lorax - 2:57 pm on May 28, 2004 (gmt 0)

My forum's been live for a little over a month. I've got one or two regular posters and a several irregular posters. We're talking a total membership of 27. They aren't very knowledgeable but that doesn't matter that much. I do the research and respond as best I can to help them.

I'm not promoting the forum other than tieing links from content into it for those willing to follow up on the content with comments and questions. I suspect this will become a valuable method as the content of the site grows and the bots index both the content and the forum's content (I use a subdomain for the forum). But I'm experimenting.

My approach is more of a take it as it comes attitude. I have faith that the forum will grow and I'm not in a rush to grow it right now simply because I expect it will become more demanding as it does and I'm not ready for exponential growth. I've planted a seed so to speak, and will let it mature in it's own time.

In general my time on the forum is taken up with simply cruising through and seeing if there are any new posts and addressing them. I've got a few things on the drawing board for improvements but there's no rush at this time. No one has asked for them and I'll get to them when I have time. Like I noted before, the forum is an experiment and I'm not adversed to trying something new or testing a theory as long as the basic functionality remains for the forum's users.