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Old 09-17-2008, 08:01 PM
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First of all, the style is nice, but the forum icons do not match the style in the least. Do not just modify the default, and if you have them, just use the icons that came with the style you applied to your forum, which are likely a hundred times better.

Way too many empty forums. Fill them with content, but also try merging them into a smaller list like so:

Facebook General

Forum News
Facebook News
Introductions

Facebook Talk

Gemeral Facebook Chat
Facebook Applications
Groups
Facebook Events

General

The Lounge

Help and Support

Technical Support and Feedback

That's it. Don't add irrelevant forums at this point in time, just keep it very simple. Also, see my redone forum ordering, you should keep the topical forums about Facebook near the top of the page where they're most visible, since those are the reason for your forum. Move feedback to the bottom of the forum page as well.

Change default icons for users, stats, etc. They don't quite fit the style you're using.

Get some new smilies rather the default ones. Maybe ask the Facebook staff for some smilies used there in groups or forums?

Again, keep the default images out, and use your Facebook style images for the buttons and stuff. Blue around the default icons does not a good image make.

Remove staff applications. It's not quite a good idea to go for staff as soon as the forum is open, wait until there's more activity.

In all though, your forum style is nice, you have some good choices in forum structure for the topical forums and it suits the theme. Need to boost that post count a lot though.
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