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oldassgamers

Hello guys, I've started a new forum for my community. But all visitors are only using my teamspeak 3 servers and not the homesite :/

Any suggestions how to solve that? Or should i add more features in the forum? Please help, lol.

<a href="http://www.oldassgamers.com" target="_blank">http://www.oldassgamers.com</a>

Sops

Well you probably do not need 18 sub forums if you only have a handful of people posting at the moment. Consolidate down to around four, add more as needed.

Crispy

<!--quoteo(post=1867824:date=Aug 9 2011, 04:26 PM:name=Sops)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sops @ Aug 9 2011, 04:26 PM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1867824"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->Well you probably do not need 18 sub forums if you only have a handful of people posting at the moment. Consolidate down to around four, add more as needed.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->Definitely agree. You can collapse all the games, discussions and such into a single off-topic forum and sub-divide as and when necessary.

Introductions could equally be a single thread in Off-Topic (probably better since you can scan through the whole thing and get to know everyone in one fell swoop).

Art/Graphic/Coding... your focus is games, so why dedicate a forum to this unless there is a significant call for it? Maybe just 'personal projects' if you really feel there's a whole bunch of people doing their own thing all of the time.

Hardware is relevant to being an old-ass gamer, but doesn't need to be split into 5 different forums.

Tech support I agree should be in its own section since it's a main service you provide and people need to be able to locate and create discussions on that quickly without it ending up in the wrong place.

My last point on this is that it's much worse to have 16 forums that rarely get posted in than 4 that are always getting regular posts. Even if the total number of threads created is the same one looks dead and the other looks like a community with something to say.

oldassgamers

now i rechanged , thx for suggestions :D

Sops

I now count 18 sub forums rearranged in a more annoying structure.

oldassgamers

<!--quoteo(post=1867973:date=Aug 10 2011, 01:59 AM:name=Sops)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Sops @ Aug 10 2011, 01:59 AM) <a href="index.php?act=findpost&pid=1867973"><{POST_SNAPBACK}></a></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec-->I now count 18 sub forums rearranged in a more annoying structure.<!--QuoteEnd--></div><!--QuoteEEnd-->

Why you think that? Now its more impact and not so huge anymore.

Thansal

You basically ignored all the suggestions.

It isn't a visual thing.

It's that you have 18 forums and a small community. Those forums are each going to garner a few posts (if any for that matter). That looks bad, it fractures your small community more then it needs to be, it makes the forum look dead, and it's honestly jsut more complication then you need.

lolfighter

It's like 500 people living in a city that is big enough for 50000. Sure everyone will have plenty of space, but the entire place will just seem lonely and dead, and everyone will move away.

oldassgamers

Oki thx , is there something else you guys got in mind?

Sops

Fix your spelling mistakes.