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How many forums have you ran at once?

· 7 months ago · 16 replies · 588

Nowadays, you sometimes see some forum owners who don't just own one forum, but they will instead run maybe two or more forums altogether.

Over the years, the most forums I ran at once were 3 at one time, and that was back when I had Chat Addicts and chose to move TV and Gaming away from Chat Addicts and create TV Addicts and Gaming Addicts. Unfortunately, it got too much, and I ended up merging them all back into Chat Addicts.

How many forums have you run at once? Could you run more than that? Do you feel like you could run more if you had ideas for more forums?

16 replies

· 7 months ago

Currently, I am running two forums (one is under construction). I have ran as many as 3 forums at once. However, due to work load I shut one down and continue running two. When I sold one of the twos, I brought back the one that I had shut down.

· 7 months ago

I have up to 4 forums as we speak but it's difficult to keep up with them. Sometimes, they drive me nuts. 🤣 Navigating content creation, moderation and promotion is very overwhelming.

· 1 month ago

Running a multiple forums at once is undeed a serious work. I have try to run several forums before and it nearly killed me because I was so exhausted. The content creation, promotion, and moderation was way too much for one person to handle. I think you need to focus on one forum and make it successful before you think about another one.

· 1 month ago

I was doing that a few months ago. I had 11 of them going. It was too much. I was overwhelmed. The biggest thing was that all the bot traffic was making every website slow, and I didn’t want to have to spend a bunch of money on a dedicated server because forums were being hit the hardest.

Now I have 4, which is still a lot, but that’s where I draw the line. In fact, no more than 5, but trying to keep it under 5, so 4 is enough. One of them is a local forum that doesn’t get a lot of engagement. It’s mainly there to post stuff on a calendar, so I don’t really promote it that much.

· 1 month ago

Oh my! I’ve never had more than one forum at a time. I already have a blog that I’ve had for 7 years and I can’t imagine running more than 1 forum at a time since I already have that going.

· 1 month ago

I’ve created two forums so far, but I’ve only run one at a time. Managing a forum takes a lot of time and energy. You will have to create content and keep the community active by inviting people to post. I don’t think I’d have enough time to properly manage multiple forums simultaneously.

· 1 month ago

I’m currently running the most I’ve ever had right now I am running about 6, I have more than that but I honestly haven’t logged into a few of them in a very long time. One is a gaming forum that is still up on Proboards right now, one is Glitch Talk (which I was in the process of rebranding it into a discussion forum for Glitch the animation company) and I just opened another one up that I need to finish setting up before I promote it. I think it’s fine to have multiple ones if you can manage them, but if you feel like you can’t it’s also fine to try and either see if someone else wants to take them over or merge them if you can.

· 1 month ago

I always try to run only one at a time. Sometimes I have test forums to run tests but not really launch them.

· 1 month ago

Just this one but I also run two blogs.

· 1 month ago

Yes I too, only have one forum to fully focus on.

I’ve also, just started & created my very first blog ever.

Forums are quite hectic to organize discussions, moderate, & review users. I don't see myself running more at the moment.

I’d rather be doing great in one thing than poorly multi-tasking. But yes, maybe in the future for the sake challenge? I may try it out.

· 1 month ago

You could possibly run more than one forums. This depends largely on your schedule. This is a very important thing. If you are not able to manage more than one forums, then you could possibly hire a moderator who could help you manage the forum. It might not be that easy to run a forum. This is specifically true when your forum gains popularity and grows more by the passage of time.

· 1 month ago

I suppose it depends how much free time you have but there’s a serious question as to whether both forums could be merged into one super forum and then you’ve got everyone focused on growing one community huge!

· 1 month ago

On Sep 14, 2026, Gizmo Borden said:
Just this one but I also run two blogs.

I run another forum now but that one takes less work.

· 1 month ago

On Sep 27, 2026, Jigsaw said:
I suppose it depends how much free time you have but there’s a serious question as to whether both forums could be merged into one super forum and then you’ve got everyone focused on growing one community huge!

I merged three of my forums to create Thee Zone lol. They were a battlebots forum, a video game challenge forum, and a entertainment forum. All on three different software too! It wasn’t too difficult to get the forums merged into one forum thankfully. Now I need to get a new domain for my forum since .zone domains are going up in price again to renew.

· 1 month ago

On Sep 27, 2026, Jigsaw said:
I suppose it depends how much free time you have but there’s a serious question as to whether both forums could be merged into one super forum and then you’ve got everyone focused on growing one community huge!

Merging forum into a big forum is only a good idea when you purchase a huge forum. You could possible merge it into a big forum. However, I would always recommend starting a small forum and then growing it into a really big community. This will eventually create a large forum when more and more members will join the forum and keep your community active. You should not think about merging your forum in case if your forum is showing the signs of growth.

· 1 month ago

Back in the day I would have around 3-6 at a time. It wasn’t until one of them blew up that I had to start focusing on one at a time and now I stick to just one but my max is probably 6 that I was active in if you count inactive then about 20 at one given point. I still have like 5 open right now that I do not touch but still pay for, for the nostalgia of it.

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