Your Forum Review
First Impressions - (Out of 20)
When I first arrived at your forum, I noticed the really nice banner. It looks really good, especially the font choices of it. Unfortunately, that's about where the good ends. Scrolling down to the forum part, this is one of the darkest forums I've ever seen. That would normally be fine, but the font is black, making it nearly unreadable. When you first come to forum, I usually like to have a quick read down to see all the forums and stuff like that, you know? At your forum it was really hard to do that because of the black-on-dark gray font.
(Scored 8/20)
Site Layout - (Out of 20)
Again, maybe it's just me, but this is NOT a type of theme I would use on a forum. Surely there's got to be some lighter themes out there? At least one with a lighter color on the font would do your forum so much better. Also, all the images are these dark grey colors. It seems the three colors are grey, black, and blue that I can see mostly around your forum. Unfortunately, they don't mix well. Pretty much the only thing that's easy to read is the blue links. Reading topics was a bit better, but still wasn't nearly as good as I had hoped. I know I keep saying this, but on every screen it's the black-on-gray font that bugs me. Also, the entire theme looks very outdated, and if I could make one single suggestion for your forum, I would say drop the entire theme. Also, this may just be the forum software you're using or may be the theme, but what's with the forum view (viewing list of topics) being all squished together and little, but once inside a topic everything's huge? One more thing, I found it frustrating that when I wanted to return to the index the big banner opened a whole new tab.
(Scored 3/20)
Forum Statistics - (Out of 20)
Your forum opened on January 10th, 2009 you said. Your member count is great for that date. You have a little over 2K posts. Is that bad? Absolutely not. It's not mindblowing but it's not bad at all. Now, actually on the forums though it can make it seem inactive because some of your forums have little to no posts on them. Then, some others have tons of posts. I would suggest possibly merging/deleting some of the forums with no activity. Other than that, your activity seems fine.
(Scored 15/20)
Staff Moderation - (Out of 20)
I had trouble with this one. Your groups aren't visible to guests and so I couldn't get an exact amount of staff. Looking at the index, I see 2 mods listed for each forum, though. If that's the case, then I suppose that's fine, but I wouldn't hire anymore until your activity picks up a bit. I couldn't tell though how many admins you have, but around the forum, it didn't seem like too many at all.
(Scored 20/20)
Spelling and Grammar - (Out of 20)
It's not horrible, but it's certainly not perfect. On your index, a lot of your forums lack appropriate punctuation. For example, here's one of your board descriptions, "Discuss KZ2 gameplay and glitches " You need a period at the end of that, quite a few are like that. Also, the capitalization isn't good. This: "Tell Everyone who you are!" for example. Everyone in that sentence should be lowercase. This one: "The Sites News Will Be Here!" lacks a ' in "Site's" and nothing besides the should be capitalized. If you wanted to emphasize it, perhaps make it, "The site's news will be HERE!" or something. Also, I noticed some people on your forum, staff included, like to talk in txting language. (Saying u instead of you, leaving at puncuation, etc.) That isn't really appealing to read at all.
(Scored 10/20)
Total Score - (Out of 100)
Final Remarks: Your website seemed to have a nice community, but was not visually appealing at all.
What was most liked about the website/forums: Well, I liked how you've really gotten a lot of members and posts in a short time. I also liked the banner, and some of your forum's features looked neat.
What was disliked most about the website/forums: The theme. Seriously, that's the main issue. If you switched it, your forum would look so much better. It would make more people want to join and read your forum. Also, the grammar needs to be improved. Some of the forums had little-to-no posts.
How could I get you (The Reviewer) to join my website? If you swtiched the theme, improved the grammar, etc.
(Final Score 56/100)
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