A few weeks after letting FanConcert users send mail messages to each other, I've added discussion forums.

Every object (artist, venue, concert, release, etc) has a discussion forum. There's even a discussion forum on every FanConcert user's profile (here's mine).

I'm going to add a forum to the bottom of every FAQ page so that users can discuss them. I really liked this aspect of the PHP manual, where people could post stuff related to the part of the docs you were looking at.

I made a page for other discussion forums (not connected to specific objects). Right now there's only one forum in there called General Help but we'll definitely be adding more forums. Suggestions?

This is the intial implementation of discussion forums, so I'm eager to hear your feedback for how they could be improved. Soon I'll be adding RSS/Atom feeds and forum searching. I'll probably add a preference to be notified by email when people respond to your threads.

This is another feature to allow more social interaction on FanConcert. What's next? I'm thinking every user should have a blog where they can talk about music (or anything they want). This shouldn't be too hard -- a blog is just a discussion forum where threads can only be started by one person. The other posts in the thread are the same as blog comments. Simple.