[lange]

It depends on the niche and your goal.

Make a general public forum like in the past, forget it, people are on social media.

Making a private, invite-only personal forum with general content for friends or those who share your interests makes more sense. On the other hand, it must be developed to make it sufficiently interesting to retain membership. It's not easy too.

[daisysmithh]

I think forums might not be as famous as they used to be. The Facebook era killed a lot of them. Nevertheless, I still find myself searching for answers here.

[linuxvorpal]

Originally Posted by daisysmithh

I think forums might not be as famous as they used to be. The Facebook era killed a lot of them. Nevertheless, I still find myself searching for answers here.

Forum searching is annoying. Results are not useful for content that is more than a year old. Most searches just return old and now irrelevant content. Forums are filled with that kind of stuff.