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

[awesomerobot (Kris)]

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://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-build-a-community/13819

Social Architecture - Building On-line Communities

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 by 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/

You might also find some more relevant topics in the community category