Comment by reaperducer

7 months ago

I run just over 300 forums, for a monthly audience of 275k active users

I can't imagine one person running over 300 forums with 275,000 active users. That gives you an average of eight minutes a week to tend to the needs of each one.

I used to run a single forum with 50,000 active users, and even putting 20 hours a week into it, I still didn't give it everything it needed.

I know someone currently running a forum with about 20,000 active users and it's a full-time job for him.

I don't understand how it's possible for one person to run 300 forums well.

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squigz  7 months ago

With 1 or 2 competent mods, a forum can be very low-maintenance.

  • reaperducer  7 months ago

    When I was running the 50,000 user forum, I had five. Mods are great, but I still can't grok 300+ forums all being done well. He'd need hundreds of mods.

    • squigz  7 months ago

      I seriously doubt a large portion of those 300+ forums have tens of thousands of users.

prmoustache  7 months ago

He is running the infra and maintain the code. Each of those forums have their own moderators. They are basically his customers.

I think what he fears is he has no control on how these individual forums moderate their content and how liable he would be as the hosting admin.