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hi i'm new on the forum and i need help. me and my friend started a gaming community and crew it's not strickly about gaming but based on. but my question is how to make a good and active community? and how to create a regular and high quest flow?? plz help me!!!

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Practical, tactical playbook for turning a small gaming crew into an active community. Many replies hit important themes - on member-focused design, on discoverability, and on polish, on tracking - below are concrete, immediately actionable steps that build on those points.

Decide the single "core action" you want new users to take (join a match, post a clip, join a crew). Design onboarding around that: one-screen signup, optional social login, a tiny "what to do first" checklist shown after signup, and three pre-seeded posts so the site never looks empty. Run a 2-week launch schedule of low-friction events (1v1 ladders, clip-of-the-week, community stream) to guarantee fresh activity from day one.

Create repeatable rituals: weekly tournaments, a rotating "featured member" thread, short seasonal leaderboards that reset, and a small badge system for first contributions. Empower a handful of trusted members as moderators with a one-page code of conduct and clear escalation steps - consistency matters more than strictness. Use lightweight real-time channels (Discord or in-site chat) for matchmaking and highlights, and route highlights back into forum threads to spark discussion.

Measure activation (new users who complete the core action within 7 days) and retention (percent returning after 30 days). Run one simple experiment each week (onboarding copy, event time, CTA placement). Avoid buying users; instead invite small streamers, partner with clans, and manually seed quality content. Quick checklist:

  • Name the core action and instrument it.
  • Make one-screen onboarding and seed 3 starter posts.
  • Schedule the first 3 low-friction events in the next 2 weeks.
  • Draft a 1-page moderator guide and code of conduct.
  • Track activation (7d) and retention (30d); iterate weekly.
  • Highlight and reward ~10 evangelists with clear micro-tasks.

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Member Avatar for SingleMinds

There's some rather good suggestions over in this thread :

http://www.daniweb.com/forums/post724036.html#post724036

For me, personally, it's a question of knowing your members, and being able to see the site through their eyes - and answer their needs. Build it, and they will come....

Focus on content, and orient yourself to quality and not quantity. If you've got the former, the latter will slowly build towards larger numbers.

commented: Good link +33
Member Avatar for A_member

i'm in the beginning of this same journey..

Member Avatar for wickedsunny

ok buddy there are sum gud ways for thsi. just add ranking selection to every game so that others can rank ur games . best ranked games can be placed on the top.
try to be stay in touch with ur users as much.

the second way is do gud SEO
third thing is try advertising online alot.
use new and best games online. try giving ur users sumthing which isnt available online.

Member Avatar for wickedsunny

one more thing buddy i just went through ur site. ur using . is that a free url redirection or sumthing? try using .com it will help alot. it sounds like registered sites. and in the begining try putting more users. and ur top banner is i dono smaller or it shud be in the middle!!

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can i make my social network website alone?

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can i make my social network website alone?

Not sure what you mean?

Member Avatar for nasir1739

i want to say that can i create my own social network webiste where anyone can join and share blogs, comments, messages, adding friends and so on. like orkut, facebook, yuwie etc. can i create my own like this? thats what i mean.

Member Avatar for nasir1739

how much effort i will need for this. can you guess?

Member Avatar for wickedsunny

yes ofcourse u can buddy i alone am running my fan art community :D

Member Avatar for RuncastTV

Try Ning its fantastic..but you still have to put the effort in once the people are on the site

Member Avatar for mackone

First thing is make sure your it looks appealing to the people that your website is targeting. Add a section where members can give comments and critique your forum. It's a great way to feedback from the members of what you need to improve.

Member Avatar for freeman777

Making a community site is very much like running a business....

It is not a 5 minute a day job and requires your wholehearted attention.

I believe that anyone can create his or her own community site, but success depends on the level of skill of the individual as well as the time/effort and thought being put into the site!!

Yeah... like others said see the site through your user's eyes, make it appealing...

GO AGAINST the flow... make something Unique and original... DO NOT jump on the bandwagon.

Member Avatar for OICUAM2

Make sure you have a stat reporting tool such as Google Analytics so you will know where your traffic is coming from and what they are doing on your site. Sometimes people are willing to join a site, but the navigation is bad or a link doesn't work causing people to leave the site. If people are clicking into your sign-up page, but not signing up, then you know you need to redesign your sign-up page.

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