We know you have an opinion on how things should be run around here. These are suggestions for the forums, and the website.This forum is not a place to ask for suggestions to your own coding (or otherwise) problems.
I dont know if you already know this but arround 63% of visitors sign up to forums beacuse of the visual image, so what I think should happen is use more PHPBB templates or some custom theemes that users can change. On my old forum I trialed this idea and found that with the default design I had 3 signups per week and with the custom theeme wich was prety eyecathing i had 12 .
So thats my idea, you dont have to take it into account and im one of the 37% that sign up to forums beause I find them usefull! (Thats why i signed up to this!).
iFlex wrote:So thats my idea, you dont have to take it into account and im one of the 37% that sign up to forums beause I find them usefull! (Thats why i signed up to this!).
Those are users we care about. In my opinion users attracted by catchy design alone are unlikely to post anything useful.
Well, actually I do not sign up in forum which design are annoying my eyes, but exactly because of this, the default phpbb, ipb, smf and vbulletin templates are good choice for a forum like phpdn - everybody is used to with them.