I thought this article was helpful.... for getting users to register and post

[s2kinteg916]

http://www.theadminzone.com/forums/articles.php?do=viewarticle&aid=3560

[Chris]

That does seem helpful. I'm always getting emails from people who are screwing up the email confirm.

[Rosny]

thanks, the article will help in my community building. I do have question. How long it take you to develop this large community scubaboard.com member?

thanks

[Chris]

I implemented this at my literature site at the beginning of June, here are my results.

User registrations:

June 2004 138
July 2004 109
August 2004 122
September 2004 127
October 2004 144
November 2004 192
December 2004 200
January 2005 231
February 2005 278
March 2005 248
April 2005 319
May 2005 367
June 2005 490

New Posts

June 2004 2731
July 2004 2611
August 2004 1454
September 2004 931
October 2004 1784
November 2004 4415
December 2004 3787
January 2005 3387
February 2005 3807
March 2005 4304
April 2005 4926
May 2005 10769
June 2005 7221


Ignore May for the new posts, I did a mass addition of my legacy comment database into the forum so it inflated the numbers by around 6k

Overall, well worth the time.

[Cutter]

Very nice, are you going to implement it here?

[Chris]

possibly, but most webmasters I'd think are well versed in forum software operation and the changes really just make things more user friendly for those who don't know how to register/post a thread/confirm email/ etc

[James]

Thanks for the link. It's bookmarked.

Should come in handy when I impliment forums on a site I'm currently working on.