Many people never talk about unsuccessful forum biche. However, it is very important to highlight this topic so that we could avoid such topics or niches. I think that forums related to unpopular hobbies or outdated products are the kind of forum that may not survive the test of the time. A forum about an outdated product is also hard to tackle. What do you think?

I feel like a Toe clipping fetish forum based off of the toe clippings of the elderly would be objectively one of the least successful forum niches I could think of on the spot XD

On an actual note, I do not think unpopular hobbies would be an unsuccessful forum at all. If anything it could easily become the most active. My largest forum was about a very niche game making program, and on top of that, it was about a specific version of that niche game making program. Since there was so little options it was extremely easy to grow and to get it listed on google through backlinks which did not take long at all to build. I ended up getting first on google for about 10 different keywords and managed to blow it up because of it. The more unpopular the hobby the less likely people only in it for money will be to make a community for it. Leaving it open to actual passionate people. Which means you could be the “FINALLY A COMMUNITY FOR X”, then the small community will tell everyone else about it and before you know it you could be larger than the previous place people huddled in. Same thing with outdated products to an extent. My current site just got 100+ members without me actually promoting it outside of making a promotion post here and there. It’s mostly just my signature and active. That site is based around the old web which is an outdated product. Buuut, it’s a product that people miss. So you can easy have a successful (I wouldn’t call my current project successful, but there’s def a possibility it gets there one way which I do not care one way or another if it does, it’s a passion project).

At the end of the day, I think the only unsuccessful forum niche is a too specific forum niche. The only way to really fail is if instead of saying “Outdated camcorders” you have a forum specifically for the “Panasonic OmniMovie VHS HQ AV CCD Camera from the 1980s” because there’s a lot of people out there making their own indie movies using old camcorders, you’d probably have a fairly successful time making a forum for “Outdated Camcorders” if you played it right, but to have a specific niche Camcorder from 1987 only would be one of the few ways to truly not succeed imo.