# What should I make a forum about?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768
**Category:** Unrelated Discussion
**Created:** [August 12, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768 "2019-08-12T00:27:03Z")
**Posts on this page:** 18
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### Author:  [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/1 "2019-08-12T00:27:03Z")
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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### Author:  [@anon5341354](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anon5341354)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 12:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/2 "2019-08-12T00:51:01Z")
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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### Author:  [@andy569](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/andy569)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 12:58am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/3 "2019-08-12T00:58:19Z")
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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### Author:  [@twitch77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/twitch77)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/4 "2019-08-12T01:02:08Z")
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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### Author:  [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 1:03am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/5 "2019-08-12T01:03:52Z")
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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### Author:  [@andy569](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/andy569)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 1:06am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/6 "2019-08-12T01:06:20Z")
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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### Author:  [@MarkD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MarkD)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 1:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/7 "2019-08-12T01:27:37Z")
Make one for your and your friends to hang out in!
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/8 "2019-08-12T02:00:40Z")
> [@anon5341354](#):
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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.
Totally agree. If you don’t have a clue at to what you want, don’t even start.
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### Author:  [@BasilThunder](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/BasilThunder)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/9 "2019-08-12T02:15:25Z")
Competitive water drinking.
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### Author:  [@andy569](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/andy569)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/10 "2019-08-12T02:22:04Z")
I can drink a bottle of water in 2-3 seconds ✋
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### Author:  [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/11 "2019-08-12T02:30:35Z")
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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### Author:  [@MoosaK](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MoosaK)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/12 "2019-08-12T02:35:13Z")
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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### Author:  [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/13 "2019-08-12T02:41:44Z")
I know people who stutter… I have like 6 friends that stutter.
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### Author:  [@Evan\_the\_yoyo\_boy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Evan_the_yoyo_boy)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 2:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/14 "2019-08-12T02:42:10Z")
And plus I know someone on this forum that stutters.
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### Author:  [@ClaytonDM](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ClaytonDM)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 5:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/15 "2019-08-12T05:40:46Z")
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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### Author:  [@beeebon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/beeebon)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 5:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/16 "2019-08-12T05:46:21Z")
How about a forum specifically about asking others what types of forums could be made?
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### Author:  [@smileypants707](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/smileypants707)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 5:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/17 "2019-08-12T05:54:57Z")
Forumception
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [August 12, 2019, 10:40pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-should-i-make-a-forum-about/306768/18 "2019-08-12T22:40:59Z")
@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.