About your forum

[Cierra]

Do you have an "About" page or thread anywhere on your forum? Do you think having one is useful?

 

[Deleted member 17779]

In some instances, I think it can be. In other instances, I don't think it is required.

If you have a general discussion forum, I don't necessarily think one would be required. If you have a forum with a very specific niche', I can see where an "About" page would be helpful.

 

[Ravenfreak]

I think an "about me" page is only good on certain forums that have specific niches... Like Grimalkin said, a "about me" page for a general discussion forum, it doesn't really make sense. However if your forum is about a specific niche that maybe only you and a handful of other people might know about then a "about me" page works. I also think forums for different clans should have "about me" pages, just to let guests know what their forum is about.

 

[Cosmic]

My old forum had an about page, and also FP kind of has one (The Guide page). I don't think these are essential, but a nice touch. I always kind them hard to write though. 😛

 

[Mikaya]

No, but there is a welcome message (which is displayed to guests and not-logged-in users) with a little info about the community. It's a gaming forum, so I don't think it personally needs a essay on what it's about. 😛

 

[IdealForums]

I personally have a navbar where people can read about it, not fully described though.

 

[TellerMorrow34]

On ours we don't necessarily have an about page. We just have a small rules page and a little introduction/site type thing so people can sort of get a feel for what the place is if they just happened to stumble across it.

 

[nekoite]

I think a nice alternative for general boards (or any niche really), would be a page noting key events in your forum's history.

Most good forums have a history behind them, that new members generally never learn about; it'd be a good way of letting them know common parts of your board culture, and letting people in on inside jokes.

 

[Thomasss]

My old forum had an about page, and also FP kind of has one (The Guide page). I don't think these are essential, but a nice touch. I always kind them hard to write though. 😛

This^

I find them way to hard to write. I had a help doc written up all about the forum which seemed to help some but in most cases it's generally easy to find out what a forum is all about by looking at boards and the theme itself.

 

[Gizmo]

No generally if people have questions they can email or post in the feedback section.

 

[Izaya]

I did at one time but not anymore. I should probably look into remaking it 😀

 

[Esper]

Never really had one besides a rules page, unless you are talking about staff about me, then yes.

 

[Kolmias]

We don't have an About page although we only started yesterday. 😛

 

[Page]

Nope. Just to tweet size message that I have on my footer.

People don't like to read long message's anyway. Not sure I need one

 

[Attie]

-- On mine many of us tend not to actually come with an in relation to webpage. Most of us just possess a modest regulations webpage and also a very little introduction/site variety factor thus individuals can almost have a sense pertaining to exactly what the place will be whenever they just transpired to help stagger throughout this.