Pre-Launch Review
Site Name: Rap Battle Us
Site Type: Music
Age: ~5 days
Appearance
I like the variety of colors you used on the forum; they work very well with the theme of rap music and is very appropriate. The header of the forum looks very nice and clearly makes it known that the forum is centered on rap music. Even the forum icons go with it! It’s very nicely done and I like the way you decided to utilize MyBB here. There’s really nothing much to improve in this area, although I’d like to add that you could change the “Rap Battle Us” text right above the forum to something that makes it fit in. It just looks like it stands out in a bad way amidst the colorful arrangement of text. You could also just delete this since you already have the forum logo name the site so redundancy is reduced.
Layout
I like the different categories you chose as your on-topic forums. It’s original, authentic, and quite logical. I would personally move the Introductions to the top of the forum, and make a separate forum for it under “Hall of Fame”, because I don’t really think this would fit under Miscellaneous Discussions. Other than that, there’s a reasonable amount of forums that allows people to expound on their discussions and at this point you made a good choice as to the quantity and quality of your forum’s overall layout. Very well done and it’s looking very good.
First Impressions and Interest
My first impression was a positive one, though I’m not into rap music a lot, it definitely communicates the idea that the forum is about this kind of music. All of the aforementioned aspects of your forum were what really drew me in. There’s a clear message to what the forum is about, and what you could talk about and these will definitely engage your members into a good discussion about rap music. I commend you on doing a great job considering your guests when creating the forum and allowing them to discuss topics not usually talked about. Even I might be able to post in some, though again, I’m not a huge rap person! The appeal to your audience is spot-on.
Content
The content overall isn’t too bad, though I did notice a bit of profanity that wasn’t censored, which made me stand back a little. A good portion of them are a bit short too, and the posts could be longer especially in the on-topic areas. On the flipside, some posts are really good and rich in content as they contain rap lyrics. I know that rap is a form of music and poetry with a beat to it so integrating these things into a forum really boosts its value. I encourage more of this in the future and less of the posts that contain just about one sentence long (without the punctuation might I add!).
Words from the Reviewer
This was definitely a pleasing forum to review. The only thing you now to consider is getting your appropriate audience and having active members engaging in the discussions. Do that and your forum will surely get off the ground fairly quickly. Best of luck!
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