# Onboarding “normies” to forums!

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**Category:** Community Building\
**Created:** [June 21, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-normies-to-forums/230602 "2022-06-21T12:54:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![jamesbrooks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/jamesbrooks/32/259079_2.png) [@jamesbrooks](https://meta.discourse.org/u/jamesbrooks)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2022, 12:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onboarding-normies-to-forums/230602/1 "2022-06-21T12:54:04Z")

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To my surprise…many people don’t quite understand what forums _are_ and how to use them.

I really want the appeal of my discourse site to be far and wide.

So I am just wondering, what do you guys do as an onboarding process to a) make your site more “sticky” for visitors, but b) sell in the CONCEPT of a forum and get people to start contributing and feeling confident to do so.

Grateful for any advice, examples of forums that do this well, or generally any ideas to throw into the mix.

Thanks in advance!

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