Large Forum Review
First Impressions The first impressions of this forum are pretty nice. You have this neat theme that is dark, which I'm sure members really like. Your forum also looks active, especially active enough to join with a smile. One thing though, that might really get the member's piece of mind to float away is the fact that your forum names aren't catchy and your descriptions are very short and state the obvious. You need to make a point/twist to it. Your forum seems very welcoming to a guest, I'm sure the people viewing your forum are most likely to join than not to join, but that is just from my opinion, other people may think differently.
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(Score: 14/15)
Appearance The appearance of your forum is well done. The banner is plain, though. That is one thing on your theme that you should improve as well as the theme being plain,I see that you have a background, but I'm sure I'm not the only one that would like some change in the appearance. I'm sure some members would prefer a lighter theme as well, so don't forget to add one of those! Your theme is very plain, which doesn't make it totally amazing. You need to add more details, like I said, I think your theme is somewhat nice, but there is always room for improvement. I think you should be more creative with your theme is what I'm trying to say in a nutshell. I'm definitely 100% sure that you could take that theme and improve it, give it a try!
(Score: 15/20)
Statistics and Activity Your activity is incredible, only open for roughly two weeks and the forum already has 916 posts! Impressive. I don't have very many recommendations, but one thing I can suggest is keep on doing what you are doing and hopefully your forum can become more of a success than it already is so far. Great job.
(Score: 20/20)
Ratios Your forum has about 68 posts per day, which is awesome for only being up for 12 days! You also have about eight posts per member, which is great for a forum starting out. You will find out what to keep doing correctly and what not to do later in the review (you will see), like I said, the only suggestion I have is just to keep doing what your doing and let it happen, your forum should be more successful than it is right now in a few months or so. I hope your forum doesn't go downhill, I don't have many comments for this but I hope my suggestion is really encouraging you.
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(Score: 10/10)
Content Your forums content isn't above or below expectations. In some places it is fine, but first of all, I think the Managing your Forum section could be improved with more threads on software, and the General Discussion can be more packed with interesting things so that the members who are tired of promoting their forum can sit back and relax, keep posting nice content, but try to keep it simple enough in some of the sections of your forum, because it might start to annoy your members, which would not be a good thing because your forum is off to an amazing start.
(Score: 17/20)
Navigation Navigation is different here, since you are using SMF and the designs are weird, it is extremely difficult to navigate through the forum. You should move the statistics to the bottom of your forum, and you should remove the registration/logout panel and replace it with just a simple button like it is on most of the forums you join these days. I think you should begin to inch your way to make your forum easier to navigate through like the modern navigation system on the forums that you see promoted around. I'm sure it's possible to get used to, but I don't think just getting around the forum should be as complicated as it is.
(Score: 10/15)
Total Score
86/100
Final Remarks I think that your theme is nice, but hard to navigate through. Your activity is mind-blowing as well as the ratios of your forum that go along with the activity. Your forum is definitely getting big.
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