Only Hope We Got (A Host Roleplay)

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For several months, myself and a few other staff have been working on an AU site based off of The Host by Stephanie Meyer. Despite heavy advertising, it just doesn't seem to be taking off super well - and I want some help as to why!

The other staff member and I decided to add cannon sections to this site (thus adding the caves and characters from the actual book to the site) in order to try and drive more members. So, when you're looking at this site and sections seem unfinished or incomplete, please keep in mind that things are still changing as we add in cannon sections.

Really, any feedback you can give is much appreciated!

The details
Site: hopewegot.proboards.com/
Premise: Site based off The Host by Stephanie Meyer focusing on the cave rebels from the book and adding in hill rebels and soul towns
Advertisement Board: Here. I am giving you this because I would also LOVE some feedback on the effectiveness of my advertisement.

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Made some changes to it now - new skin and color scheme!

[Rennat]

Key:
1 - Needs Much Improvement
2 - Needs Improvement
3 - Acceptable, Nothing Great
4 - Solid and Appealing
5 - Awesome, I admire it personally

First Impression: 4

Theme (colors and graphics): 3
Likes: I love the color scheme. The use of brown and blue, with blue over brown in the banner and brown over blue in thread sections is very interesting. Gives the whole board the sensation of the banner, with ground below you and a sky above and freedom all around (despite the nature of the plot)
Dislikes: There's white text on that light gray background ALL OVER THE PLACE, which is completely unreadable. I can only imagine the theme was recently implemented. The white over light gray in the banner is fine, but everywhere else, no. From the text in statistics and affiliates, which is difficult to read, to the buttons below the cbox, which is impossible to read, the white text has been proven a bad choice, for legibility's sake. Text is also way too small in a lot of places (recent thread text, username text in thread interface of boards)
Suggestions to make it better: Change the white font to the brown that's in the board descriptions. Done

Layout: 3
Likes: Solid. Typical of the theme. Good organization of sections, with important info. in the top and the roleplay section farther down.
Dislikes: Nothing to complain about.
Suggestions to make it better: None.

Content: 3
Likes: A good, concise description of the plot and rules. Not a lot of other material to speak of regarding content.
Dislikes: Some typos and small grammatical issues in the plot page and the rules are messy.
Suggestions to make it better: Consider changing the plot page to better fit the format of the rules. Maybe there was some lack of communication between the two staff members who created those pages. Consider uniformity in the layout of important threads.

[writersblock]

Thank you SO MUCH for your review, Rennat! The theme was just put in a few days ago, so there's still some tweaking, and I will definitely finish turning that white text to brown. I'm glad you liked the overall scheme though!

As for rules and plot, yes, two different staff members created those, and thanks for catching their differences. I'll work on making them the same.

If you ever think of anything that can bring this site to getting some 5's in your book, I'd love to hear it. But I appreciate the time you took in giving me some great feedback!

[Rennat]

No problem, I enjoyed it. If you have the time, I would love for you to review my board in exchange.

[Former Member]

writersblock The colors don't really go well with each other but I do like the layout. I agree with pretty much everything Rennat said.

[writersblock]

Thanks, @hadesfire! Do you have any advice on what colors might be changed to what to make it flow a bit better?

[Former Member]

If you want to keep the brown and blue colors, try changing the grey. writersblock