[@fraternity Participant 13 years, 6 months ago]

Also, sorry to derail a bit, but any comment on scalability of this?

I currently run three forums, one each for a different capital city in my country, each with around 15 subforums.

My plan is to combine these into a single site, so each group forum would have 15 subforums – which would be about 45 forums just to replicate what I have now.

I’d then like to create another 10 or so site forums, so that our members from different cities can discuss general topics. And then I’d like to add more groups – initially I’d be adding 3 more groups, for 3 more cities in my country, which would be another 45 forums.

That right away takes me up to 106 forums (10 sitewide, 6 group forums and 90 subforums), before I even start expanding the geographic reach of our groups beyond our country’s borders.

Let’s say I expand into 50 different cities, I’m looking at about 810 subforums (10 sitewide, 50 group forums, 750 subforums).

John mentions “There are a few technical challenges regarding performance that don’t make it entirely feasible” and I wonder if this was what he was getting at?

Perhaps I’m posting this in the wrong section.. but figured you’re probably going to run into a similar issue, moebis