Robust
Well-known member
Hey,
Just looking for feedback on my forum. What do you think so far? I've focused partly and mainly on optimisation without having to pay, so server side etc and I've only gotten up to basic optimisations and our site is quite fast, 400ms load time when I last checked it on Pingdom. My main focus now is user experience, so I'd like some feedback. This isn't an advertisement thread though, but I'll leave our forum body for forums we advertise on just to show you some of what we had planned back when we had MyBB.
Let me know please.
Just looking for feedback on my forum. What do you think so far? I've focused partly and mainly on optimisation without having to pay, so server side etc and I've only gotten up to basic optimisations and our site is quite fast, 400ms load time when I last checked it on Pingdom. My main focus now is user experience, so I'd like some feedback. This isn't an advertisement thread though, but I'll leave our forum body for forums we advertise on just to show you some of what we had planned back when we had MyBB.
Let me know please.
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[align=center]Gaming Forums -==- https://www.gamingforums.net[/align]
Latest Updates:
27 August 2014 - We have moved over to XenForo. We also now use FULL STRICT SSL. That means that you pass on data over to CloudFlare in a secure connection, and CloudFlare passes it to us in a secure connection. CloudFlare will only accept a valid SSL certificate. We use organisation level SSL certificates for this.
Due to moving to XenForo we lose functionality like awards, but honestly that's not a worry! I'm quite glad actually. I'm sick of forums trying to pull off a HF, usergroups, awards, all that stuff, make a few bucks and close down. Considering that, I'm glad we have what a forum board should be, not some bloated piece of software covered with layers of useless features. We are a forum, a place for gamers to interact, and we want members in general, whether gamers or not, to have fun communicating. They shouldn't aim to have the most decked out profile. In my opinion that's not right, and I don't see other big forums doing that.
30/08/2014 - A successful move! We have moved over to a new host, with more power and resources to make sure the site runs smoothly. With better connectivity too, this site is much faster off the bat, and with our own optimisations we have insanely fast pagespeeds.
We have some general discussion forums for just relaxing and having fun.
About Us
Gaming Forums is a forum made by gamers, for gamers. Gaming Forums is here for people to have a chill time, to relax, to make new friends, to game with others and discuss on a variety of other topics. After you come home from a tiring day of work or school you'll want something to relax, lots of people talk to friends, go out, play on their console or PC, and our mission is to bring all of these things together. A community where you can meet gamers, interact with gamers and have a fun time. And hey, not interested in gaming? We have other forums too for a bit of chit chat, and we won't hesitate to make more if that's what people want to do.
Mission Statement
Our objective isn't to bring any other forum down, so don't make that out of my statement, but it's a fact that lots of boards start and end very quickly. Sometimes the members make excellent contributions, and one morning you're just trying to find something but you're greeted by a nice "Cannot connect to remote server" message by your browser, and that sucks because either that data was something you needed, or someone you wanted to talk to or whatever the reason is. And that sucks for me too, it happens so many times. We are a board here to stay. We've invested almost two thousand USD into this forum already, and won't hesitate to invest more. We aren't here for profit, if we were we'd probably just buy some normal domain, go ahead and use some free theme and launch, and that setup doesn't say anything about the community, nor how much fun you'll have there, that simply states that the forum may not have the backing to stay around. We have the money to make sure this forum isn't going anywhere, we want to make sure the site is fast, and hence we are optimised at blazing fast speeds and working hard to make sure we continue getting those quick speeds. We want to have a warm community, a community that can have a fun time, because at the end of the day this is all a way to seek entertainment. All the statistics of mine you see, post count and the lot, that's all because I was entertained by content and felt like participating in it, having a nice discussion and so on. We invest more money into R1Soft and a backup server than anything else to make sure your data is always there, and always there for a backup if there are ever any issues, we won't be going down any time soon. Surely we can't expect to make all our investments back soon enough (financially anyway). I've had a few concerns about people getting engaged into the board and the owner closing it down, that won't happen, my personal seal is on that.
