So I got Discourse (the forum software your on now) and I don’t know what to make the forum about. I want to make one on Linux but most people don’t even know what Linux is and there are already plenty of Linux forums already so there is a small chance of the forum taking off. I want to make one about yoyos, but that would be “stealing” people off there and that’s not what I want to do. So does anyone know a good topic that there aren’t many forums about already?
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Don’t make a forum just for the sake of it. If you don’t know what to make a forum about, the best thing to do would be to not make one.
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Maybe you could do a yoyo related forum but have it be more specialized for a specific purpose rather than general like this one.
Like specific for videos, trick content, competitions, etc.
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This just doesn’t seem like all that good of an idea to me.
I’m sorry for being a jerk.
But you don’t even have an idea of what you even want the forum to be about. Forums are a lot of work. What happens when you get bored with it?
Why do you want to create a new forum anyhow? Is it so you can learn to create with discourse? Or is it just out of boredom?
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Because I like Discourse and I just like forums. I think forums are fun. I already know that if I make one it probably won’t even take off, but still, it would be fun to make a community…
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You do you man, if you want to start a forum up just go for it once you got an idea going
As long as you know t probably will just be a small niche thing
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Make one for your and your friends to hang out in!
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Totally agree. If you don’t have a clue at to what you want, don’t even start.
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Competitive water drinking.
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I can drink a bottle of water in 2-3 seconds 
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After much thinking I have an idea. How about a stuttering forum? Stuttering isn’t a popular topic to talk about and I don’t think there are many forums (if any) about stuttering. And I stutter so maybe that would be good to make a forum about?
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It’s a unique idea, but I imagine you would probably need to know other people who stutter because the chances of people who stutter landing on a stuttering forum are pretty low, I imagine.
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I know people who stutter… I have like 6 friends that stutter.
And plus I know someone on this forum that stutters.
I find that personal forums are best used to connect with people you already know. Guilds in online games for example are great.
If you just want to create a forum with the hope that random people will stumble upon it through internet searches, that’s not going to work. Unless you create something so unique that a community doesn’t already exist for that subject matter.
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How about a forum specifically about asking others what types of forums could be made?
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Forumception
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@MarkD’s idea is the best. If you can’t get your friends to go there and post — think of it like Discord but less voice chat and chat focused, more sentence and paragraph structured — then anything else is out of the question.
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