Doing the Unthinkable :P

BamaStangGuy · Aug 19, 2014

Andy R said: ↑

I think you are over thinking the whole platform issue and should try to put that energy into other facets of running your community. Constant switching is going to cause some members to get frustrated. Often the conversions don't pull over notification settings so people might not be getting notices like they were hoping, etc. Each conversion is going to require some in post clean up like the @Username stuff that's left over in this post.

Sure you might gain a little feature here or there but the most used function of most forums is simply replying to threads and even the worst software usually is decent at that. Your site looks nice, it's got plenty of activity. I think your time is better spent on building great link bait and reaching out to other sites to get them to post back. Another great use of time is continuing your successful work at building relationships with your members and asking them to help you spread the word and get links back. There is a famous expression, "It's not the arrow, it's the indian". You are now leading your tribe an I'd spend less time worried about and focusing on your platform and more time on how to build your audience.

Try to build a double-opt in email list of 10,000 people with feedburner where you can send out high quality content vie RSS to email (like feedburner). That along has grown to surpass my Google traffic on one site only 10 months after I started to collect emails. Try to find successful strategies to find more posters on social networks. All these little things are a lot of hard work but they pay huge dividends over time!
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This. Constantly switching back and forth from forum software is going to just annoy people (and you eventually). While moving to a new software can have benefits and is recommended if you are on something aging and not well supported anymore (like vBulletin 3), its only a small part of what makes a forum successful. I'd really consider Andy's advice here @Superboy

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