Nairaland is indisputably the best Internet community website in Nigeria. I am a Nigerian currently living in the U.S, spent over 4 years doing my personal research on the uniqueness of this website with respect to even other top rated/International forums but still its surprising to see many obvious merits.

It's hard to state detailed facts for obvious reasons. A few undeniable traits include: Simple layout (for quick loads), Localized content (to focus on a niche), Strategic location of links(i.e regularly updated featured links), view at a glance (Homepage has it all), user drive (to make FP, Likes, Mention, etc.), Agile Moderators (to censor content, manage spam etc.), Internal ad placements (No google, amazon ads) among many others.

I have recently started making my personal research to understand the internet sustainability goal which usually exist in two forms:
1. Picking a niche and growing it with time
2. Creating a plaforms that welcomes commentry from all niche.

I think the former method can be embraced only after you have been through the second phase initially. Asides this, you stand more chances of showing up in search queries when content is diversified.

Furthermore, I'm recently working on a forum website and would require some honest professional opinion. Feel free to tell me what looks good and what can be improved. Here>> www.forumine.com

Thanks to Mr. Seun for giving us Nairaland.

Have u seen www.gisthive.com

Forumine is a beautiful site. I also realized it uses phpBB.I am using d same for [url]forum.gisthive.com[/url]

romeo911999:
Have u seen www.gisthive.com

I checked out your website. Looks like it still needs some work but welldone. I love the functionality of the phpbb theme as it comes with basic functionalities. Just working on a few more plugins then I should be good for launch.