None of our staff team will be standing on the other side of the path acting like they're any bigger than anyone else, including me. We want to be in the action and have fun ourselves, we chose gaming as our topic for that reason
Please feel free to interact with us, have fun talking to us, and if need be act the same with us as you would anyone else, because quite frankly everyone can express their opinion to anyone else, as long as it's displayed in a mature way, no-threatening and abides by forum rules, and on that topic, we don't want to restrict anyone with a large chunky wall of text, we just want to make sure everyone has a safe and fun time, and acknowledge that we have a variety of different age groups and personalities, we are tweaked to suit everyone.
We've invested weeks into this, I've had this domain for two months or so now, and we've been wanting to make this for about three or so. That's quite a long time. We don't want to bust out with something half completed. We're here with the full experience we can provide.
What do we want?
What's the catch eh? Why are you telling us this? Bragging or something? Nope, I just want to assure you that we are going to stay, and stay in a way that isn't serious. Our boards remain professional, all official, permanent content is written to the best of our ability, professionally and the lot, but that doesn't mean that that's what we want from a forum. We want a chill time, we are loose people ourselves. I'm not here looking for mature people, perfect posts, picture perfect robots, we have enough bot spam for that (two spam threads every minute for the past month of board installation, eventually I got fed up and coded myself some ways to protect against it
, nothing has gotten through since). We just want the following
What can we offer you?
Why Us
A thing I get told a lot is "gaming is a terrible niche", "saturated market". I really hate it when people call my idea a niche or a market. I'm not here to profit a great deal, and I don't consider that. I've made a couple of gaming suggestion threads here, some of which have been implemented and others died in the wave of suggestions, I really love gaming, I love discussing gaming just as much and honestly I think there are improvements that can be made as to how it sums up, and that's what I'd like to do here, an easy way to discuss games, organised and the lot but the main priority is simply fun.
We've been in planning for months, had the domain for two months. We've waited until we are sure the backend is secure enough, until we have a safe environment and are able to offer you our very best. We've started a short while ago and already got a growing community.
Our promise. We will not sell this forum. We will not give up. We will not sell our board to be merged. We will not employ new leadership teams, staff or so on for money. We will never be crazy money oriented. You will not find your efforts wasted.
[align=center]Gaming Forums -==- http://gamingforums.net[/align]
[/align][align=center]Gaming Forums -==- https://www.gamingforums.net[/align]
Latest Updates:
27 August 2014 - We have moved over to XenForo. We also now use FULL STRICT SSL. That means that you pass on data over to CloudFlare in a secure connection, and CloudFlare passes it to us in a secure connection. CloudFlare will only accept a valid SSL certificate. We use organisation level SSL certificates for this.
Due to moving to XenForo we lose functionality like awards, but honestly that's not a worry! I'm quite glad actually. I'm sick of forums trying to pull off a HF, usergroups, awards, all that stuff, make a few bucks and close down. Considering that, I'm glad we have what a forum board should be, not some bloated piece of software covered with layers of useless features. We are a forum, a place for gamers to interact, and we want members in general, whether gamers or not, to have fun communicating. They shouldn't aim to have the most decked out profile. In my opinion that's not right, and I don't see other big forums doing that.
30/08/2014 - A successful move! We have moved over to a new host, with more power and resources to make sure the site runs smoothly. With better connectivity too, this site is much faster off the bat, and with our own optimisations we have insanely fast pagespeeds.
We have some general discussion forums for just relaxing and having fun.
About Us
Gaming Forums is a forum made by gamers, for gamers. Gaming Forums is here for people to have a chill time, to relax, to make new friends, to game with others and discuss on a variety of other topics. After you come home from a tiring day of work or school you'll want something to relax, lots of people talk to friends, go out, play on their console or PC, and our mission is to bring all of these things together. A community where you can meet gamers, interact with gamers and have a fun time. And hey, not interested in gaming? We have other forums too for a bit of chit chat, and we won't hesitate to make more if that's what people want to do.
