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Post by tetrahydrocannabinol on Jul 14, 2015 12:41:57 GMT
One thing that will make this server look more professional is a website that isn't.. This. Users like to know that you've invested time (and money) on your server. A forum like this takes 2 minutes to create, and another ~15 or so to create all the boards. That being said, it doesn't look like you put any effort into it. Especially when the banner at the top isn't a single image - but the same image repeated. I understand there is restrictions when using freeforums, which is exactly why I suggest NOT USING IT. You can honestly get a free website from a site like x10Hosting or 000webhost, download SMF from SimpleMachines or one of the other hundreds of free forum softwares (MyBB to name another one, upload+install it, and then it's literally like what you have now.. WITHOUT THE RESTRICTIONS. Want a custom vote page? You'd be able to add it A webclient page? You'd be able to add it Highscores? I think you catch my drift. However, if that seems too challenging.. Can we at least get a different theme for the site? The regular text looks nearly the same as text that is hyperlinked (<That's a link right there..) - which is just bad styling. Also, no offence, but the forums look like they are from 2009.
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Post by william on Jul 14, 2015 14:51:13 GMT
Agreed, this forums is odd and unprofessional. Speaking of which, the forums isn't even working properly on my phone. And as for the theme, it just looks bad and like you said there's way better ones.
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Post by Jack on Jul 14, 2015 17:24:37 GMT
Forums upgrade would be nice
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Post by beemo on Jul 15, 2015 2:26:25 GMT
The only issue I have with creating a new forums is not knowing how (or if it's even possible) to transfer all of the members from this forum to the other one. We would lose a lot of forums activity by switching over I believe, since well let's be honest, people just don't like signing up on forums. I mean most people don't even go on the forums unless I tell them to look at the latest update or ask them to.
I'm not disagreeing, we do need a new forums and I'm currently looking into mybb as we speak. If forums activity is lost I suppose I'll have to accept that...
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Post by tetrahydrocannabinol on Jul 15, 2015 14:50:41 GMT
The only issue I have with creating a new forums is not knowing how (or if it's even possible) to transfer all of the members from this forum to the other one. We would lose a lot of forums activity by switching over I believe, since well let's be honest, people just don't like signing up on forums. I mean most people don't even go on the forums unless I tell them to look at the latest update or ask them to. I'm not disagreeing, we do need a new forums and I'm currently looking into mybb as we speak. If forums activity is lost I suppose I'll have to accept that... Don't forget that there's more than what I listed.. I personally use SMF because of how open it is - and their community is rather helpful when it comes to creating your own stuff for it. As for losing activity, I doubt it. 1) If the person really doesn't like to sign up on forums - I doubt they would have signed up on this one. 2) If they don't like to sign up on forums, they're not going to use it anyways, so there's no activity lost there. 3) You're probably losing more activity due to having a freeforums.net forum instead of just a .com compared to what you would "lose" from switching. 4) Most forum software allows exporting of database tables. And importing.. You may be able to import it to a software like SMF. 5) How hard is it to sign up on forums? I honestly just type in a username and password, then autocomplete the rest of the form (Except if there's a captcha). -Edit- 6) Take a look at the members list. Sort it by last online. Compare the last online dates to the date registered. You will notice the people that want to use the forums are active. The ones that don't aren't.
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Post by killakronic on Jul 21, 2015 19:36:04 GMT
I can try making one for you guys. I have a friend that do a lot of that stuff. You want me to give it a try?
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Post by tetrahydrocannabinol on Jul 21, 2015 20:00:17 GMT
I can try making one for you guys. I have a friend that do a lot of that stuff. You want me to give it a try? I actually know how to make a site (I have two currently active). But I haven't gone out of my way to even make one for this server as it's ultimately up to beemo. His reasoning to not making one was basically "we would lose the current players on the forums". I personally disagree on the matter, but I'm not going to push it further.
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Post by killakronic on Jul 21, 2015 21:15:20 GMT
I can try making one for you guys. I have a friend that do a lot of that stuff. You want me to give it a try? I actually know how to make a site (I have two currently active). But I haven't gone out of my way to even make one for this server as it's ultimately up to beemo. His reasoning to not making one was basically "we would lose the current players on the forums". I personally disagree on the matter, but I'm not going to push it further. I cant see that effecting the players? Link all the topics to the new server then when all the players sign up start slowly removing this piece of junk.
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Post by IsacRemia on Jan 24, 2022 23:00:49 GMT
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Post by IsacRemia on Jan 24, 2022 23:01:30 GMT
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Post by IsacRemia on Jan 24, 2022 23:02:29 GMT
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