I added descriptions for most of the boards. And more areas for chatting idk what else to do
There are still a lot of empty boards. As the forum admin, you have to be the one to initiate all of these early threads/discussions. A lot of members will not post, and a lot of guests will not join, if there are a lot of boards with most of them being completely empty.
Create more discussion threads; as an example, you have "Chat With Other Readers". So start a thread per the board discussion "sharing experiences" as per the board description. Similarly, create a thread in "Imagery" to talk about your favourite artworks for your decks. As an admin, it is your responsibility to create content until you get members to participate (and you still must continue creating content even after, but you can do so at a more relaxed pace).
With most of the boards being empty like this, it kind of looks like you are waiting for members to start conversations for you, and generally speaking people don't really want to do that. When you're starting out, you really should have 1 thread in every board that invites prospective members to join in -- and something more like "here's an idea what do you think"; these are
exchanges, so you need to offer your own thoughts as well.
If you are daunted by the amount of threads you need to create for each board, then consolidate. Personally, I don't think you need a category for "practice" and "the cards" separately (imo they can be combined into a single category where you have a board called 'practice' and a board called 'the cards' with subboards), but if you like the current set up, try grouping similar things together (eg: Reading Exchanges, Request a Free Reading, and Looking for Volunteers could all be a single board and you can use the label system to tag which threads are which). Similarly, "Tips" and "Techniques" could be a single board as they're both really the same thing.
Lastly, you have a "progress" board, that says
Open a thread to have your personal blog related to your practice. Gently, I think this board isn't really valuable. If someone wanted to *blog* about their experiences, then they'd make a blog, not join a forum. A forum is about community and interacting with each other as a group; a blog is a platform where interactions generally go one way (readers > author, and the author may or may not respond).
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Honestly, I kind of have a question for you. Please understand that it's not a criticism or negative question, just something I've been curious about for a while seeing the types of forums you create.
What is your goal in making a forum?Making a lot of forums isn't a bad thing, necessarily, but looking over your post history, you have many, many boards that you seem to lose interest in after a time. You have, in the past, posted the following forums:
- Dragon's Blood - A Blog/Chat forum for creative and spiritual things
- Written in Ouija - A Readings forum where you want people to give you things to make content/readings about
- The Ouija Technique - Same thing
- Lucy's Den - General Chat
- Another spirital forum
- Spiritual Minds - a spiritual forum
- Mental health and spirituality - a spiritual / mental health forum
- Bear With Me - a political forum
- A promotion board
- The final radiant - another blog forum
- Digital Campfire, another general chat
- This new tarot board
Of these forums, only 3 are still accessible; of those 3, 1 seems abandoned, and 1 is in maintenance mode; the last of the three is the forum you're asking reviews on in this thread.
So what is your goal? You seem to want to create communities, but a lot of the forums you create lean towards people submitting content for you to do stuff with; the general chats seem more interactive, but it seems you give up on them after only a few months.
Maybe the problem isn't that you're not getting reviews on how to improve, but rather because you don't seem to feel strongly about the types of forums you create and you're kind of throwing ideas around to see if anything sticks? I don't know, I'm just really confused at what you're looking for.