Mission Statement
Our objective isn't to bring any other forum down, so don't make that out of my statement, but it's a fact that lots of boards start and end very quickly. Sometimes the members make excellent contributions, and one morning you're just trying to find something but you're greeted by a nice "Cannot connect to remote server" message by your browser, and that sucks because either that data was something you needed, or someone you wanted to talk to or whatever the reason is. And that sucks for me too, it happens so many times. We are a board here to stay. We've invested almost two thousand USD into this forum already, and won't hesitate to invest more. We aren't here for profit, if we were we'd probably just buy some normal domain, go ahead and use some free theme and launch, and that setup doesn't say anything about the community, nor how much fun you'll have there, that simply states that the forum may not have the backing to stay around. We have the money to make sure this forum isn't going anywhere, we want to make sure the site is fast, and hence we are optimised at blazing fast speeds and working hard to make sure we continue getting those quick speeds. We want to have a warm community, a community that can have a fun time, because at the end of the day this is all a way to seek entertainment. All the statistics of mine you see, post count and the lot, that's all because I was entertained by content and felt like participating in it, having a nice discussion and so on. We invest more money into R1Soft and a backup server than anything else to make sure your data is always there, and always there for a backup if there are ever any issues, we won't be going down any time soon. Surely we can't expect to make all our investments back soon enough (financially anyway). I've had a few concerns about people getting engaged into the board and the owner closing it down, that won't happen, my personal seal is on that.
None of our staff team will be standing on the other side of the path acting like they're any bigger than anyone else, including me. We want to be in the action and have fun ourselves, we chose gaming as our topic for that reason
Please feel free to interact with us, have fun talking to us, and if need be act the same with us as you would anyone else, because quite frankly everyone can express their opinion to anyone else, as long as it's displayed in a mature way, no-threatening and abides by forum rules, and on that topic, we don't want to restrict anyone with a large chunky wall of text, we just want to make sure everyone has a safe and fun time, and acknowledge that we have a variety of different age groups and personalities, we are tweaked to suit everyone.We've invested weeks into this, I've had this domain for two months or so now, and we've been wanting to make this for about three or so. That's quite a long time. We don't want to bust out with something half completed. We're here with the full experience we can provide.
What do we want?
What's the catch eh? Why are you telling us this? Bragging or something? Nope, I just want to assure you that we are going to stay, and stay in a way that isn't serious. Our boards remain professional, all official, permanent content is written to the best of our ability, professionally and the lot, but that doesn't mean that that's what we want from a forum. We want a chill time, we are loose people ourselves. I'm not here looking for mature people, perfect posts, picture perfect robots, we have enough bot spam for that (two spam threads every minute for the past month of board installation, eventually I got fed up and coded myself some ways to protect against it
, nothing has gotten through since). We just want the following- A nice community
- Active discussion on a variety of topics
- A chill community, be yourself, relax, take some time to have a blast, go wild
- Feedback, we'd love to know where we can improve and what you think about us
What can we offer you?
- Friendly, fun atmosphere
- Fun, involved staff team
- A beautiful theme
- Security and reliability
- Every single one of our awards are achievable awards
- Custom modules i.e Marketplace system
- A growing community
Why Us
A thing I get told a lot is "gaming is a terrible niche", "saturated market". I really hate it when people call my idea a niche or a market. I'm not here to profit a great deal, and I don't consider that. I've made a couple of gaming suggestion threads here, some of which have been implemented and others died in the wave of suggestions, I really love gaming, I love discussing gaming just as much and honestly I think there are improvements that can be made as to how it sums up, and that's what I'd like to do here, an easy way to discuss games, organised and the lot but the main priority is simply fun.
We've been in planning for months, had the domain for two months. We've waited until we are sure the backend is secure enough, until we have a safe environment and are able to offer you our very best. We've started a short while ago and already got a growing community.
Our promise. We will not sell this forum. We will not give up. We will not sell our board to be merged. We will not employ new leadership teams, staff or so on for money. We will never be crazy money oriented. You will not find your efforts wasted.
[align=center]Gaming Forums -==- http://gamingforums.net[/align]
