There are two fundamental kinds of communities.  

Community of Users

The focus is on the users, and the social interaction between users.  

This usually emphasizes features centered on the users like profiles, status updates, a membership directory, user albums, user blogs, and user-published content.  The user is there to broadcast his perspective, and shares his personal perspective.  Even though other users can comment, the primary focus is on the individual's original content.  

Community of Content

The focus is on collaborative content, and the shared creation of content.  

This usually emphasizes features like group discussion, group albums, group blogs, wikis, and other collaborations.  The community gets rewarded through group accomplishments, and come together to solve issues.  

What is AdonisMale?

Reconciling the two and bringing them together has always been a challenge (in a good way) for me.  I intentionally try to offer both.  My personal opinion is that new users come for the community of content - they're specifically looking for a certain model or image.  Power users who upload a lot of content tend to also focus on the community of content.  Most regular users, however, stay for the community of users and the friendships that develop.  

This struggle was highlighted recently in a review of our Gallery, where it was questioned why I had image boards in Forums vs albums in Gallery.  I sought private feedback, and one of the best responses is that topics allowed anyone to add to the pictures.  There can be many people all contributing images. For users who don't have large collections but instead share one or two photos here and there, it's a better fit.  

When the gallery was initially developed, I pushed the software developers to provide 'group albums' where anyone could contribute to an album.  They developed the feature two years later, and by that time, we had already built out our Main Gallery (now known as Themed Albums) and it was too big of a change for us to course-correct. 

With that said, I did want to educate the community that we do allow group uploading in albums!  It's an option under Privacy when you create an album:

Our albums are a quandary.  Most themed albums are better as user-albums, where the owner controls the album and is the only person allowed.  Porn is a very intimate affair, and I can understand the behavioral psychology in wanting to preserve your porn albums for yourself.  

However, we do have model albums for fashion models and gay pornstars, where it might make sense to allow many users to  contribute to one album.  

This is certainly a complex challenge without any easy path for us.  Most solutions requires a technical change at the software level to change default settings, and it's always difficult to change things once a section has matured.  With that said, I look forward to seeing AdonisMale grow both our content and our users.  We recently hit half a million images in our gallery and we have more fun and games in our forums, and it's been so gratifying to see the community grow by leaps and bounds.