I'm trying to start a forum on my site. I am stuck and need help. If you know how to set up forums and are available to help me get started, I would like to talk to you. Please email me. Thanks.
I'm trying to start a forum on my site. I am stuck and need help. If you know how to set up forums and are available to help me get started, I would like to talk to you. Please email me. Thanks.
Try Simple Machines Forum. Easy to install, good plugin ecosystem, lots of people able to provide paid support. I’m pretty sure they’ve got a forum for people looking for commercial solutions.
In my experience, running a forum is a huge time commitment for very little benefit.
Forums work when a critical mass of discussion is available in one spot, usually from different groups. A single-site forum never meets that requirement.
You are better off with even a fairly lame forum implementation at a popular site, for example the LinkedIn discussion groups.
Note: I ran 50+ internal newsgroups at Hewlett-Packard in the 80’s and 90’s, and also ran a product forum for Ultraseek.