Hi everyone!

Just found this board and was excited to jump in.   I've been interested in building websites for several years since buying my first domain name back in 1997.  About 150 domains later I'm just about to start looking at my sites as a business starting with my online community site focused around my home area - Long Island NY.

The Site is www.longislandbb.com and boasts about 10k registered users, but only about 15 are active posters.  Lots of bots and failed spam attempts.   It runs phpBB v2 but I'm looking at vBulletin, phpBB3 and SMF as well for this and other sites.

Look forward to hearing more about everyone and their website projects, especially about building traffic and monetizing it.

Great to be here!   Actually this is the first site that I've participated on that used SMF and I like it!  I've heard of people adding so many mods that they make it almost myspace like - but how is it to manage after you add mods?

phpBB becomes tough!