Your Forum Review
First Impressions & Appearance
I like the look of the banner, but what is your forum about? Try to make it knows what your forum is about in the banner. Add a slogan that would make it clear, or some pictures. I did notice you have a slogan because it says it in the Info Center in the footer. Just add it to the banner. I don’t like how much white there is, try adding a little bit more blue or something, maybe as forum borders or something. Or replace the gray on the very sides with dark blue and see how it looks. The majority of your members do seem to like it though. I don’t like seeing Shoutbox’s. I feel like it takes posts away from the forum. Random chat should go into the General Discussion forum or something, but never a shoutbox. It also makes your forum look less classy and professional. I didn’t realize this was an SMF forum. I had no idea what software you were running until I looked in the footer. I normally hate SMF and It’s my least favorite software, but it looks good. Good job!
(Score: 15/20)
Site Layout
I feel like there are too many forums on the index. Maybe make the Minecraft section a subforum under Forum Games. The Arts forum is barely getting any posts and should either be made into a subforum or General Discussion or just merged into it. The order of your forums is great!
(Scored 18/20)
Statistics and Activity
Your forum has been open for 34 days. You have 4741 posts made in 586 topics by 311 members. You are averaging 9.15 new members, 17.24 topics, and 139.44 posts each day. All of those stats are great. Each member averages 1.88 threads and 15.24 posts. That means that not all of your members are posting. You have quite a few really active members, which is good, but try and do something extra to get the rest of those members posting. Most of your forums are getting posts daily, but there are a couple that isn’t. Such as ‘The Arts’ I already said to merge it with General Discussion or something. Most of your Game forums aren’t getting that many posts. Try creating a couple threads in all of the forums except for Console Gaming that might generate some discussion. ‘What’s your favorite game’ threads aren’t that great, but it does generate a little bit of discussion. It might also introduce new games to some people which could then make more discussion in those forums. Your graphics forums seem a little dead as well. Graphics discussion needs to get a couple more threads. The other 2 won’t always have discussion as people don’t always need graphics and they don’t always have some graphics to show off. Most members don’t seem to be using the ‘Newspaper Stand’ forum. In the ‘Support & Tips Counter’, try adding a few guides or something. Those will always get some discussion going. Overall your activity is great. Just work on those few forums and then getting more members to be active.
(Scored 16/20)
Staff Moderation
From what I’ve found, there are 3 admins (2 head admins and 1 normal admin). One head admin has 951 posts and is averaging 28.82 posts per day, the other has 355 and is averaging 13.15 posts per day, and the other admin has 321 posts and is averaging 9.73 posts per day. Together, you 3 have 34.3% of your forum’s total posts. All 3 of you are doing a great job of trying to create discussion around the forum and are making sure things are kept in hand. Keep up the good work. If there’s any more staff, it’s a good thing I didn’t find them, because they’re not very active from what I can see. I’m pretty sure there’s just the 3 of you though. Add a link or a thread somewhere that shows who all of the staff are. I looked and couldn’t find one. If there is one somewhere, sorry.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling/Grammar & Professionalism
Everywhere you have ‘ect.’ Change it to ‘etc.’ It’s a common mistake and I used to make it all the time. ‘etc.’ is the correct abbreviation though. I noticed it in a couple forum descriptions. In the Forum Advertisements forum, you have a ‘Youtube Advertisements’ subforum, capitalize the T in YouTube. Under the ‘Support & Tips Counter’ forum, you have a subforum called ‘Exchangements’, that’s not a ward. Change it to ‘Exchanges’ or something that’s actually a word. Fix those couple mistakes, and you’re good to go here.
(Scored 18/20)
Total Score - 87/100
Final Remarks
Strong Points
Your staff team and the amount of member that are active.
Things to Improve
Get those couple forums some posts, and make sure that people can tell what the forum is about from the banner.
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