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So, I decided to do this instead of just thinking about them each time I visit. Considering one of my 10 things, I'm sure all of these will be ignored, but I wanted to post them anyways.
1. A new theme every month. Why? Sites gain user trust and show consistency by recognition. Changing your layout all the time creates confusion, and makes users feel lost. Feel free to show me a statement by a good source that says otherwise.
2. Unstable server. So you have horrible server load huh? Try upgrading to a software that's been tested much better on big boards, like Xenforo or vB4. Then try using sprites instead of loading 20 different http requests each time a user visits the site. Or read one of the hundreds of tutorials for it: https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=267588
3. Stupid rules. Kids breaking rules causing you problems? Well you have to make rules to break them. I mean, can't link to forums in posts? Are you that worried that you'll lose traffic? Just add nofollow to them or something. I could go on and on here, but eh.
4. Lack of communication. Staff does so much stuff without talking with users about it. Try it sometime, it's easy and helps a lot!
5. Don't accept ideas. Considering the members outnumber the staff by quite a large amount, you'd think their ideas would be the most important. Are they? Apparently not.
6. Do something. Okay, so you're a forum and proud. You don't want to open up other forms of software for some reason, I'm guessing because you want to pwn the forum game. Unfortunately you're losing it too. Why? Because you're JUST A FORUM. It's not 2001 anymore, people aren't content with surfing through endless pages of discussion. Sometimes they want information the easy way, through a site.
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1. A new theme every month. Why? Sites gain user trust and show consistency by recognition. Changing your layout all the time creates confusion, and makes users feel lost. Feel free to show me a statement by a good source that says otherwise.
2. Unstable server. So you have horrible server load huh? Try upgrading to a software that's been tested much better on big boards, like Xenforo or vB4. Then try using sprites instead of loading 20 different http requests each time a user visits the site. Or read one of the hundreds of tutorials for it: https://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=267588
3. Stupid rules. Kids breaking rules causing you problems? Well you have to make rules to break them. I mean, can't link to forums in posts? Are you that worried that you'll lose traffic? Just add nofollow to them or something. I could go on and on here, but eh.
4. Lack of communication. Staff does so much stuff without talking with users about it. Try it sometime, it's easy and helps a lot!
5. Don't accept ideas. Considering the members outnumber the staff by quite a large amount, you'd think their ideas would be the most important. Are they? Apparently not.
6. Do something. Okay, so you're a forum and proud. You don't want to open up other forms of software for some reason, I'm guessing because you want to pwn the forum game. Unfortunately you're losing it too. Why? Because you're JUST A FORUM. It's not 2001 anymore, people aren't content with surfing through endless pages of discussion. Sometimes they want information the easy way, through a site.
inb4 flame