Biggest Forum.....Information

[John Klyne]

Okay, I have been wondering, and looking up some things.

I found that many people use a number of different forums directed to a number of different categories, like making money specific forums, law related forums, losing weight forums, debating forums, country specific forums, medical specific forums.....there are just SO MANY OUT THERE.

Well, I have been working on some plans for a forum design, or content layout.

This forum of mine, would be about EVERYTHING.
What does this mean?....it will contain specific categories for about, or ALMOST every thing. This is quite LARGE. And yes it will take time, to figure everything out.

I am wondering, what other people think about this. I have never seen another forum out there, that had specific areas for people to post things related to specific things, I have not seen a forum out there, that lets people have their, making money, investing, medical related, quantum physics, seduction forum, natural cures forum, electronic specific forum, help with homework forum, chemistry help forum, I have NEVER seen a forum out there that had all of these all in ONE Forum, All IN ONE PLACE.

Children/teens do join a number, when I say a number, I mean maybe 5 or 6 forums where they do what they would usually do. Adults with more time are love knowledge and feeling superior join probably 10 forums, (just made up numbers based on my opinion.

Why is that? Why isn't there a forum for EVERYTHING?? Is it too vast? Is that the problem? ....or can no one spend enough time to make the layout...with the location of this category, and sub category and sub category of that category?

Or is it because the forum staff don't have knowledge to post in all these categories to make a category for them? Well, I can find people with specific knowledge in these categories to use the forum, and post what they know, everyone wants to feel superior one way or another, (I will not go in depth with how I plan to get all these categories to have a specific number of mods for those categories who can post knowledge things in their specific category or sub category they will be a mod or MAJOR contributor for.

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If you can give me some feedback on this it would be greatly appreciated. Tell me if you like the idea, or tell me what is wrong with it. Do you think you have enough knowledge to be a major contributor to your specific category of expertise? Tell me what you think please.
Thankyou.

Administrator, of a soon to be Great and VAST forum.
John Klyne

Note: I will not release the forum web-address yet. And the forum will take out a load of free time that I have left to create, without help of course.

 

[Smith6612]

The forum you're working on sounds a bit like mine, though mine is just for hanging out and chatting in a sense.

 

[John Klyne]

I've visited your forum, it may seem like it is just like yours, but the forum I have in mind of creating, (still in the planning phase) will include EVERYTHING, every forum created by anyone else, their categories will be represented here, everything that someone can discuss will have a place on this forum.

Keep the comments coming please. The more comments, the better, I would like to know all your thoughts on this subject.

Thanks.

John Klyne.

 

[ShadowmasterX]

Well, you have to COVER EVERYTHING, a very large forum indeed, too much to actually do without causing the visitor to load for a long time.

I was going to do something like that but in a smaller version, like im working on Arts.

 

[John Klyne]

The load time would be a very large problem...is there no way to make the load time better? and still have all these things in one forum?

This load time never came to mind, and right now, doubts just started flying through my head.

Well, over some thought about this (about 5 minutes)....do you think I should create a site, that leads to all these categorized forums I have made under different names? And another question, since the loading time issue never came to mind before, is it possible to have someone register for 1 forum, and thus they can log into the other forums with the same username they made at first? And is there a way to have all the users online, be shown on the forum for all the users on all the forums, instead of just one?

Shadowmaster X, I never thought of the loading time issue, this forum idea of mine just shattered, and would have failed if the loading time does get really bad.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

 

[ShadowmasterX]

Whoops, didn't mean to shatter ur dreams =(

well maybe, you can create different branches, or something, different forum, same website?

 

[xxll_martin_llxx]

The load time would be a very large problem...is there no way to make the load time better? and still have all these things in one forum?

This load time never came to mind, and right now, doubts just started flying through my head.

Well, over some thought about this (about 5 minutes)....do you think I should create a site, that leads to all these categorized forums I have made under different names? And another question, since the loading time issue never came to mind before, is it possible to have someone register for 1 forum, and thus they can log into the other forums with the same username they made at first? And is there a way to have all the users online, be shown on the forum for all the users on all the forums, instead of just one?

Shadowmaster X, I never thought of the loading time issue, this forum idea of mine just shattered, and would have failed if the loading time does get really bad.

Thanks for bringing it to my attention.

It's easy enough to implement. Not sure if it can do the last point though "And is there a way to have all the users online, be shown on the forum for all the users on all the forums, instead of just one?"
It does take time and effort but the rewards would be huge.

 

[tittat]

Hello John Klyne, i appreciate your idea and interest. But this world wide web is already flooded with quite a lot of forum and starting a new BIG forum from the very scratch with a few ( or no ) members will be a very challenging task.

And also i believe that we can be something, but cant be everything for everyone. I think you are talking about something like forum encyclopedia


Dont worry your idea is possible, but you cant use a typical forum like PHPBB or V- Bulletin, Just have a look at mylot.com they are having a vast vast forum categories and a good member strength.

