Re: Promoting new (and sadly memberless pretty much) forum
Is my forum really that bad?
It got 0/10 on a review.
However, as the site is down right now, or at least for me it is. Don't know how Tindris got in.
Anyway, I'm going to make entire board one style.
Nothing will be quite perfect looking, ever.
I nned more members all the same.
However, while my forum is down, I've going to reformulate the structure for it.
1.) I think I should only have demo category, including style demos, available to admins and mods.
2.) I'd like to get a real admin and/or mod to help. I'm trying to get two at the moment actually.
3.) I'm going to try my best on the style, though a defectless style seems unlikely as I'm not my own designer.
4.) If all goes well, I may, in future, buy a TLD, though I'd prefer to win one from FP.
Just as long as my site doesn't crash or become impossible to view if the FP domain expires.
5.) I'm going to decrease number of usergroups. Maybe, other than admin, mod, regular user, and banned, I may only make one new usergroup for every say, 100 users I get, and if I get a lot, the amount might increase to say, every say, 10000 users I get.
6.) Will try to decrease the amount of categories (or at least make them more refined.)
7.) While refusing to cease being an Ahsoka lovers' forum, I will try and make it more friendly toward non-Ahsoka fans. I may even ease up the rules, though not totally. I'm not giving up the reason I made the forum in the first place.
8.) I've tried post exchange but nobody is replying, even though I've helped some of them but they haven't helped back. I can try again though.
9.) I need regular members but don't know how to keep them.
10.) I should probably get rid of all the links, including those who posted here, as it might look unprofessional. The only ones I should probably keep are Jedi Council Forums and the Ahsoka Tano wiki page link and the link to a map of the Star Wars galaxy (another wiki page.) May later include a link to Wookipedia main page.
11.) Sometimes I got weird lightsaber images over the subforums and can't seem to get rid of them, though, believe me, I've tried. Also, I can't always tell what others can view. Once I tested a style out and the preview was different from how it actually looked in the forum itself.
12.) Maybe I shouldn't let everyone make polls, at least not til they get a certain rank or get put in a certain group. However, if the forum takes off enough, this could be a nightmare adding people to the group that allows them to make polls, I can't, that I know of, set it so that the poll making is based on user rank.
13.) I should probably make it so that guests can only post in the Guest Forum, like I did in the past.
14.) However, to get more people in, I'm going to allow the other side, the view opposed to me and my forum's view, to get at least a whole category to defend and justify their beliefs without having to break the rules.
15.) I may hide Mod and Admin forum to only be visible to mods and admins and therefore not need the password anymore.
16.) I'll probably set the account email confirmation to discourage spammers and so the forum will look more professional.
