Trying out a forum software at the moment, on my LAN. The problem I've had with forums is that I can never really had an exciting reason to make one, and the only successful one I had was the Psycho Bonus Stage one (don't ask).

But an idea comes to mind - I am trying to purpose this forum as a 'family message board', intended for me and the siblings to organise things that we can't do in-person or on Teamspeak, and hang around and have fun. And so that's currently how I'd do it.

Most of my failed attempts have been a weak try at getting my folks from the PBS community into a non-specific forum to just chat and hang around. Without a proper focus, things fell apart quick. So I see that now. I wonder though; if I did make a forum, what kind of focus would it have?