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Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance - (Out of 20)
Your logo is amazing! It really suits the theme of your site, and it has a lot of eye appeal. Although I don't generally like light themes, I am quite fond of yours. It's a light theme, but it's not so white that it feels like I'm staring at a lightbulb.I generally don't like light blue mixed with white, but it really works in your theme. Your site has a lot of aesthetic appeal.
Your site is also appealing from an activity standpoint. The statistics are quite impressive; you have a good amount of posts and members. You also have had several members active within the past twenty-four hours. You do not have any empty forums, either. Overall, I think that members would be very impressed with your statistics at a glance.
My first impression of your site was wonderful!
(Scored 20/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Your index runs a little long, and it appears to be a tad disorganized. There aren't a ton of ways I can suggest to reorganize your index, but I can see a couple. Firstly, I would recommend making "Sports" a sub-forum under "Hobbies." Secondly, I would recommend making "Promote Your Site" a sub-forum under "Forum & Website Discussions" and moving the latter forum to the "More Discussions & Extras" category. This will make your layout a bit more balanced. I also question the necessity of having a "Contests" forum on your index; you only have eight topics in that forum, and your site has been up for about five months. Therefore, I think it might be a little better to simply post contest topics in your "Announcements" forum (they also may get more attention that way, since they'd be at the top of the forum). Not only would these changes help balance your layout a bit more, but they would also make your site look more active by "squeezing" the posts together a little more. These are just a few suggestions; if you can find any other ways to condense your index or balance it a little more, then go for it.
(Scored 16/20)
Statistics and Activity - (Out of 20)
According to my calculations, your forum receives an average of approximately ninety posts per day. You have about fifty posts for each of your two hundred and ninety-three members. That's pretty good, but a bit of improvement would still be nice. Post exchanges are still an option to give your forum a little nudge in activity since your forum. However, post exchanges won't be very valuable for much longer. I also recommend signing up on other general discussion forums (they're definitely out there) and posting around wearing your signature banner. Most general discussion forums also have advertisement sections that you can utilize. Services on Forum Promotion and abroad such as banner ads and text ads may also be helpful. Assuming your advertisement banner looks as awesome as the banner in the heading on your site, it may attract some eyes.
(Scored 19/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
Currently, your forum employs two administrators and two moderators. That seems like a good amount of staff members for a community of your size. Your staff members all appear to be very active on the forum. That is good; having staff members who post often make a forum appear to be taken care of. Your staff members also appear to do a good job of generating content and welcoming new members. Overall, I do not think that your forum has any staffing issues.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism - (Out of 20)
Your descriptions have a few grammar mistakes here and there, but those aren't as much of an issue as your descriptions themselves. Your descriptions are bland and robotic. They don't make your forums sound very interesting or fun to post in. I would recommend writing some new descriptions for your forums that give your forum a voice. After all, your forum isn't a business forum; it is a forum dedicated to having fun. Shouldn't your forums have some more fun descriptions? Your forum descriptions don't have to be intricate gems of literary genius, but they do need to tell members what your forum is about. If your forum is laid back and light-hearted, then maybe you should throw a little humor into your descriptions. If your forum is friendly, then make your descriptions sound welcoming to new users. Just don't make your forum sound like a boring place where nobody has any fun whatsoever when that isn't true at all.
If you choose to take my advice and change some of your descriptions, then we can talk about grammar in a follow-up review.
(Scored 14/20)
Score - 89 (Out of 100)
Closing remarks: Your forum is doing well, but there are still some things that could be changed to improve it even more.
Forum's strong points: Your forum's theme is very appealing to the eye.
Improvements to make: Your forum's layout could use some fine-tuning. I also think you could use some more enthusiastic descriptions.
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