[@chrishajer Participant 17 years, 5 months ago]

I have found that if you have a topic that people are passionate about, they will post in your forum. Also, posting inflammatory or incendiary topics (to get people posting from both sides of the argument) helps too.

Firstly, though, people need to FIND your forum. How are you getting the word out?

Forums are most certainly not dead. I read lots of blogs, but only post in forums, generally.