# What Strategy Should I Use To Make My Community Active

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-strategy-should-i-use-to-make-my-community-active/70415
**Category:** Community Building
**Created:** [9월 20, 2017, 6:07오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-strategy-should-i-use-to-make-my-community-active/70415 "2017-09-20T06:07:25Z")
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### Author: ![meglio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/meglio/32/71444_2.png) [@meglio](https://meta.discourse.org/u/meglio)
#### Post date: [1월 21, 2018, 7:18오전 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/what-strategy-should-i-use-to-make-my-community-active/70415/11 "2018-01-21T07:18:36Z")

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Our experience outlined here – slow but steady activity growth over 3 years:

> [@How to establish a successful forum based on discourse?](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-establish-a-successful-forum-based-on-discourse/78562/9):
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> Establishing a successful community is very hard work spanning a few years – in case it’s not a complimentary (= support) forum to some existing product or service that you sell. In the latter case, you’re going to naturally have active community consisting of your customers. It took us almost 3 years to make a forum with just 2600 registered users writing ~ 18k posts per month. We had to compete with 3 other forums in a very tiny niche, and we now outperform all of them. Nobody (except our tea…

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