torrentforge.com - Bittorrent Discussion

[Borgs8472]

Greetings once again vb.org people!

Since my forum has achieved a fairly innovative AND stable look now, I thought I would present it for some feedback.



First up, the site stuff. I used to administer a much larger message board, but we had a falling out and so I started my forum based on one of my favourite topics, bittorrent.

This started the first forum and later spawned the guides forum when I had written enough guides. I hope to continue to add to that and fill my site with more unique content.

The two other main forums are Interesting for general links and news and Geek Stuff for geekier threads.

I have been doing a lot of promotion (well more than I've ever done) to get the site hits, and with much success. However there's a real lack of posting or community so far I hope to capitalise on major bittorrent forums where people ask questions about trying to optimise their downloads and not getting answers, joining my site. I expect I should try and define my goals a little better still. I am thinking of putting a forum description in the header still.

There are two hidden forums for people I know in real life.

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On to the technical stuff.

The skin was brought from extremepixels, a good investment I felt. I modified the CSS quite a bit, however the contrast of colour is still a little higher than I'd like. But it's sexy none the less.

The banner was made by shellspeare over at best-board.com

I heavily modified the header/navbar placing the login box in the header and greatly shrinking the navbar, and effect I think is very efficient and looks good too.

For guests, I have a fading ticker I found on dynamic drive encouraging guests to register. It's values still need a little tweaking.

I have a sidebar (separate template, called and cached in the footer) which has another 'please register' message. (currently it's saying unregistered posters should post due to the <1 post options, this needs tweaking still). Or it has a 'own posts' block based on my navbar hack if you're logged in. (see sig)

I have a modified random quote block as featured on vb.org, which fits nice random quotes on every page - a good placement I feel. I have some links, which the recipricols of which have got me a lot of hits! (if only I had ads, oh well...)

I have flashchat installed, as well as PaulM's 'who's in flashchat'. Registered users of a private usergroup see who has visited in the last 24 hours, however guests and normal users do not. I have an arcade with a stupid amount of games.

So... what do people have to say?