The Voice Internet Radio

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Name of Forum: The Voice Internet Radio
Forum Link: http://voiceradio.us
Type of Review ( Quick Review / Forum Review / Blog Review ): Quick
Date Forum Opened: January 2011
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Additional Notes: Thank you! Suggestions on how to boost activity/content are welcome in particular.

 

[Lone Wolf]

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[Lone Wolf]

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Pros
You have a nice light theme which is easy on the eyes. I also like your logo, that smiley face with the earphones goes well with the writing and I specifically like the music note used as the dot on top of the i. I think the playlist on the top right is a great idea, it gives members a chance to listen to various music while they browse the forum. The social networking icons on the right hand side are also using the smiley really well, great job. The activity so far is pretty good, over 1,000 posts with less than 100 members is a great start, I hope the activity continues to grow.

Cons
I don't like how I have to hover over a forum title to get the description to show. I think users like it better if they can read the description straight away. You have so many forums on your board and you don't even have 100 members yet. I counted 37 forums with 22 of them being sub-forums. I couldn't really see who was a staff member unless I went to a topic and one of them had posted in it. I like how the 'Who's Online' box shows the avatars instead of the username, but that might get frustrating for users. they can't actually see who's online because the usernames are visible by default, they have to hover over the images to know who each avatar belongs to. This might also slow down loading times if you get active. The more people that come online, the more images that will start showing.

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Final/General Thoughts

You should be proud of...
Your theme, logo and the playlist idea.

You really need to work on...
The amount of forums and the descriptions for each section.

Score - 7/10​

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[Trombones13]

FP Cash sent; thanks! I left a couple notes in my review rating post, but I wanted to mention a couple other things:

-The playlist block is important for it because the forum's tied into that radio station (hence the site name, haha), so I'm glad I'm able to use that to show what's playing and how to listen.
-Thanks for the props on our graphics; passing those along to the talented designer who made them. 🙂
-Like I said in the other post, I'll work on forum organization...they were even worse a couple weeks ago, haha.
-I guess I'm not sure what the advantage of seeing who the staff members are would be, but I will say that when one's online, they appear in a "Staff Online Now" block right above the member block. I'm working on getting a staff page added as well.
-The hover-over on forum descriptions is typical behavior for XenForo, the forum software we're using.
-I like the avatar-only approach I'm using with the Members Online Now list as well, but like you pointed out, it'll be an issue once the site's bigger; I plan on switching back to text only at that point. I have seen one XenForo forum that's set up like that and had 200+ members online at the time with no real issue in load time, though, so we'll see.

Thanks again!

 

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