Suggestions for Forum?

[madsniper]

Alright, so I admit, my last forum was a disaster. Thank goodness it got hacked!
What I want to know now is, how do you guys think I should organize this one? What categories should I include? Are there any color schemes you'd like to see? What am I missing??

Y'see, DoomNstuff may be over two years old, but that hasn't changed my noob status.

*sigh*

[martiansushi]

actually, i like this color scheme a lot better than the other one. goes with the rest of the site much better .

and i'm afraid the keys to active forums are twofold
1. regular updates (wince)
2. a few crazy people who keep things going

unfortunately, the sushi is more of a lurker... so you need some other crazy people

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martian the sushi

[madsniper]

It's all up to the crazy people then, cuz I am anything but regular with my updates.

~snipes*

*is working to change that! Really!

[madsniper]

Should I recreate that board for time wasters? Like the riddles n such? I'm reluctant to create to many threads while there's still no one on this thing.

[martiansushi]

nah, i think it's clear that there's space for random stuff like that... and it just doesn't work if there aren't participants, unfortunately.

one neat thing they have on the Talismen forum is a space for 'member projects'. people post everything from art to links to their own webcomics to stories that they work on in the thread. It's pretty neat (i mean, there's some stuff that's not great, and some stuff that's really good, but everyone gets feedback, and it's a really friendly forum, so it works well)

what we really need is for those tagboard folks to move over here

[madsniper]

Hehe, really. Ok, I just made a place for people to pimp their work out. They had something for that on the Avatar forum too. It was neat.

[Linx]

The forum really looks nice. I hope it works out for you this time.

[madsniper]

Thanks! I hope so too. You were right, ProBoards make fanastic forums. ;D I was even looking at some I would have had to pay for, but they weren't any more customizable than this one. I mean, they let me put a banner at the top!!!

[martiansushi]

another thing I remembered: a section for introductions, where everyone starts their own thread with a 'hello to the forum, this is who i am' and other people respond with greetings. I dunno how well that'll work here, but they have that on the Talismen forum too

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martian sushi

[madsniper]

Oh, good idea! I'll make a board for that.

[dragonlord7012]

Perhaps a section w/ like Videogames, TV, pop culture, movies , etc. just a thought

[madsniper]

Well, that's the general section. Feel free to create threads on all that stuff, Dragonlord7012!

[CrimsonKissaki]

i never did much with my forums on my website. im actually about to take them down and back up the important stuff, cus im getting too many spam posts in it. is that what happened to your last one? i put up a testing area for scripts and sigs and such, a random area for general whining, forums for my various stories and rants, and a few other odd ones that only pertained to my situation. every site is different, you have to let them evolve naturally. dont worry about making all the forums now, just plug em in when you need em.

[madsniper]

Cool, cool, sounds good. I do like the idea of an html/siggy test thread though, that's smart.
I did get a lot of spam on my last forum, but I took it down becase somebody finally hacked it, actually. But I had already been considering taking it down because it was organized horribly. Threads were everywhere. I've since learned the necsessity of giving threads obvious titles. Also, it didn't look like it belonged with my site. There was no way to redesign it decently. So this one is way better all around. ;D

[CrimsonKissaki]

hows about an official anime thread? i know thats a slightly incendiary topic but hey? why not.