How to start up a new community

[netridge]

promotion is key but also remember that you must have some good content, as content is king.

[Dough Boy]

http://custom.simplemachines.org/

That's good for SMF forums, which seem to be growing in popularity as of late. Also, great tips. I've been wanting to start a new forum community, I just haven't decided what topic to center it around yet.

[m1k30rz]

I think its best to start a forum with something you are interested in so you can join in the discussion and constantly bring new things to the forum

[Dough Boy]

I'm interested in too many things, that's the problem. I could go with Sports, Tech, Programming, Game Design and Development, or Video Games.

[zombo]

Theres not so many programming forums out there if you are really good with those you should make a site on programming

[sensovision]

I'm interested in too many things, that's the problem. I could go with Sports, Tech, Programming, Game Design and Development, or Video Games.

unfortunately it seems that having forum which cover very different topics may not work, I'm also interested in many different things and when I've tried to implement them to own forums some boards worked and some didn't simply because there was too little audience with same interests.
Also Zombo is right, I didn't seen too much communities covering programming, and actually topics you've mentioned are all a bit related to each other so I guess you may try to start new community with your interests.

[Dough Boy]

I'm sort of leaning towards a programming forum, since there aren't too many out there. I'm a learning programmer, myself. But creating a community around it hardly requires the knowledge of it.

[sensovision]

But creating a community around it hardly requires the knowledge of it.

indeed, unless you have knowledge yourself or have friends who help you out it would be tricky to do and people may quickly loose interest to such forum. Anyway if you decide to create community, send me a message, I'll try to drop by as I'm programmer and your forum maybe interesting for me.

[Danaldinho]

Thanks alot

[sandeepkumar666]

I like promoting my forum! I enjoy responding to posts and interacting with the members. and phpbhacks.com is great web site