Scriptbloggers

Ok, Finally a weekend and I got the time to start thinking about what my done and undone projects are.

I already mentioned about httpforum in my previous post so here is the story…

… Checking site and domain market is one of my addictions everyday and one day this beautiful domain name grabbed my attention so I bought it at BIN, seconds after the auction started and 2 other people placed their standby offer immediately after me, so it proved the potential of this name.
I couldn’t believe I got it with such a reasonable price.

Immediately started searching for a good forum script and finally ended up with IPB and I think it was my first mistake as I could have purchased VB with better support, more plugins and nicer skins. Anyway it was my first forum experience and my quick research wasn’t accurate enough as I was too excited and just wanted to launch it.Anyway I think within 3-4 days the board was up but during the initial board setup I did my second mistake by creating too many forums on it. Then I purchased some paid posting packages, started a limited budget ad campaign on Adbrite and put a text links on my signature on other forums and the forum became active getting more and more members and posts everyday.

After around 3 months the result wasn’t bad, $3-4 per day from Adsense with good number of active members.

Everything was getting better till I went to a vacation for around 40 days on Dec. 2006 till Jan. 2007 !

When I came back I faced a frozen forum !

There were barely new posts since 10 days after my departure, even no spam post and the reason was a problem showing up in the login process causing members not to be able to login.

Anyway since then till now the forum is almost dead in term of posting but pretty active in getting new members without any advertisement ! It’s getting 10-15 new members everyday but close to nobody seems to have interest in posting., maybe 2-3 a week.

I know I can send a mass mail but I really want to gather all my ideas, change the forum script, skin and structure and then notify members by sending the mass mail but I believe there should be an incentive to make people prefer it over the others and this is what I need to think about.

What are the features or incentives people like, that can’t be found on other big forums ?

Comment, ideas and suggestions are really appreciated.

Sorry for spelling and other mistakes as it’s almost 1:30 AM. and I’m writing with closed eyes.