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OzCommunity
http://www.ozcommunity.com
It is a Australian general discussion forum

OzCom has been around for nearly 2 years.
We started off fast in the early days and got a core set of about 200 members, but slowly the activity has gone down.
I then started to work on SEO and started get more members via search engines. but they where not active, so post activity didnt grow.

The site is meant to be focused on general australian topics, i have tried to change the topics/cats to focus on this. But am struggling to think of new topics that isnt on major australian forums already.

I am considering scrapping the idea of ad's on the site all together, never made much more than $5. i do this as a hobby not for revenue.

I have a portal set-up as the main page, but i am not sure if this is the best move? should i just have the normal forum listing as the main page? i feel the portal is possibly preventing members from seeing the categories and making a post/new thread?

Would like a review of the template and any improvements, or basically any general comments about the site that i can use to improve it.

Thanks in advance for the reviews, it is much appreciated.