We're half way there if the "/pizza" command is any indication.

If you're using Invision, then you can get an old (but free) version of IPB here.

Wouldn't it kick ass if you could torrent food? :edgartpg:

Chances are if you're using Invision AND having it hosted on their public servers, it's not gonna go anywhere. Sorry.

Harsh but true. I only know one InvisionFree forum that is a success, and that's because it is a community devoted to a game franchise that doesn't have much in the way of other (English) communities. In other words, it has something unique to offer. If they don't have that, most InvisionFree forusm do tend to wither on the vine.

I will see. i want to reply to about 5 diffrent posts here, but im to lazy. :/

Thanks for the tips. i hope it works out. if not, oh well, i still have GFF. ^_^

I'm going to be honest: your forum has no chance to attract more than twenty users, and half of that userbase will probably consist of real-life friends.

It doesn't seem that you have any idea about where you want to go with this. ''Anime/game/whatever'' message boards are dime a dozen. Whether you use free software or pay for vBulletin does not matter, if you don't have anything to offer to your members.

These forums only exist because of Gamingforce Audio, and because they are among the relatively few forums that specialize in VGM. You can't just build a message board out of nothing and expect people to register and post. Sorry. If you make the forum, it will die because of inactivity in a couple of months.

Interesting stuff? Like what, for instance? Do you have any concrete plans?

I don't think that's entirely true, but you have a point.

Like any site that's new and doesn't necessarily pull in users, part of the key to making it grow is to let it grow, but while at the same time seeing that it doesn't die. EleoChan.org isn't massively popular, but it has grown in popularity since I reopened it back in what, April, and from what I've seen it is continuing to grow. But slowly. The difference between bandwidth usage last month and this month is about ~50MB a day. Average hits and visits has increased too, even if by a small amount. I'm up against a massive number of imageboards but if hits keep increasing then it's all good. Until I have to find a dedicated server and pay expenses. That's going to suck ass.

But anyway, the good thing is EleoChan isn't really slowing down or dying at the moment, even if its accelerating at a low rate. And part of the key to this was doing my best to keep it alive when it was getting hardly any hits a day while at the same time not spreading any visitors too thin with more boards than they cared to visit.

I guess a regular forum is different because there's no naked ladies and animated gifs to look at, though, so it would be more difficult, but if you offer up something even remotely desirable like mp3s then you can get more hits. And the Internet only cares about what they can download or what they can fap to.