Wober Discussion Community - Your thoughts?
- Thread starter Nebulous
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I must say that it looks simply amazing. I loved it when you were on IPB with the theme and now that you are on MyBB with the same theme, it just looks great. The activity has always been great, and has only grown. Overall, you have one great community! Also, grats' on 25K!
First Impressions (/25)
Wow! This is great! I love the cute logo, and the board looks super welcoming! I don’t know the reasoning behind the creature on the logo, so maybe make sure it makes sense to newbies, but it did make me laugh for sure. The domain name is also short which makes it nice and simple, and also memorable. Overall, great first impression.
Section Mark: 23/25
Design (/30)
This theme honestly looks so great, one of the best that I’ve seen for Mybb. It does almost seem like its IPB. Each section/category has a unique image that represents what it’s for. Nice job, as it looks super attractive. The navigation bar is simple but adequate. I’d like it if it worked in such a way that when I panned over a new section to click, the box would follow and hover over the text rather than the word just light up. The colours go super well together to create a professional but welcoming atmosphere. The buttons at the bottom listing the forum stats (numbers) look a bit rushed and low quality but they work and aren’t super noticeable to an extent that I can’t stand it.
Section Mark: 31/35
Activity and Content (/30)
First of all, I’ll check out the member activity base. It appears that multiple users are online at the same time which is good. You have a decent number of users in the recently online list, but it is for 48 hours, not 24. For users to get a better sense of your board activity I’d recommend you switch it to 24. Let’s check out the staff post total ratio to the overall amount of posts. Jazzy has made nearly 50,700 posts. Theezy has made roughly 32,500 posts. Lastly, Evil Eye has made just over 46,000. It adds up to 129,200 posts just made by staff. That’s 38% of the forums posts. Coming from just three staff members, that’s a lot, and I feel like the members have less to do with the posting activity. Rather than over-post, try and get members posting just as much as you. It looks much better on the forum. Theezy and Jazzy are also the top 2 posters in the last 30 days, topping all the members’ posts by a considerately large amount. Your board also isn’t super active as well considering someone with only 235 posts in 30 days is on the list. That’s not terrible, but not great either. Engaging members is the key. Posts appear to be medium quality, again, nothing terrible, but nothing great either.
Section Mark: 15/40
Overall: 69%
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Wow! This is great! I love the cute logo, and the board looks super welcoming! I don’t know the reasoning behind the creature on the logo, so maybe make sure it makes sense to newbies, but it did make me laugh for sure. The domain name is also short which makes it nice and simple, and also memorable. Overall, great first impression.
Section Mark: 23/25
Design (/30)
This theme honestly looks so great, one of the best that I’ve seen for Mybb. It does almost seem like its IPB. Each section/category has a unique image that represents what it’s for. Nice job, as it looks super attractive. The navigation bar is simple but adequate. I’d like it if it worked in such a way that when I panned over a new section to click, the box would follow and hover over the text rather than the word just light up. The colours go super well together to create a professional but welcoming atmosphere. The buttons at the bottom listing the forum stats (numbers) look a bit rushed and low quality but they work and aren’t super noticeable to an extent that I can’t stand it.
Section Mark: 31/35
Activity and Content (/30)
First of all, I’ll check out the member activity base. It appears that multiple users are online at the same time which is good. You have a decent number of users in the recently online list, but it is for 48 hours, not 24. For users to get a better sense of your board activity I’d recommend you switch it to 24. Let’s check out the staff post total ratio to the overall amount of posts. Jazzy has made nearly 50,700 posts. Theezy has made roughly 32,500 posts. Lastly, Evil Eye has made just over 46,000. It adds up to 129,200 posts just made by staff. That’s 38% of the forums posts. Coming from just three staff members, that’s a lot, and I feel like the members have less to do with the posting activity. Rather than over-post, try and get members posting just as much as you. It looks much better on the forum. Theezy and Jazzy are also the top 2 posters in the last 30 days, topping all the members’ posts by a considerately large amount. Your board also isn’t super active as well considering someone with only 235 posts in 30 days is on the list. That’s not terrible, but not great either. Engaging members is the key. Posts appear to be medium quality, again, nothing terrible, but nothing great either.
Section Mark: 15/40
Overall: 69%
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I think the theme you have works perfectly for the niche of the forum. The activity is great and I the members are friendly. The shoutbox is not necessarily needed, but that is due to preference really.
One thing I'd recommend, as I think all forums should have it, are profile tabs. The default MyBB profiles are exactly nice.
One thing I'd recommend, as I think all forums should have it, are profile tabs. The default MyBB profiles are exactly nice.
Forum looks good! 🙂 Some of the icons are of varying styles, I noticed (for the forums). Some are flat, some are glossy, and some are over-glossy. Usually it's best when they are all consistent. Anyway, it's a good forum. 🙂
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