Your Quick Review
Pros:
- Having a Facebook "group" is helpful for any kind of website, And also draws in more attention maybe of people who didn't even know a forum like yours could exist. So nice job utilizing every feature that would put your forum ahead of the rest.
- The arcade looks to be a good addon for your forums, It does bring in traffic and people are using it. This is a feature that you could make it so only VIP users get access to. Why would you do that? Well because than there are features that only "Donators" and or "veterans" can get which makes people want to either donate or be a active users on your forums. But this option is totally up to you and your community.
- Having more sections than just sports is a plus for you, As it's always good to get off topic within a forum. So nice job making it more sections than just sports
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- Your activity is great. There was always at least 5-10 people on at once. Which means that your community is liking what your doing. So nice job keeping your sport members with you!
Cons:
- When registering my own account I noticed that you make your users have to activate their accounts through e-mail. This makes people a bit more lazy as some will do it however a majority of them will
NOT. I think you should make it so it's instantly accessible.
Also after registering admins have to moderate new users posts, Having both of these options going at once. Defiantly made me not want to even think about logging on again. So you really should loosen up on both these features.
- If your going to have a chat center, Why not make it go within the website. There is a shoutbox mod for IP. Board. It's called inferno shoutbox lite. Having a chat off the website isn't necessarily bad however it isn't very professional.
- Some forums are "Protected" Yet regular users can see them. This is not the best idea in my opinion because not only do I get the feeling that I want to "spam" to see whats hidden right away. It just brings things like spamming on board your forums. So try and make it hidden and only seen by those groups you want it to be seen by.
- I understand Iv said this before however, Even the bookie is user group accessed but only certain people can use it. Just don't display the feature unless every group can see it. This only certain groups features is what makes your forums a bit of a down fall.
Also why is the affiliates blocked too, I really didn't enjoy trying to do this review, Now I understand you gave an account however. I am starting to register to get a full view on people's forums. So Why is affiliates blocked from regular users? Or whatever your first usergroup may be.
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Final/General Thoughts:
I really enjoyed your site style was great, However some things just didn't make sense like forums being seen when they shouldn't and bookie & affiliates being blocked?
What was most liked about the website/forums:
The sections you had everything you would need for a sporting forums.
What was disliked most about the website/forums:
Seeing things that I couldn't use.
Final Score : Score - 6.0 (Out of 10)
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