforms? Are they actually coming back to forums?
  12. JoelR

    The Rise and Fall of Forums: Can They Compete with Social Media in 2024?

    This is an existential question about the future of community building. If you look at where development efforts are being targeted (and I mean this broadly across all community development, not legacy forums), there is still a market for online communities. But they're consolidating around...
  13. JoelR

    Self-Hosting vs. Managed Hosting: Which is the Smarter Choice for Forums?

    There's a philosophical point about self hosting which is that you control more. You control the server, php, MySQL, the ability to host other sites, when and how often you conduct backups, your ability to tinker. There's a sense of greater ownership and control. One of the philosophical...
  14. JoelR

    Is Traditional Forum Software Dying?

    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...
  15. JoelR

    Adopting Ideas from Other Forums

    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...
  16. JoelR

    Running out of content ideas

    Subscribe to experts. Subscribe to newsletters, substack, YouTube channels, and more. I have an email inbox dedicated to ideation for Admin Junkies and it's overflowing with amazing advice on community building from experts like Feverbee, Community Roundtable, Rosieland and more.
  17. JoelR

    What do you hate about forum software in general?

    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.
  18. JoelR

    Buying out the forum competition

    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...
  19. JoelR

    Buying out the forum competition

    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...
  20. JoelR

    Setting posting Goals to encourage posting??

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