Today I am going to write a few things that I believe are holding the forum platform behind. This goes for all types of niches. I will compare forums like vbulletin to "forums" like Reddit and Quora and why they are successful. You can obviously disagree, in which case I'd love to see your thoughts.

1. Appealing to the New Audience
I assume a lot of you are like me, using bulletin boards since the early 2000s with the classic forums. But the web has changed so much over the years and so have the users. The younger crowd has not seen forums of those old days, there are barely many forums out there. Every search result you get is either an answer from a Blog or a Community site like Yahoo Answers, Quora, StackOverflow. I think we might be the old grandpa when it comes to forums. Nothing wrong with being old, but you know when you are old, you look outside and you realize most people you know are DEAD. Our forums are like an old grandpa, we look outside and most of the...