Want to re-try for my an forum... tips needed

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Hi again. As you know my previous forum was utter fail with an fail subject but this time i have an idea to made it general lke WP but not oriented to autism ad i'm good here. I wonder how forums can be successful? any tips? Take note that i have ZERO friends for help me. DO it's better to give up or try my chance. How i can promote it beside Google and Bing? Any free promotion i can do?




LANGUAGE DILEMMA

as you know my english sucks a little for grammars and all. I'm an french user but i know english forums have more chances to success. On other hand french is easier to communicate with for me.



BOARD TYPE DILEMMA

Which type of board is better? Ay suggestions. I want one that have sao many options likew move an post, lock an post ect...Last time i used phpbb and liked it

Thanks

Why don't you make a French only forum?

As I mentioned when you attempted your last forum, the most difficult thing is getting people to join. You need a critical mass of membership before other members will join and it can easily be a catch-22 situation that you don't have enough members posting in the first place to make the site interesting enough to attract more members.

In my opinion you need two things:

1. A damn good idea for an original forum. I'd guess that most special interest forums already exist, so this is likely to be extremely difficult. Sites such as Facebook already cater for just general socialising.

2. Lots of friends or people who you can attract by whatever means to kick-start the forum into being active enough to attract members.

Personally I like the idea of a bilingual French / English forum. I'm English living in France but while I can speak and read French reasonably well I'm too lazy to join French forums where I would be compelled to write in French. However, there are lots of language learning sites out there such as Lang-8.

Why do you want to create a forum anyway?

simply for get my own communauty. For number 2 that my big big problem that brakes me