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How do you create a forum similar to the one on this site? How easy is it and whats the cost?

I don`t know about the technical aspects of building a forum like this.  But what I do know is that a lot of effort has to go into building the "community".  Getting people together, ushering conversation and keeping their attention is no small task.  Making forums successful takes more than simply offering a forum platform and adopting an attitude of "alright people, the topic is `whatever` - start talking".  Startup Nation here, for example, created a specific job just to lead its community.  (Great work, Joel!).  He does a lot more than just act as a forum monitor, he is involved in the community keeping the ball rolling by inspiring discussion and creating new topics.  Those are the kinds of efforts that I believe are the heart of creating successful forums.

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Like this one specifically? Custom programming = high costs.

Like a forum in general? You can get premade packages.

Community building is time consuming and difficult work though. It`s not Ray building a baseball field and players just showing up. It requires daily effort to build traffic, keep the community flowing and moderated, and create a place people want to come back to.

There are several free forum scripts out there. Check out www.phpbb.com, this will get you set right up. However, getting actual people to participate in your forum is the hard part. You need a niche or incentive(pay them to post on your forums, or provide extremely useful information which draws in people) to start builing a community.

I have also been thinking of creating a forum on my site. All of your comments are extremely helpful to me making a decision.

The ones I have been looking at are through WP. I found them under the plugins by searching 'forum'.

I don't know if your site is built on WP or not. If so, this would be a simple addition of plugin.

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 I agreed with you. I have too use these phpbb into my website. It simply you need something information about the programming. Its better to hire the developer. 

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If you want to make your forum successful then you need to collect a lot of information regarding to your forum topic such as rules, great ideas,  Mature and Professional, add some fun topics, etc. After that you need to find good friends, very important to make sure everything works.  You can use anyone default application for coding, Add some custom styles, Logo, etc, to your forum. Once complete your forum then you need to promote it. So their are several options for marketing to your forum website such as Advertising, Affiliating and Partnerships, Search Engine Optimization, etc.  

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