# How to make people register on your forum and stay longer?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-people-register-on-your-forum-and-stay-longer/87838
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [May 18, 2018, 2:28pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-people-register-on-your-forum-and-stay-longer/87838 "2018-05-18T14:28:13Z")
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### Author: ![awesomerobot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/awesomerobot/32/142900_2.png) [@awesomerobot](https://meta.discourse.org/u/awesomerobot)
#### Post date: [May 18, 2018, 4:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-make-people-register-on-your-forum-and-stay-longer/87838/3 "2018-05-18T16:08:34Z")

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You might get more useful responses if you share some more specific information about your community (what kind of community is it? How are you promoting/sharing it now? etc)

There’s some good general advice on Meta about this, and we also have a quick blog post with some tips.

> **[Building a Discourse Community](https://blog.discourse.org/2014/08/building-a-discourse-community/)**
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> Sure, anyone can set up their very own Discourse in 30 minutes or less. But how do you get people to go there?

[https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-build-a-community/13819](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-build-a-community/13819)

> [@Social Architecture - Building On-line Communities](https://meta.discourse.org/t/social-architecture-building-on-line-communities/43871):
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> Came across this book which folks here may enjoy. It’s available to read for free online. (I haven’t read too much yet, but so far so good): [Social Architecture - Building On-line Communities](https://hintjens.gitbooks.io/social-architecture/content/) by [Pieter Hintjens](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_Hintjens) As Social Architects, we participate in communities, we identify successful naturally occurring patterns or develop new patterns (which I call “tools”), and we apply these deliberately to our own projects. We apply psychology (our social instincts), economics (how we create common we…

There are also a lot of resources about community building/management on [https://www.feverbee.com/](https://www.feverbee.com/)

You might also find some more relevant topics in the #Community Building category

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