LifeinAsia - 9:27 pm on Jan 16, 2006 (gmt 0)

I have more traffic than he does,

First, are you talking about total site traffic or just traffic on the forum pages?

My forum is not yet displayed on the home page, this is the only difference.

Second, since most sites get the majority of their traffic hitting their home page, by not displaying your forums there, you are potentially losing a lot of traffic to your forums.

Less traffic to the forums generally results in fewer posts.

You should also check out the links to your competitor's site. If he has good links going directly to the forums (or specific posts), that will also make a huge difference.

[edited by: tedster at 12:20 am (utc) on Jan. 17, 2006]
[edit reason] fix formatting [/edit]