Question About Invision Power Board

[Buzliteyear]

Is there a way that I can change the number of topics without actually creating new topics?

I would like to make the change so it looks like the forum is a lot busier than it is.

I haven't been able to get if off the ground using the time tested techniques, and I think that new people are coming and seeing only 40 threads here and 60 threads there and leaving since it doesn't loook that busy.

Thanks.

[Alpha_Male]

you should only have a few categories anyway no more then say 5-8 that way it will look like you have alot of traffic and post then when it starts to expand add more categories

[edited by: rogerd at 6:54 pm (utc) on April 25, 2006]
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[Beagle]

I'd agree with Alpha_Male. Better to have a few active topics than a lot of dead-looking ones. And if dead-looking topics turn people off, IMVHO topics that don't even exist would be worse. If I saw a forum that said it had 40 threads and when I entered I found that it had only 25, I'd sure wonder what was going on. (Unless I'm misunderstanding what you're saying.)

[rogerd]

>>I'd sure wonder what was going on

Some forums may suppress viewing older threads, so a displayed total larger than what's immediately visible could be possible. At the same time, I doubt if the overall perception will be changed much if the actual thread count is the same.

[londrum]

you could just split the topics you've already got, creating more topics.