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Originally Posted by Klion D'Gar  Food For Thoughts -
1) UOFORUMS is small fry. It only had 926 registered members which isn't even a tenth of what F4G had. Hell Grd's forums alone boasted 125 members before they crashed the other day. This isn't intended as a dig at UOFORUMS because they seem to have an excellent community - but it's their community not the Europa roleplay community. |
And let me ask you something, how many of those members actively posted?
The reason there's "only" 926 registered members, is because every 90 days, I prune the member list of those who haven't logged in for 90 days and have less than 1 post (0 posts in other words)
If I didn't do that, it's more than likely we would be over 10,000 members by now, the amount of times it's peaked at 1000 members before dropping back down to 500 or so due to me purging the member count....well it's happened alot, hehe.
Stratics for instance has over 100,000 accounts, but i'd be willing to wager money that less than 1000 of those accounts actually post.
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3) The layout of UOFORUMS and F4G is really bad. It's hard to find the forum you want, theres millions of links and the skins are bugged. If you want to attract players you need to pour effort into improving the first thing potential members will see - your website and forums.
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Feedback is appreciated, what is buggy about the UOForums skin? what's so bad about it?
It's not hard to find the forum you want, everything in in categories
The great thing about VBulletin is you can shrink the forums you don't want to see, so only those you DO want to see, show up on the main page.
The option of removing entire categories/forums from view is also available once i've found the modification I want on vb.org.
And as I said in another post, if your there to post in a specific area, like a guild forum, all the GM has to do, is request a "quick link" to be setup, so all you'd need to do, is goto
www.uoforums.com/core (For example)
Then there's no searching.
But please, if there's something i'm missing about the design being buggy, i'd appreciate it if you let me know.
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4) The person who 'owns' the forums needs to be someone who is unbiased and pretty cool headed. No disrespect intended but some of the names being bandied around shouldnt be trusted with control of forums since they are too hotheaded.
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I hope ya don't mean me :P
To be honest, I don't get involved with what's posted on the forums, I concentrate on the technical and maintanance side, so I am completely unbiased
I'm just there to maintain the place and fix it if anything goes wrong.