# How long usually it took you to build your forum to a sustainable level

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [8 مارس 2017، 4:17ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-usually-it-took-you-to-build-your-forum-to-a-sustainable-level/58613 "2017-03-08T04:17:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![xiaosube](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/c37758/32.png) [@xiaosube](https://meta.discourse.org/u/xiaosube)\
**Post date:** [8 مارس 2017، 4:17ص UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-long-usually-it-took-you-to-build-your-forum-to-a-sustainable-level/58613/1 "2017-03-08T04:17:00Z")

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This question is to experienced and successful forum owners on the community. I am an ambitious forum owner who have been facinated after seen discourse. I throw away my plans to use invisionpower and vbulletine at the very moment I saw discourse and its demo on [try.discourse.org](http://try.discourse.org)

Now I have a forum which I use discourse as platform and I found it is mobile friendly and users friendly.

It has been three weeks now, still search engine traffic is not coming. I generate content by seeding three users and adding questions and answers myself. I do it in a natural way, but still no search engine traffic.

I would like to learn from your experience, how to grow a forum to a sustainable level, how to get users to forum and make them to contribute … etc.

More importantly, how long it took you to achive a sustainable growth level.

If anyone want to see my forum before repling (I blured it not to be a spam)

[http://www.webstarbucks.com](http://www.webstarbucks.com)

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