Re: Do You Believe a New Forum Software Will Attract More Users to Bitcointalk?
⭐ Merited by Pmalek (1)
Or another German Forum for cryptocurrencies, called Coinforum. It was established in 2012 and has now much more discussion than our German local board. Their software has always been more updated and a much better design; most new German members are signing up there instead of German Bitcointalk because design matters.
I wanted to check this, so I did a Google search using a few keywords to see which of the two forums are ranked better in the search results.This is what I found:
1. When you search "german crypto forum", the German local of Bitcointalk will be the 1st result, an Ethereum forum will be 2nd, and CoinForum is 3rd.
2. When you search "german bitcoin forum", again the German local of Bitcointalk is 1st and CoinForum is 2nd.
It's a bit different if you search with German keywords:
1. A search with "deutsche crypto forum" places CoinForum on top and the German local of Bitcointalk on the 2nd place.
2. You get the same results searching for "deutsche bitcoin forum".
What that shows is that both forums are easily found, but if Germans prefer CoinForum instead of Bitcointalk, the correct question we need to ask ourselves is why and how can it be corrected?
Aside from a very different design, I see much more advantages for Bitcointalk:
+ Original Forum where Satoshi was active (probably many people dont't know it)
+ International community
+ Collection of great tutorials
+ Marketplace section for buying selling goods
Coinforum has not much advantages over Bitcointalk
+ Better design of course
+ Coinforum is funded by a German Bitcoin Marketplace (Bitcoin.de) not from Ads like Bitcointalk.
After all, I would assume the modern design of Coinforum is more attractive to new members. But I can't say for sure...