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Hello everyone

It has been a little while since our last big (ish) update. During that time we haven't just been sitting back and enjoying ourselves (I wish we could :yes: ). Based on users feedback recently, users wanted more updates and more ways to spend forum cash in order to make it worth while. We have 2 service related announcements today satisfying both of those suggestions we have received.

Featured Forum is back!

It has been a long while since this service was last active. This service used to take hours weekly for us to update this service with 10 sites in rotation. In a way to not only make this service easier for us to manage but to also make it more worthwhile for members, we have made some important changes. From now on, both Featured Forums will be fixed (non rotating). This means it will be alot quicker for us to update weekly and it will give the 2 sites alot more exposure. This is now our high value service and the service we feel is the most effective service we offer here.

Click here the view the "Featured Forum" forum - viewforum.php?f=85

New Service - Ad Bubble

As you might have noticed already, there is a little speech bubble of link ads that appear under the first post on every page. This bubble of links is situated in a prime position to get exposure. Rather the placing it after the content on just the forum index page or putting it right down in the overall footer, we have put it in a place where people have to see the ads. Whenever someone reads a topic they will have to scroll past these ads to read the rest of the topic or reply. This means that users will pay alot more attention to these ads compared to the other positions as the links are situated right in the middle of the main content of the page. On average, recently we have been getting 1000+ posts per day on this forum which means that on atleast 1000 occasions people have to go over these ads so it does get seen by many. Think how many guests we have and how many people that actually read topics and don't reply during that day. It can be quite effective.

For more information or to request this service, read here - viewforum.php?f=106

We hope you enjoy these new updates and we hope it shows that we are still looking for ways to move this forum forward. As always, we want to hear your feedback on the changes and the new service (positive and negative!). We hope to bring some more changes to the forum soon so keep looking here for further announcements!
 
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This is a great new service. Good work, admins. <3
 
Good to see the Featured Forums back but honestly, I'm not a big fan of the new service, I don't really like adverts in topics myself.
 
Great work Fowler.

I didn't realise you were a scott mills fan (or gavin and stacey) 😛
 
:lol:

I am not a Scott Mills fan really but I do like that feature 😀

Thanks for the feedback so far everyone.
 
The new service is very unique, but I don't think that it will give much exposure to the advertisements.
 
Glad there is a new update and good work on it 🙂

I personally don't like the new service and the viewtopic is now nearly covered with ads. But at least its new and another reason to spend FP Cash 😉
 
Oh, I love the new service! 😀 I wish I could come up with ideas like you 😛 Good luck with the services! 😀
 
To be honest, I knew it was a matter of time before something was added under the first post, as it's now officially a "common" ad placement on bigger boards. I don't really love the way you did it with the links to be honest, and the whole "cloud idea" has been done before (someone even used CSS to make the links appear over the image of a cloud).

However, it's good to see the board moving forward, and i'm sure the next addition will be powered by feedback from this one.
 
Thanks for the constructive feedback. It is only a first version so to speak and can and probably will be altered based on feedback. While the idea is not 100% unique, we have tried to put our own little spin on it to make it slightly different from other forums as best we can.

We have in the past added services and then removed them if they don't work well. We don't know what peoples opinions on things are until we release them and we never know if how well they will be welcomed. We are also never going to please everyone. I think just some time to get used to it will make it ok. It is just because it is very "new" still.
 
I think it's really nice.

And I love the way the links moves around so everyone gets a chance to shine 🙂
 
Love the new feature, thanks to those who put the time and effort in to bring us this new feature.
 
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