Batchman — Thu, 21 Oct 2004 16:32:23 +0000

I have a few comments from a forum point of view ...

1) For whatever reason, the forum takes a long time to load up. I'm on high speed, but it takes almost a minute to load up the forum. The horizontal scroll vanishes once the whole forum actually loads up, but between the time it takes to load, and seeing that horizontal scroll, a lot of people may decide to page away, rather than bother staying around and posting.

2) Too many boards. I understand the organization you are trying to do, but when I load up the forum, I find myself looking at a whole bunch of boards, all showing 0 posts, which doesn't encourage me to delve into things. (I have the same problem on one of my message forums ... if I hadn't already written off that particular forum, and didn't need all my attention elsewhere for a while, I'd start paring the boards down again ... it would help in attracting more people.)

Compress a bit, so not as much shows on the main screen, and people see more of a hint of activity.

Take all opinions with a grain of salt, but these are the thoughts that come to mind as I peek around the site. Your dedicated people are posting, but new visitors are probably overwealmed.

fawh — Tue, 19 Oct 2004 19:10:03 +0000

I'm getting a horizontal scroll bar also. You could try making the font smaller in the Server Schedule table.

cinfinity — Sat, 09 Oct 2004 22:55:50 +0000

On 1024x768 i get a horizontal scroll bar. Im using IE 6.0. Also on the left table there is a white border that I don't like. I think the background might be too distracting. Then I am bit puzzeled as to why the down time of the servers is displayed as the apparent main item on the site. One thing about the forums, I noticed that you had a LOT of different discussion areas. For some of them you have to scroll quite far down. Maybe some could be grouped under a single name. I realize this would then require some forums 3 clicks to get to. Maybe bit more prominently display the actualy link to the forums I had to hunt for it for a bit. I just assumed it would be some where very visible since your site is all about the forums right? I guess if things didnt look so busy on the site the link to the forums would have been easy to spot as well.

not getting traffic

arwld — Fri, 08 Oct 2004 05:43:45 +0000

We'll theres no right answer to that question.
Your home page is super busy.
Hard to decide where to start reading.
You have a link popularity of 33
3 of those are on google
Also your domain has no relation to the name of your site.
I'd start there.

Busy — Fri, 07 May 2004 22:27:10 +0000

Welcome to TWF, could you review a few sites as per the posting agreement please, Thanks.