Tips for creating a community?

[bedes]

Hello! I'm looking into possibly creating a community for a series that doesn't have a community yet. Do any community-owners have any advice for keeping a fandom community active and fun? Is there a good place to interest-check a community, or do you just throw it to the wind and cross your fingers, so to speak? Where do you recommend promoting communities?

Thank you in advance!

Comments

[bedes]

Ooh, just skimming through your masterpost, there's already stuff on topics I was wondering about! This is EXACTLY the sort of resource I needed. Thank you so so much! (And the series is Dungeon Meshi!)

[vriddy]

You're very welcome, and now I'm even more excited! :) For the early posts, if a bit of reading doesn't scare you I can't recommend enough also reading the comments as I truly had no idea what I was doing. I refined my thinking a lot as I went, based on the advice people kindly shared.

And I'm extra delighted that this is going to be for an anime series! Dungeon Meshi has been on my list of shows I want to watch for a while so I'll prioritise that and you'll have your first member >:D

Another random suggestion, totally take it or leave it as you wish: something that ended up working out well at the beginning when I started the comm is organising a rewatch party and promoting that on anime_manga. I already wanted to rewatch anyway, but it brought on a couple of people who had been curious about BNHA and just hadn't had the time. If re-reading or re-watching is something that you had in mind anyway, this could work out nicely! If that sounds like work or not particularly fun though, forget about it ;)

[bedes]

Oooooh a rewatch party is a great idea!! Thank you again for the tip and tysm for your interest as well! <3