Forum Layout design overview

In Administator disscussion I pointed out some design flaws of the forum.


An example of the usual forum...take a brief moment to notice the layout of teams, whos online, and names of players today example...

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So far no problem because its a small group of teams and people....Now Imagine what it would be like if there were thousands of users online!

Members connected doring the last 24 hours could in theory be a long ranting list of names.....

user birthdays also......

Legend of Teams.....What would this forum look like with so many teams.
my guess is that in its current format, the list would look rather too long and would need its own page section.

Team active sections are not currentlly active ...I really wonder why we have these team sections set up if the teams that want to host them rarely ever use them anymore.....they have gone on to face book or text, cell phone to communicate.....no teams other than my own are posting any serious anouncements on team section.
- Maybe team sections should all be deleted since they seem to only be stupid flag poles of derilict ships!

I see the team sections as a place run by disfunctional bums and homeless shelter....the teams are really lazy ass bums!... why should we cater to providing a section they will never seriouly use?!

from an engineering stand point, the forum does need a bit of work, its only too bad that the subject of airsoft is not causing enough traffic to revieal the inherent design flaws... its like a highway that was built to cater for only 2 lanes of traffic!... it needed more lanes!

there is a number of counted users listed... this number is useless to display if its always showing such a low and degrading number of users and guests... might as well start listing n00bs..LOL! JK!

Chat box is inactive, but what if it was packed!....How many people could it possiblly handle?

The forum as bad a design as it is will ultimatelly need the attendance and feed back of inspired people to jump start a more active forum.....surely there are far more people airsofting who are willing to drop in and partake in steering the forum to a whole other level.

now in our Local only settings, just about everyone here is burned out, maybe even tired of hearing stuff from creative olde SandDragon!....The burnouts are even logging out possiblly forever!...new teams and people should be filling in their place like some sort of active airport, where people come and go.....sure, it will always draw in n00bs!

There will also be new people always dropping in asking the same old questions too!.....Don't be rude and burn out too, and we certainlly don't want any lazy bums and slacker teams setting up a disfunctional shop!

Prove you exist by taking action!

Last in the forum disscussion, there may be a distinct possibility that the forum may just be rolled up and put away.....now I got something like 3000 postings and pages worth of scenario game disscussion and is that really worth losing?

Between yesterday and today these are the members we had and no one posted. My advise is why visit and waste your time by visiting this forum if your not going to post or participate or maybe some are like a few women I know who love gossip? sorry buts there's non of that here either try again later now go away you bother me kid.

NOBODY wrote:

Between yesterday and today these are the members we had and no one posted. My advise is why visit and waste your time by visiting this forum if your not going to post or participate or maybe some are like a few women I know who love gossip? sorry buts there's non of that here either try again later now go away you bother me kid.

woo im number three!!!

NOBODY wrote:

Between yesterday and today these are the members we had and no one posted. My advise is why visit and waste your time by visiting this forum if your not going to post or participate or maybe some are like a few women I know who love gossip? sorry buts there's non of that here either try again later now go away you bother me kid.

There's no point in being forced to post, that'll just turn up shitty topics. You should be glad people are visiting still.

NOBODY wrote:

Hey!!!!!

YOU SUNK MY BATTLE SHIP!

LOL!

SandDragon wrote:

NOBODY wrote:

Hey!!!!!

YOU SUNK MY BATTLE SHIP!

LOL!

everytime i play i pull a "wilfred"

NOBODY wrote:

You know this forum layout gives me a bit of a hard time posting threads with pictures....I do it Blog style!

The problem is at times annoying having to load pictures in between lines of texts and certain automatic features that are not really windows, actually anoyingly get in the way of my view!

Some times during editing the whole body of my thread actually automatically compresses!
These issues should be fixed!

This must be some kind of bot feature, but in all, this adds to the resistance in ease of posting elaborate topics.

I am not familar with uploading massive photos onto the upload account...but I feel it better if it was in blog style like the old fashioned magazines we often read.

SandDragon wrote:

NOBODY wrote:

You know this forum layout gives me a bit of a hard time posting threads with pictures....I do it Blog style!

The problem is at times annoying having to load pictures in between lines of texts and certain automatic features that are not really windows, actually anoyingly get in the way of my view!

Some times during editing the whole body of my thread actually automatically compresses!
These issues should be fixed!

This must be some kind of bot feature, but in all, this adds to the resistance in ease of posting elaborate topics.

I am not familar with uploading massive photos onto the upload account...but I feel it better if it was in blog style like the old fashioned magazines we often read.

AHH a blog! id break 5000 posts easy!