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what would you do to bring back the lifehack.org forum?
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I don't thing that the lifehack forum lived in the first place.
In general a forum needs action to draw new users.
I think the forum was created pretty much with the assumption that it just installing the forum software is enough.
I think there are three facor that Steve did right to start the forum:
1) The Steve Pavlina forum had over twenty moderators at the start. That is a lot of manpower to get the momentum required to get action. If I remember right around 60 people wrote applications to become a moderator.
2) There was also a lot of anticipation before the forum opened. People looked forward to the forum. This was archived by telling the users a few time before the forum opened about the fact that it will open.
3) The forum is the way to
comment on blog article. This has also the advantage for Steve that we moderators moderate the comments.
4) We have an Introductions board.
What can you do about the forum?
1) Close it. And reopen version 2.0 in 3-4 month.
The following steps should take place in the month before the new forum opens:
2) Before you open ask the community for forum categories (one blog post asking for suggestions and one blog post to vote on those suggestions).
3) Let people apply to become a moderator in the board.
4) At the day the new forum opens switch to a comment system where people comment on your blog post through the forum.
Optional:
5) Ask other bloggers (people who have more than one blog post featured at your blog), whether they want a subforum on your site as comment system (they can also get it in addition to their old comment system) that they moderate.
(I see lifehack.org as a site that brings different blogs together at the moment)