I made a forum for my school because most of the professors in my major don't use Blackboard, so none of us really have a venue to connect, collaborate or troubleshoot things that go wrong in our coding. So I've found that most of us are forced to just google.

Well I made the forum and set it up over a few hours. Then emailed a link to the domain I registered to the student organization for our major. All I got back was "this is an idea that we have had in the past to have a discussion board on our site. Unfortunately, not many people utilized the tool." and then I was asked how I was "planning to market and utilize my site".. and I replied that I had no real ambitions for the site, just wanted to try and make something helpful... and that was that.

Now, for what I was your advice on reddit, how should I get the word out for this forum? I don't want to spam out emails and I don't really even know anyone in my major. 

..Its probably hard to get people to join a forum w/ no posts and no members (other than me).
user
Made forum for school, got told that there is no way to market/utilize it, how should I get the word
assistant
I made a forum for my school because most of the professors in my major don't use Blackboard, so none of us really have a venue to connect, collaborate or troubleshoot things that go wrong in our coding. So I've found that most of us are forced to just google.

Well I made the forum and set it up over a few hours. Then emailed a link to the domain I registered to the student organization for our major. All I got back was "this is an idea that we have had in the past to have a discussion board on our site. Unfortunately, not many people utilized the tool." and then I was asked how I was "planning to market and utilize my site".. and I replied that I had no real ambitions for the site, just wanted to try and make something helpful... and that was that.

Now, for what I was your advice on reddit, how should I get the word out for this forum? I don't want to spam out emails and I don't really even know anyone in my major. 

..Its probably hard to get people to join a forum w/ no posts and no members (other than me).
user
I want to get the word out on a forum I made for my major at my school.
assistant