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Post by brentsohlden555 on Oct 19, 2022 8:45:24 GMT -8
This is an AWESOME Forum!!!! Thank you Anna and Les for doing God's work!
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Post by avoice7 on Oct 22, 2022 13:45:17 GMT -8
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Post by Former Member on Oct 23, 2022 22:17:46 GMT -8
I like the forum
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 20, 2022 19:00:20 GMT -8
Bump!
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 20, 2022 19:02:26 GMT -8
Thank you so much!
All glory goes to God.
I just try to point people in His direction, kinda like a crossing guard.
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 20, 2022 19:04:01 GMT -8
Thank you! We try. It's always a work in progress. I'm better at being the class clown at the back of the class than and admin but I guess we'll see where this goes. LOL
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 20, 2022 19:09:10 GMT -8
Good morning. These are my overall first impressions. Anything that comes off as criticism is not intended to hurt your feelings. I just want your forum to be successful. My eyes were drawn to the forum before the banner, meaning your banner did not stand out to me. I made an intentional point to look at it and wasn't too fond of the faded lettering. While I could read it, it also wasn't very clear to read. Too often people make too many boards and it ends up confusing the forum's members. Having only one board per category is also a tad disorganized. What made you create as many sub-boards as you did? Ideally, you should stay at around 25 total boards or less, including sub-boards. Things that you created entire sub-boards for may do better as one thread. Further, a lot of your sub-boards are very similar. You have one named "God" and one named "God's Love." How would they differ? A member should be able to look at your forum and know exactly where to post any topic that pops into their head. I'm not entirely fond of the capital lettering you used for your board names. It's almost like the boards are yelling at me. Your colors match very well though. That's a major plus. I also like your custom images. Your visitor tracker is cool, but if it counts bots, it may not be very useful information. I wish you the best of luck and a blessed day. Thank you so much for this. I apologize for taking so long to see this. I don't get on the support boards unless I'm stumped on something or want to bump the forum. I guess I should be bumping the forum more often. I will definitely give all of your suggestions some thought. It is getting time to do some cleaning up and organizing.
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 20, 2022 19:30:10 GMT -8
Can you give me a link of a forum that you feel is better organized so I can maybe get some ideas?
I know the forum does need a lot work in that area for sure.
I'm also scared, I'll accidentally delete a whole section when restructuring the boards. It needs it badly though.
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Post by bigballofyarn on Nov 21, 2022 6:09:52 GMT -8
You can always appoint a staff member to help with some structuring. It's really hard to delete things by accident. You have to click so many things and even type out the word "delete."
ProBoards Support is pretty organized. It looks like you created over 100 boards. I didn't count how many you kept on your forum though. You have a LOT of sub-boards which means a user has to do a lot of extra clicking to find what they want. I would combine boards that are of very similar topics. Your forum has been around for a few years and some of the sub-boards don't even have a handful of posts.
Maybe it would help if you explain to me your thought process. You have a LOT of sub-boards under "Bible Studies, Sermons, & Biblical Information." As a guest or member, it's going to take me a long time to read through all of them to try to figure out where to make my topic. It's confusing. What made you want to create all those sub-boards rather than just keep the parent board?
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 22, 2022 14:49:45 GMT -8
You can always appoint a staff member to help with some structuring. It's really hard to delete things by accident. You have to click so many things and even type out the word "delete." ProBoards Support is pretty organized. It looks like you created over 100 boards. I didn't count how many you kept on your forum though. You have a LOT of sub-boards which means a user has to do a lot of extra clicking to find what they want. I would combine boards that are of very similar topics. Your forum has been around for a few years and some of the sub-boards don't even have a handful of posts. Maybe it would help if you explain to me your thought process. You have a LOT of sub-boards under "Bible Studies, Sermons, & Biblical Information." As a guest or member, it's going to take me a long time to read through all of them to try to figure out where to make my topic. It's confusing. What made you want to create all those sub-boards rather than just keep the parent board? Wow. I thought I did a good job of going back and restructuring the boards. Short version of a long story- I had 2 boards w/ the same name and even though I had to go through the process and even typing in "delete", I deleted the wrong one because I'm a bonehead sometimes. I started looking at probards as inspiration to set up the hierarchy. I thought I was doing it right, but there is and extra (create thread) area in them. I dont think I correctly understand the difference between the boards and sub-boards and how they work. I have been a member of many forums. LOL I'm just not getting it for some reason. Like many things though, it's click eventually and I'll wonder why I couldnt understand. I'm going to do some research on creating forum structures. I should have started w/ that in the 1st place. Thanks for critiquing it. It's giving me inspiration to fix it. I know the structure is lacking. It has the same structure it had when created (well until I messed w/ it yesterday). again, thanks
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 22, 2022 14:53:09 GMT -8
I am going to try to figure this out on my own by reading up on how to properly structure a forum and if I get stumped, I'll ask a staff member to help me restructure it.
Thanks for the advice.
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Post by bigballofyarn on Nov 22, 2022 15:30:26 GMT -8
avoice7 , You're doing an awesome job actually. I'm not being critical to be mean. I'm just trying to give you an honest, personal opinion. If you disagree with me, you don't have to make any changes at all. I just feel like it's better to be honest than to offer constant praise. I wouldn't want someone to tell me they loved my forum if they didn't. It wouldn't be helpful. I'm sorry that you deleted the wrong board. We all make mistakes. You know to be more careful going forward. Look through the boards you want to keep and ask yourself if there will be a good amount of discussions in each board. The only threads in your COVID-19 board are from two years ago. Do you think you need an entire board for COVID-19 or do you think people can discuss COVID-19 within a few threads in another board? I'm just asking to see how you think and feel about these things. You don't have to make changes you don't want to make.
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 22, 2022 20:59:50 GMT -8
avoice7 , You're doing an awesome job actually. I'm not being critical to be mean. I'm just trying to give you an honest, personal opinion. If you disagree with me, you don't have to make any changes at all. I just feel like it's better to be honest than to offer constant praise. I wouldn't want someone to tell me they loved my forum if they didn't. It wouldn't be helpful. I'm sorry that you deleted the wrong board. We all make mistakes. You know to be more careful going forward. Look through the boards you want to keep and ask yourself if there will be a good amount of discussions in each board. The only threads in your COVID-19 board are from two years ago. Do you think you need an entire board for COVID-19 or do you think people can discuss COVID-19 within a few threads in another board? I'm just asking to see how you think and feel about these things. You don't have to make changes you don't want to make. You keep giving me good advice. I appreciate it. There are lots of things on the forum from years ago that can be changed. That's what I'm working on now. I'm making this a priority.
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Post by bigballofyarn on Nov 23, 2022 3:12:52 GMT -8
I'll keep posing questions at you then. You have a "Welcome to the Forum" sub-board inside of a "Welcome to the Forum" parent board. How do they differ from each other? "Who is Welcome on This Forum" seems like something that should be an announcement (one thread) and not its own board. Are people going to make dozens of topics regarding why they are welcome in addition to the other few welcome boards you have?
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Post by avoice7 on Nov 23, 2022 22:54:51 GMT -8
I'll keep posing questions at you then. You have a "Welcome to the Forum" sub-board inside of a "Welcome to the Forum" parent board. How do they differ from each other? "Who is Welcome on This Forum" seems like something that should be an announcement (one thread) and not its own board. Are people going to make dozens of topics regarding why they are welcome in addition to the other few welcome boards you have? One thing I was doing was making boards that should had been threads instead. I'm working on that.
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