I know the feeling. I once tried to add a gold-colored usertitle with italics on another forum (Because I have elevated permissions etc) and I didn't nearly have enough room. I still had to end the italics before I ran out of room.
So I just asked the admin to add it for me. xD
I think the only point of other forums is to design skins on for PC tbh. Very little are as successful as PC, and you're better off just making this forum better imo. :x
New Pokemon forums have nothing to offer that the bigger and better forums don't already offer anyway. Sure, you may find a deeper sense of community in the smaller forums, but that's really the only benefit.
That's probably it. When I come to a smaller forum, but still active enough, I tend to find myself finding nice things about people there. Not to mention how the staff of smaller forums tend to act differently, usually for the better. Things get more approachable when you don't have a lot to worry about.
Yeah but the success rate isn't very high. :x So just kinda, idk. Well, if it's just for a group of friends, that's fine, but a full-scale thing probably won't end up working out. XD;
Actually, PC started out as a compilation forum. :P It was the "home forum" of multiple websites together, so it had a larger visitor base to draw from in the first place and was doing something different from everyone else because of it. (This was way back when it was unheard of to have a forum unattached to a website.)On the other hand, though, remember where PC started, even though I was not around then.
At one time, PHO was rather established and prominent. Now it's kinda in dismay. We're currently trying to fix the leaks and whatnot though. It's surprising how easy it is for a forum to practically drop dead.
I was part of a small Pokemon forum before. It lasted about a year before it crashed and burned because the head admin became drunk on power. He modded me without me even wanting the position, then talked trash about me because I wasn't "contributing to the site." I cut ties completely with him and his forum soon after.