How many hours a day are you online in your forum?

Discussion in 'Managing Your Online Community' started by webaficionado, Mar 30, 2013.

  1. webaficionado

    webaficionado Regular Member

    Joined:
    Aug 10, 2012
    Messages:
    149
    Likes Received:
    57
    Location:
    Argentina
    Look above. That's the question.

    I'm kidding. How many hours, in average, do you spend logged in in your site daily? What do you use that time for? Posting? Coding? Moderating?
     
    Bill Hughes and Brandon like this.
  2. maksim

    maksim Regular Member

    Joined:
    Mar 3, 2013
    Messages:
    159
    Likes Received:
    91
    Location:
    Dirty Jersey
    Varies. Some days 5 hours, others none.

    While growing the forum it would take a good amount to reply to posts to get the activity up.
     
  3. petertdavis

    petertdavis Old Timer

    Joined:
    Dec 23, 2009
    Messages:
    142
    Likes Received:
    92
    Location:
    New England
    12+ hours a day on average. Sometimes as much as 18 hours, sometimes as few as 2 hours.
     
  4. Brandon

    Brandon Regular Member

    Joined:
    Jun 1, 2009
    Messages:
    6,602
    Likes Received:
    1,706
    Location:
    Topeka, Kansas
    First Name:
    Brandon
    I'm usually connected to my forum all day via tapatalk, as far as sitting in front of the computer with my forum open it's generally about 5 hours a day.
    If I didn't have work to do it would be much higher..lol
     
    2dub likes this.
  5. Neal

    Neal Regular Member

    Joined:
    Apr 10, 2012
    Messages:
    9
    Likes Received:
    8
    Location:
    Burnley
    I'm sat in front of my forum most of the day these days (And night) as i'm now working from home. It's not that the site is interesting more that it just looks great being on XenForo software

    :evillaugh:
     
    Big al and Brandon like this.
  6. Jessi

    Jessi Regular Member

    Joined:
    Feb 2, 2012
    Messages:
    240
    Likes Received:
    94
    I really don't know. I'm technically there pretty much all day, every day. I'm always checking in and staying on top of things. Even when I'm not actively doing something there, I might be working on backlinks or something related anyway. I do lots of other things, too, but it's just sort of mixed in all over the place.
     
    Big al, Neal and Brandon like this.
  7. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

    Joined:
    Aug 14, 2009
    Messages:
    3,219
    Likes Received:
    823
    I spend a good amount of time on my forum on a daily basis. Sometimes up to 12 hours in a day. That all depends if I'm taking a nap or anything that day. I love spending time on my forum and the one that I work for.
     
    Neal and Brandon like this.
  8. Martin W

    Martin W Regular Member

    Joined:
    Oct 31, 2012
    Messages:
    144
    Likes Received:
    38
    Location:
    England, UK
    It depends what I have to do during the day - what my job and family need, ect... However when I am on the computer I tend to have my communities open and every so often check and do some work when needed.
     
  9. iTalk

    iTalk Regular Member

    Joined:
    Apr 2, 2013
    Messages:
    9
    Likes Received:
    2
    Location:
    England
    I like to spend at least 3 hours a day going through each forum, posting new threads, replying to posts and clearing out spam. I would like to spend more time on them, but unfortunately there isn't enough hours in the day.
     
  10. BlckBrd103

    BlckBrd103 Regular Member

    Joined:
    Mar 14, 2013
    Messages:
    46
    Likes Received:
    14
    Location:
    United States
    Depends on the day, usually around 3-6 hours per day. I usually spend it monitoring the sites performance though, I try to catch bugs or any type of issues at the source and as soon as it's detected. If a user finds something wrong with my board, I want to be able to ensure the issue will be resolved shortly and thank the user for notifying the staff of it, then I want to have it fixed very quickly. Why else would the owner be online for so long out of the day on a small but steadily growing forum?
     
    Brandon likes this.
  11. nav0413

    nav0413 Regular Member

    Joined:
    Apr 9, 2013
    Messages:
    7
    Likes Received:
    0
    8 or 9 hours a day.
     
  12. Bill Hughes

    Bill Hughes Regular Member

    Joined:
    Dec 30, 2012
    Messages:
    39
    Likes Received:
    13
    Location:
    Baltimore, MD, USA
    On my forum: maybe a hour. Doing projects regarding my forum, anywhere from 3-5hrs on most days. Sometimes give or take 1 - 2 hours. ;-)
     
  13. bauss

    bauss Regular Member

    Joined:
    Jun 16, 2012
    Messages:
    335
    Likes Received:
    74
    I'd say roughly around 10 hours a day, even if I'm not posting or working on my forum. I'm usually always online, reading new posts, and refreshing the page to see who's online.

    I love my forum, so I'm addicted to it.
     
  14. ConfabIt

    ConfabIt Regular Member

    Joined:
    May 25, 2013
    Messages:
    177
    Likes Received:
    26
    Location:
    England
    A couple of hours. I just end up refreshing constantly and looking at what members do. The first couple of days were bad because I was on the forum all day up until about 3am, because I worry too much about it dying.
     
    Big al likes this.
  15. Zerth

    Zerth Regular Member

    Joined:
    May 25, 2013
    Messages:
    42
    Likes Received:
    8
    Location:
    UK
    Hmm, my forum isn't that active at the moment, but I go on there everyday for about 2 hours just to add more content, post a few things, and add new features so that it can attract much more members.
    But going to need to spend more time if I want my forum to suceed :P
     
  16. Big al

    Big al Regular Member

    Joined:
    May 14, 2013
    Messages:
    1,093
    Likes Received:
    415
    Location:
    OZ
    Probably too many hours a day. As I am retired, it is not a problem for me to spend a lot of time online.

    Probably about twelve hours a day.

    I spend a lot of time tracking scammers as well as spending time with the scammers victims. This can be time consuming. But very worthwhile.
     
  17. andyred

    andyred Regular Member

    Joined:
    May 24, 2013
    Messages:
    165
    Likes Received:
    34
    Location:
    UK
    Most of the day when I'm off work as I'm bust catching up on stuff, replying to posts and adding new threads as well as doing SEO and Social media Promotion.

    But during a work day I have a quick hour in the morning and hour at night to check up on stuff and leave a few replies that I see as important.
     
  18. cpvr

    cpvr Regular Member

    Joined:
    Aug 14, 2009
    Messages:
    3,219
    Likes Received:
    823
    On the weekends I spend time with my girlfriend, so I'm rarely on my community. I just check up on it via tapatalk.
     
  19. Stockgenius

    Stockgenius Regular Member

    Joined:
    May 26, 2013
    Messages:
    13
    Likes Received:
    3
    Location:
    California
    I normally spend about 1 hour on my forum. I will do a few posts and also check for spammers or any threads that seem to cause trouble. The time of the day I log on will vary, so that it does not look like I only post on a certain time. I try not to spend more than an hour, or else I will be come unproductive.
     
  20. Sylvain

    Sylvain Regular Member

    Joined:
    Mar 15, 2013
    Messages:
    140
    Likes Received:
    17
    ummm I spend 2 hour per day, 7 days a week
     

Share This Page