# How to establish a successful forum based on discourse?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-establish-a-successful-forum-based-on-discourse/78562
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [1월 20, 2018, 4:31오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-establish-a-successful-forum-based-on-discourse/78562 "2018-01-20T16:31:43Z")
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### Author: ![8BIT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/8bit/32/76872_2.png) [@8BIT](https://meta.discourse.org/u/8BIT)
#### Post date: [1월 20, 2018, 4:48오후 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-establish-a-successful-forum-based-on-discourse/78562/2 "2018-01-20T16:48:40Z")

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> [@1,000,000 pageviews in 2 weeks...! Why? Because Discourse. rocket](https://meta.discourse.org/t/1-000-000-pageviews-in-2-weeks-why-because-discourse/68891/26):
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> So your pageviews may be related with the youtube channel.

I’ll correct this statement and say that our pageviews (at least initially) were DEFINITELY related with the YouTube channel. But, this was where we started and it has since begun to gain its own steam.

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