How to get to the Forum website in the future

This question is quite large, from the above answer, can be interpreted from the n level, product level, operational level, strategic level and so on.
My personal view is that the forum will not be extinct in the short term, or one of the services that users generally use. For the Lilac Garden site, I feel that the content and question and answer content is very similar, the content of consulting and sharing is larger. The Forum's advantage lies in its square, which allows readers to dig their own content without hindrance, which is similar to the portal's News center and newspaper. Because in most cases, most of the users do not know what they want to see the content, in the future I can share some data.
from the product, the forum also has a relatively large space for improvement, above I very much agree with Fanke, not only to improve the space and there is a way to implement.

to supplement several data: social, entertainment forum 70% of users only browse the first screen of content, 13% will turn the second page, 6% of the users will go to the third page, and like some practical forums such as entrepreneurship, emotional topics, 50% people only browse the home page, 15% people will turn the second pages, 10% people will turn the third page. So even the forum, the user's behavior in the difference is very large, for the product requirements and operational requirements are different.

Small Platform, hodgepodge – forum always obsolete

has always been that the forum (BBS) is the most NB web2.0 application form, as long as there is high-quality content, with user resources, coupled with the atmosphere of the operation modelling, will be able to become a very successful site. After all, on this basis to do e-commerce and what is not difficult, to survive, to make money. So the most difficult forum is not a high-quality, unique content, without a certain number of members, unable to create a good community atmosphere and culture.

Over the last six months, the view of the forum has changed a lot:

1. The forum is always obsolete, and the needs of users are progressing. Now, with a huge amount of information, users want less time to see what they are interested in. This requires the website with the technology or mechanism, the content of accurate push to the user, from another point of view, this is also the reason why Web2.0/sns become standard. At this time, compared with the timeline invented by Facebook, the "hodgepodge" of the forum is clearly unable to meet the needs of users. To web2.0 is the trend of the current website.

2. The Forum is a small application, or a small platform, on which more can not be hosted. Assuming a forum big, then plan to add other services, want to make the site a step on the difficult, unless hurt –, Mr Skinner cramp. For example, although the allocation of information, download, recruitment and other channels, but the forum is the core of the column. If the next generation wants to have a leap, it is difficult to rely on the forum alone. Not only can not rely on the forum, but also to weaken it, to rebuild a new big platform.