Medium Forum Review
First ImpressionsThe first impressions for your forum are not the best. The theme, you definitely need to change because it doesn't look proper. First of all, there is a wall of text and links at the top of your forum, secondly, I don't understand how you can have a theme with a mix of colors like that, a black with maximum intensity with a shadowed blue doesn't make your theme look incredible. Sorry if that sounded harsh, but your forum definitely needs room for improvement as far as appearance goes. I also forgot to mention that you have some anime images for forum icons, this might get confusing for some people as most forums just have normal icons instead of images. ( I'm just letting you know that you may PM me if that sounds rude.) Anyway, as the first impressions continues, I'm going to talk about how your activity looks. Your forum LOOKS kind of dead, you should create more topics in your forums and all of that stuff that will make your forum look even better in ratios of activity, etc.
Appearance Like I said, your appearance must be fixed. I think you should fix all of that text and links at the top of the forum and just create a notice in the news forum, it's unnecessary to make such a large amount of text at the top, especially becajuse there are other methods of handling such important groups of text like that. Anyways, with that said, including the text WITH the banner size, it might get annoying having to scroll down a whole bunch to see the actual forum when refreshing and loading the page. Now that that is said, I can continue to say that your theme is abosuletly fine, the format should be the same, and the blue should stay, but the black just makes it look weird, like blue and black don't go together in my eyes. There are better themes on the internet that you can download, and if you made the theme yourself, you are clearly talented, but you could do better. One thing I do like about the forum is the fact that the banner looks awesome. You have a bunch of anime characters in it, and the text you used looks cool. All you need to change is the text at the top of the forum and the black parts at your forum, replace it with white or something, I'm absolutely sure that you can everybody can use their creativity when it comes to making (or choosing) a theme for him/her forum, and that includes you. One thing I do suggest is experimenting with a theme and find the best one for you. Then you can edit or just simply add it to your forum if you want to. (Which is what I would do if I were you). Like I only said, I'm not saying your theme is terrible or anything too harsh, I'm just trying to make you understand that your theme could be partially fixed.
😉 Don't forget that you could get a bunch of themes and keep your current one as the default if you haven't already if you don't want to completely get rid of your theme forever. Good luck choosing a theme, I think you should go for lighter themes if you are going to get a couple new themes, though!
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Ratios You have 17 posts per day, which is good because your forum started in August. I can tell you don't have new members often, which is a shame and I will leave hints around the review. The good part is, out of all of your 40 registered users, people must like your forum because on average your members have 82 posts per day. That is awesome. I will tell you some other statistics you have, you have 119 posts per week according to my calculator (lol) and you have 510 posts per month in September, April, June, and November because they have 30 days, and 527 on months with 31 days, so you have a great deal. Your activity/ratios are flawless and the tips I can give you are that do what you think is the best and keep the forum alive as well as do what you've been doing better than ever and your forum will be more successful (in activity/members posting, anyway) so I don't have much further comments, your forum is actually above my expectations.
Posts Your activity is fine, in six months you have 3317 posts (as of now, so if you get confused if the ratios aren't right, then don't blame me) which is great. Just try to be as friendly as you can and make the members at your forum feel as comfortable as possible with your forum. Advertise your forum well, make sure to spread the word as much as possible (e.g. 3300 posts and counting, friendly role playing forum, etc.) and if you continue doing what you have been doing to get the forum this far already, than you will definitely be a proud, successful forum owner. Never give up, think about the forums successfulness as of now, and remember how it has gotten this far and I hope this review encourages you to keep your forum alive 24/7. As long as you pay attention, I'm sure your forum can be perfect if you wait long enough. Let everything that is helping your forum happen, if you think anything will annoy/drive the members away, or even decrease your activity or lesser your guest's chance of joining your forum, don't take any chances because your forum should be getting much farther in this phase (or stage) of the forum, because I'm sure your forum can be a lot better than it already is right now.
Content The quality of your content is impressive, but I think you should create more content that takes role-playing more in-depth, everything just looks kind of dull in my opinion. I think instead of putting your forum on the track of turning into just an average role-playing forum, you need to go way more in-depth with the content and take all of the RPG elements that you already have (you have great RPG elements, which is spectacular for a role-playing forum like yours) and take all the quality of content you already have, and spend it on making some more topics. This may attract content to your forum, not only that, but even impress new members, or even valued members a matter of fact, with your quality PLUS the amount of content you have. I'm absolutely sure that you can do this, and you should for the sake of your forum. I'm sure that if your current members are fine with the content you currently have (or not), either way, making this change should have a huge change to your forum. You should do this because it would help out your forum. Since your member rate isn't the best out there, this could be like magic for your forum. Whenever you think you are ready for such a big change like this, or if you will do it immediately, make sure to do this because I'm sure this is the most important thing that a forum, espeically a role-playing forum like yours, can have.
Final Remarks The content is good, but the theme should be fixed. Your activity is also nice.
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