 

[John Klyne]

Can't deliver something for everyone that is true, or at least I have not seen someone try to accomplish this yet.

When you said forum encyclopedia what did you mean?

Mylot, does have a very vast amount of forum categories, and a good number of members to contribute to it, but not everything is offered.

Do you know what program they have used, if it was bought or not? I wouldn't mind using something close to it, but the layout of a conventional forum in my opinion would be best for this Mass Forum Related Idea I have going on in my head.

About the co,cc domain, I made one using your banner link under a reasonable name for this mass forum idea i have going on.

 

[Fahad]

You would have to write a category name for everything - it's just too hard.

A wiki would be better, as people create the categories themselves.

 

[John Klyne]

You would have to write a category name for everything - it's just too hard.

A wiki would be better, as people create the categories themselves.

There will be many categories I have a lot of things to say and teach others about....(did you know you don't have to pay income taxes? If you live in the USA???....that will make a great Law related thread/guide posted to not paying income taxes)

Then there will categories that will not necessarily be posted, but will be voted on and implemented if we have enough people that would like to use it. (I am not the best person to explain ideas such as this).

A wiki would not let users comment on these things, like a person would be able to do on a forum, at least I don't think so.

Possible to elaborate on a wiki? I have never really known much about them.

 

[Jordan C]

Sounds like a great idea for a site. The only thing is it might get too big and be hard to manage, and also, the site would be so big.

I think you should give it a go, you never know, you might form a really huge great community.

 

[John Klyne]

Sounds like a great idea for a site. The only thing is it might get too big and be hard to manage, and also, the site would be so big.

I think you should give it a go, you never know, you might form a really huge great community.

Okay, I'll take away the loading time doubt I had, and try to work it out, so it can be all in one forum. Later on, I can just create another forum, with 1/2 of the content moved to it, so that the loading time decreases for example. If they get worse and alt more active, I can just move 1/2 of those forums on a 3rd forum, and so on.

This way it would still be the same community or network of forums run by nearly the same domain name. Not sure if this is making sense.

I have decided to give it a go, according to Jordanc's words.

The forum may be so big but that is what I was trying to get, I was trying to get everything all in one big forum. Wouldn't it be easier if you had everything all on one forum? where you don't have to remember another url and where you can go to discuss almost everything out there?

Feel free to suggest more or give some more insight on this, thankyou.


EDIT: Now just waiting for my account to be deleted on x10hosting, so I can start from scratch on this.

 

[xxll_martin_llxx]

Whilst in theory it COULD be a good idea, it will be hard to break existing communities and get them to join your forum with everything on and un-do all their hard work. It will be a thankless task and a huge one which I think big developers would have a team handling all the work.

Good luck with it. Always hard getting any type of forum off the ground.

 

[John Klyne]

Whilst in theory it COULD be a good idea, it will be hard to break existing communities and get them to join your forum with everything on and un-do all their hard work. It will be a thankless task and a huge one which I think big developers would have a team handling all the work.

Good luck with it. Always hard getting any type of forum off the ground.

With people who get what they want, without having to try, in my opinion they miss all the fun.

With people who try to get something done, and strive for it greatly, do not give up or anything like that, those, those are the people I would like to be around, those are the people I would like to be friends with, those are the people who are going to make life better, those are the people who are going to make like more fun then it may already be.

Will it be hard to get people to use the forums because of their current communities, YES it will but is it impossible, nothing is impossible to some extent as long as there is someone trying hard to do it.

Only a fool would keep on trying, but that fool in my opinion is the one I'd like to be friends with. (this case, myself and maybe the staff on the soon to be created forum are the fools but are fools who strive for something, unlike other people who are always handed what they want).
Edit:
I have a question, If I do figure everything out for this forum I am very anxious to get rolling,

Am I allowed to use VBulletin? as the forum program, with my free x10 account?

Before I go and buy it, I have another question, does anyone have any input on it, or an example forum that may be using the VBulletin program? It does cost quite a large amount, or should I just stick to the normal phpbb3?

(I have not seen anyone use it, so I am thinking it is against the rules or something similar to that).

 

[xxll_martin_llxx]

The reason you haven't seen anyone here use it may be because they're after a free ride and look at how expensive vB is. As long as you have a legal copy of it there will be no problem using it.

I don't see why phpbb3, mybb or similar boards would cause a problem with a project like that. If you did start off with one board and decide to change, it's usually easy enough to switch forum boards.

 

[John Klyne]

The features vB has compared to these other free programs are quite interesting, though it would be easier to use phpbb3 or mybb or any other similar board to start with one board then create more if needed. If donations start rolling in, which I hope will be the sites main income, a new domain name, account upgrade and vB will be on that after those are made.

I'll use phpbb3, for now, and won't waste money unless the users prefer a vB forum and it's features.

Note: Made a new off topic thread for this biggest forum-category help.

Link is below.
http://forums.x10hosting.com/off-topic/92772-biggest-forum-category-help.html#post503612