# Tips on making your Discourse forum active
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-on-making-your-discourse-forum-active/179399
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [February 12, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-on-making-your-discourse-forum-active/179399 "2021-02-12T00:09:07Z")
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### Author:  [@gif](https://meta.discourse.org/u/gif)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 12:09am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-on-making-your-discourse-forum-active/179399/1 "2021-02-12T00:09:07Z")
Hey guys, this is me, @png but I just want to tell y’all engage in your Discourse community.
1. Ask questions
Asking questions to your community can get it more active.
2. Host events
Nothing gets the community more hyper than an old fashioned event. Get some judges to rate memes, funniest posts etc.
3. Be a part of the community.
If your forum is aimed at a specific thing, try talking about it and getting some opinions, then tell them that they don’t have to wait for [You] to make a post, and that they can make a post.
Ex. `Hey guys! [Topic or Thing] is the best [Book Movie Etc.] ever! I wanna hear your opinions on it.`
Then after a few replies, you can reply `Hey guys, feel free to share your opinions about [what the forum is focused on] ` and see if they start talking.
A community doesn’t grow overnight, and you have to do some advertising and share it on social media. Hope this helps you though!
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### Author:  [@ondrej](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ondrej)
#### Post date: [February 12, 2021, 9:27am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/tips-on-making-your-discourse-forum-active/179399/2 "2021-02-12T09:27:10Z")
> **[Building a Discourse Community](https://blog.discourse.org/2014/08/building-a-discourse-community/)**
>
> Sure, anyone can set up their very own Discourse in 30 minutes or less. But how do you get people to go there?
> **[Launching a Successful Discourse Community](https://blog.discourse.org/2018/08/launching-a-successful-discourse-community/)**
>
> While we’ve offered general tips for building a Discourse community, we also get a lot of questions about what specifically you can do to help launch a successful Discourse community.
Linked a useful blog post above as well as its more detailed.