ChatterBuzz
Review by Kino
Design Quality
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Alright so I decided to do design quality first for your site because it's a forum. When I look into joining a forum I make sure that the site design is appealing to me. If the site looks too dark, too light, the text is too small, too big, etc.
So I took a look at all of your themes, personally I liked the purple theme the most. It was unique and a color you don't often see on a forum, especially a general discussion forum. The carbon theme is okay. I see that it's what you use when guests view the site. I like the chatbox on it and for the amount of work you've put in, that looks the nicest.
So the only problem with different forum themes is that it's hard to coordinate a logo because of all the color schemes. What you can do though is have the text be the same color and get a logo that you just change the color scheme on to match whichever theme you will use. So that way the logo stays universal and people can still associate that logo with your forum.
Overall, the design is okay. It seems simple to navigate, looks clear, so overall it's a decent theme.
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Good
Site Statistics
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Not 100% sure when your site started, but I'm guessing May, 2015?
Okay so I'm looking at your total posts first - 1,227 total posts, 173 topics, with 87 members. So about 14 posts per member. Those aren't the best stats for four months. You should probably be closer to about 5,000. Stimulating conversations is what brings people back so that must be your number one priority.
I would try and really build your content level up. Your primary areas of a lot of posts are: Entertainment, Other, and Introductions. You have 87 members and 182 posts in that area. That's quite a bit of posts. I would really dissuade you from making Forum Games your most active section. That's a way to get quick posts with absolutely zero content. Try and build up your World News section (just go on news websites and share links and make comments). Build up the life section (with just generalities about life). Also, the electronics section is its own category so you should totally build up all of those forums. You can use websites like
http://www.ebizmba.com/articles/gadget-websites. Also, maybe change the category name from Electronics, to Technology. It would fit better.
Overall, you need to focus your forum on the quality of content. Make meaningful posts, great conversation topics, and don't give up. Nobody can blame you for posting 50 times a day. You should be doing that anyway.
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Poor
Spelling & Professionalism
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So this is the only section that I found that relates to what I want to talk to you about.
So I mentioned in a previous post about organizing your ideas better. Again, I think that you really need to sit down and write everything out. You need to write down your likes and dislikes, interests, things you love to talk about, etc. This way you can center the forum around stuff that you are passionate about. That leads you to creating a website you can be super proud of and active on because you really care about the subjects you have posted.
The other thing I wanted to touch on is your forum descriptions. Make them longer to fill in space. I'll give you an example.
For your Gaming Consoles forum: "Love your Xbox? Do you game all of the time and have a serious passion for it? Come on in and talk all about anything related to gaming." It asks a question, is a little more interesting than a bland statement, and drags people in.
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Average
Final Remarks
You have a good start here. With a little bit of work and use of my suggestions, I think you can really pull off a good website.
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