# Need Opinion To Open a Forum Community

**URL:** <https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008>\
**Category:** General Discussion\
**Created:** [March 14, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008 "2023-03-14T07:26:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![Tillman\_Kulas](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4da419/32.png) [@Tillman\_Kulas](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/Tillman_Kulas)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 7:26am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008/1 "2023-03-14T07:26:59Z")

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Greetings, I have been following the website for the past few days now. I have a tech website which related to Windows. I have a community team in facebook. But also we want to open a forum community where all people can discuss their issues openly.

[This](https://www.thewindowsclub.com/) is our website. I dont know if it is an effective way to start this right now. Any expert can provide me suggestions?

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:07am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008/2 "2023-03-14T08:07:49Z")

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If you're wanting to build a forum that operates like this one, then I believe [this is what you are looking for](https://www.discourse.org/).

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:08am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008/3 "2023-03-14T08:08:26Z")

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Seems inappropriate to me to post this here. ☹

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**Author:** ![justinedwards.jle](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/justinedwards.jle/32/37854_2.png) [@justinedwards.jle](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/justinedwards.jle)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:09am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008/4 "2023-03-14T08:09:57Z")

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> [@pturmel](#):
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> Seems inappropriate

because of the external link?

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**Author:** ![pturmel](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/user_avatar/forum.inductiveautomation.com/pturmel/32/3295_2.png) [@pturmel](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/pturmel)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:13am UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/need-opinion-to-open-a-forum-community/71008/5 "2023-03-14T08:13:53Z")

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Yes. Not sure it rises to the level of spam, but does seem to be a blatant attempt to siphon attention away from IA.