I guess the reason I bring this up is that it seems odd to re-create
what already exists.
But for a forum to be of value, it needs regular visitors to keep the
discussion flow rolling. So if you divide it, then it is possible to
dip below the threshold and peter out into oblivion.
The australian forums are the primary forums right now. I would much
rather see energy put to them than to start up yet more forums and get
more fragmentation.
My forums (permies.com) started before I knew about the australian
forums. And I created them mostly to reduce the number of emails I
was getting from people asking me about all sorts of horticultural and
homesteading stuff. As the forums grew, I separated "the community"
from my personal rant space.
It is an accident that there are two large forum sites now. Frankly,
I cannot think of any great philosophical differences between the two
other than one is heavy on aussies and the other is heavy on yanks.
I guess what I'm trying to do is to dissuade you from introducing
another forum.
I suppose that if there are things that you don't like about the other
two (too much fluff; too much hostility; too stupid; too hard to use
...), then, well, yeah, intentionally creating a new forum makes good
sense.
While this list has 923 members, the forums at permies.com currently
has 5012 members. For the month of october, the forums at permies.com
had 29,150 unique visitors - the difference being that there are a lot
of people that read and don't post.
(we've actually had over 25,000 member accounts, but I've deleted most
of the accounts under suspicion of them being spam accounts)
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