Unbundling Reddit Doesn't Work: Learn From My Mistake

I am a credentialed teacher, who's taught at a few international schools around the globe. These days, I get to work full time on a couple of sites I built.

Everyday, I receive notifications from the r/internationalteachers thread with people posting great questions about teaching abroad, and then others sharing great responses. This thread is VERY active.

I took 3 hours a day for 8 days and built nomadicteachers.com, where I thought these fellow international teachers would love having their own Reddit-like forum, where you can DM, post anonymously, etc... but exclusively for the international teacher community.

I was wrong. I shared a link in Reddit to the forum site I built, and the majority vote was that, essentially, they just want to stay on Reddit.

Has anyone successfully took a community from Reddit onto their own site?

Thanks for reading, and I hope this saves anyone else with a similar idea for your niche energy and resources.