So how does it work? Creating a new online community.

If you were to create a website that is to be an online community (forum, textboard, imageboard, hybrid, anything etc) how do you get people to it if you were not to go out and ``advertise'' it and instead simply just created the website, made it searchable through search engines utilizing keywords and the URL of the site, and simply letting it sit? Will people discover it and then stay and start posting?

If you want to start a new online community your best bet is probably still to recruit disguntled or displaced members of other online communities, /ota/ did a good job of this. progrider has done a good job of this. I'm sure you could do it too.

Also, I found /prog/ through finding 4chan through the utterly epic rickrolling meme. Only mentioning this because rickrolling, XD.