What's the best forum you've ever run?

[Shawn Gossman]

Thinking back through all the forums you've operated, what has been the best one?

Think about activity, engagement, and your passion for the niche and topic of the forum.

Is it your current forum or was it a forum from the past?

 

[AWS]

Extreme Visual Basic Forum was my first and in it's heyday it was the top in it's field.

2001 version after I imported the posts from the hacked up quest book script I created when i originally opened Extreme VB.

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The year I sold it.

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It was a nice run at the top. Microsoft EOL'ed Visual Basic and the site died off. I sold out at the right time. I had started the .Net Forum a year earlier because I knew the end was near.