How did GBAtemp get so big?

[Fusion Master]

How did GBAtemp get so big?

It has 12,000 members!

How did you get this far with this forum KiVan?

 

[ronin_in_tears]

How did GBAtemp get so big ?

Implants, yeah ! that's some boob job ya got there

nah j/k, seriously i don't have a clue.

- ninja vanish -

 

[ent]

the roms. definitely (no i havent read the rest of this post)

 

[Alexander]

First of all gbatemp is a community, so if GBATemp is great, it means that the community rules

When kivan and me uploaded the board the first time we had no clue about the future (ask kivan how long he thought about upgrade the site into a board

)

I can't describe (due to my BAAAAAD english too) the first days emotions.

Then we found kind people and friends, and bla bla bla..

ok that's enough

(obviously nothing would be possible without omero and M4D)

 

[Fusion Master]

I've started this topic because I have a forum of my own, but it only has 91 members!
I thought I might be able to get some ideas on how to make it grow if I started this topic!
Didn't really help though....

 

[mole_incarnate]

FM, your forum only has 91 members because ITS NEW. You dont get 10 000 in 2 weeks dumbass.

 

[Kyro]

i found gbatemp thanks to a popular chinese emulation site, maybe some of us come from here

 

[Tigerbite]

It's all because of me and my advertising =D

I "attempted" to help n00bies on 2 of the biggest n00bie emulation boards around, one of the mroe popular ones being the Emulatorium, hosted on Network54.

Well...let's just say if you post a link to a rom, one post alter they will be asking for it...that's how newbish they are.

That's where i used to hang out at, cause sum of my "non-newbie" friends were also there, and I was the "smartest" in the emulation biz at that forum (thats how newbish they were) and they always flooded my e-mails with blah blah blah & blah blah blah, i got tired of that shit, so i installed an auto e-mail replier, so everytime sumone e-mailed me(those n00bies or even sumone tryin to gimme porn) it sent them a link to www.gbatemp.whatever this part was, cause i 4got =p

and its still on for one of my old e-mail accounts, cause i never turned it off =p

maybe...dat's where all these new members are still coming from =p

On another topic...Kivan, I want you to go 2 the admin thing, and make it delete all users with 0 posts, and yes u can do that, and I want to see how many members we have after you do that =p

 

[xGSiR]

I've started this topic because I have a forum of my own, but it only has 91 members!
I thought I might be able to get some ideas on how to make it grow if I started this topic!
Didn't really help though....

How did you get 91 members? You forced people to join?

I im only seeing about 40 replies and less made on your forum :/

Anyway, basically, for a good forum, you would usually have to have a good site to back it up so people would come.

 

[fireworkz]

* I remember (some time ago) I used to frequently visit this Site due to its source for new and reliable Roms. Unfortunately I didn't really sign up till later - as Im a lazy bastard in filling forms.. But I was glad to join this community.

* Thing I like is that this Site has all related stuff on GBA.. so one doesn't have to miss out on anything..

* People here are helpful and criticism is constructive... Game Reviews are always up-to-date and just keep on coming in.. everyday I {try - due to work I get busy} to login and to my surprise (and enjoyment) I always see that on the home page there is news of a new release..

To wrap this up .. Please keep up the good work.. and Yup a true success is surely a team effort.. so 'hats off to your team' !!

Take Care,
Fireworkz

 

[RayorDragonFall]

Off topic: I'm trying to get Invision Power Board going lol. Loads of difference.

 

[Fusion Master]

I've started this topic because I have a forum of my own, but it only has 91 members!
I thought I might be able to get some ideas on how to make it grow if I started this topic!
Didn't really help though....

How did you get 91 members? You forced people to join?

I im only seeing about 40 replies and less made on your forum :/

Anyway, basically, for a good forum, you would usually have to have a good site to back it up so people would come.

I've only got about 40 posts because most of them where in my rom forums and unfortunately, like all other good rom sites/forums I was forced to remove all links.
Every post in them had a link pretty much so I just dleted the whole rom secion to keep out of trouble.
I'm gonna try and setup an IRC channel with roms though.

(Mole) My forum has been up for a lot more than 2 weeks. I'm just trying to find some ways to get members ok?
You gotta calm down man!

 

[Elrinth]

They became this big cause they had romlinks in beginning.. and afterwards they had own ircchannel(maybe even before) & they had the romlist here, that's why!

 

[PhaTdrU]

true.. but some of the 'members' here dont even post unless they really2 want to. and what happens if we turn down their rom request??? they disappear into thin air just like an old atari game..

 

[Kyoji]

wow. awesome metaphor. is was that a simile...

 

[Tempest Stormwin]

wow. awesome metaphor. is was that a simile...

That's a simile. A very good one, but still a simile. (Uses a comparison instead of a superposition -- we see that the users are "like" old atari games, not that they "are" old atari games.)

-Tempest out.-

 

[root02]

wow. awesome metaphor. is was that a simile...

That's a simile. A very good one, but still a simile. (Uses a comparison instead of a superposition -- we see that the users are "like" old atari games, not that they "are" old atari games.)

-Tempest out.-

I wouldn't know. I hated grammar and composition. My grammar is typically pretty good, but don't ask me what an independent clause is. I was lost from that point on.
This is about the most writing I do anywhere...


[[email protected]]# logoff

 

[Tanner]

Yep,it has become huge.

I remember when Kivan started to post a few links at the GBXemu board for new GBA roms.
Kivan was really cool and developed a big following.
When Kivan decided to start his own rom site,we all followed him from GBX and other forums,GBATemp grew from there.
Now with the Mirc channel and this forum (I.M.H.O) GBATemp has grown to the best GBA information site on the net

Thanks for everything Kivan!!! (and also thanks to the peeps that help him

 

[zanna0080]

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[X-Gamer]

WARNING!
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[Darkforce]

Yeah don't click it, mine didn't crash but some messed up program or something keeps opening up in multiple mindows and floods your screen with connection error messages.

As for why this place got so big, it's obviously roms, dam a lot of people including myself were forced registered to download them when the restrictions were put on, I'm suprised this place stayed so popular after they were removed but hey who's complaing I think the large range of members creates a good variety of news and info on the site.

p.s Whoever said GBAetc was "dead", is not excatly correct, if they're refering to the site being down currently then that's because the server is undergoing changes/updates.... hopefully soon we'll be on T1

. The site is expected back up online this Wednesday.

As for the member and activeness of the forum situation, it's low because most members decided not to go crazy with advertising or anything. The majority of members there are from the original GBXemu and have been into the GBA secene since the start; most don't want a load of n00bs spamming and asking for roms or getting Ninty and other holders of copyrighted material on their backs.

Plus since most of our admins are relatively busy (eg. [Unknown] is also an admin for YaBB SE) and the others often have home or school issues, so even if we did want GBAetc to turn into some hugely popular rom site most poeple just wouldn't have the spare time to continously keep updating (which is why i do a lot of the news over there).