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Smash The Echidna got Kapus to help with his forum. How the hell did he do that?
What purpose does this forum serve, exactly? If you're going to run a site (especially if it's just a forum) you're going to need a reason for people to want to come there. It's not really easy to forge a community if you don't have a lot of foundation for one. You haven't really said much other than it's for sonic fans, which is probably too broad. There are a lot of sonic fansites on the net already with their own forums and communities. Why's someone going to go here if they could go to an existing place (e.g. Sonic Retro) that already has a bustling community? Individual forums have a much harder time surviving in this age than they did about a decade ago, I might add. With the increase in social media and wikis and stuff, people don't really use traditional forums that often, so starting and growing one is going to be harder than ever. You're probably going to have to narrow it down to more specific interests to get people to partake. For example, Smash's site is (somewhat ambiguously) meant to be for Sonic fanfiction and roleplaying specifically, rather than just being a "sonic forum". Even then though his site is pretty much dead because the sonic fanon community is all gathered together on the sonic fanon wiki.
Like Kapus said, you should give people a reason to show up. Are you hosting roleplays or contests? Writing fanfiction? Showcasing some other kind of project that people will be interested in? Like for example, people are here on Cutstuff mainly because of Cutmanmike's two games: MM8BDM and GvH. What do you have to offer?