Digital Campfire

[WhisperandSpeaks]

Can I get some feedback?

digitalcampfire.proboards.com

[WhisperandSpeaks]

I would like a review please

[Kami]

Feb 5, 2024 9:05:07 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

Can I get some feedback?

digitalcampfire.proboards.com

Feb 6, 2024 12:22:39 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

I would like a review please

What kind of feedback? Can you provide some information about the forum (like what it's about) and what you're looking to get out of the feedback you receive?

[WhisperandSpeaks]

Feb 6, 2024 19:47:31 GMT -8 Kami said:

Feb 5, 2024 9:05:07 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

Can I get some feedback?

digitalcampfire.proboards.com

Feb 6, 2024 12:22:39 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

I would like a review please

What kind of feedback? Can you provide some information about the forum (like what it's about) and what you're looking to get out of the feedback you receive?

my forum is a general chat I was looking for some tips to improve the quality 

[Kami]

Feb 6, 2024 19:53:20 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

Feb 6, 2024 19:47:31 GMT -8 Kami said:

What kind of feedback? Can you provide some information about the forum (like what it's about) and what you're looking to get out of the feedback you receive?

my forum is a general chat I was looking for some tips to improve the quality 

of the content, or the appearance, or both?

[WhisperandSpeaks]

Feb 6, 2024 21:51:10 GMT -8 Kami said:

Feb 6, 2024 19:53:20 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

my forum is a general chat I was looking for some tips to improve the quality 

of the content, or the appearance, or both?

Of the content 

[Kami]

Feb 7, 2024 8:39:26 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

Feb 6, 2024 21:51:10 GMT -8 Kami said:

of the content, or the appearance, or both?

Of the content 

Content-wise, my 0.02 is that it's okay. It's a general chat forum, so I don't really expect a whole lot of innovation here as far as how content is arranged or talked about. I don't really know how to give feedback on content when the purpose of the forum is to chat about whatever people feel like chatting about. You have a decent number of boards for a variety of topics.

I will ask though, what is the difference between your "General Discussion" board and your "Off Topic" board? They seem to both be catch-alls for things that don't fit into the other boards, so how would a user know which one to post in?

[WhisperandSpeaks]

Feb 7, 2024 11:50:48 GMT -8 Kami said:

Feb 7, 2024 8:39:26 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

Of the content 

Content-wise, my 0.02 is that it's okay. It's a general chat forum, so I don't really expect a whole lot of innovation here as far as how content is arranged or talked about. I don't really know how to give feedback on content when the purpose of the forum is to chat about whatever people feel like chatting about. You have a decent number of boards for a variety of topics.

I will ask though, what is the difference between your "General Discussion" board and your "Off Topic" board? They seem to both be catch-alls for things that don't fit into the other boards, so how would a user know which one to post in?

They can post in either one I could combine the two. I’ve done my best to have a lot of ice breaker boards to get conversations going.

If you were to give it a rating 1-10 where am I at Kami ?

[Kami]

Feb 7, 2024 11:56:31 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

Feb 7, 2024 11:50:48 GMT -8 Kami said:

Content-wise, my 0.02 is that it's okay. It's a general chat forum, so I don't really expect a whole lot of innovation here as far as how content is arranged or talked about. I don't really know how to give feedback on content when the purpose of the forum is to chat about whatever people feel like chatting about. You have a decent number of boards for a variety of topics.

I will ask though, what is the difference between your "General Discussion" board and your "Off Topic" board? They seem to both be catch-alls for things that don't fit into the other boards, so how would a user know which one to post in?

They can post in either one I could combine the two. I’ve done my best to have a lot of ice breaker boards to get conversations going.

If you were to give it a rating 1-10 where am I at Kami ?

If they're the same thing then yeah, absolutely combine them -- boards with more content in them tend to signal "this forum has an active community" to prospective members, so it's usually better to have fewer boards / use subboards more. EG: you can lump all of those open-ended prompt boards into 1 prompt board, and then use those boards as subboards, that way from a guest first impression they'll see that board is super active, rather than having the activity look smaller over more boards.

Rating from 1-10, with 1 being "worst ever" and 10 being "perfect no notes", I'd give:
- 8 for just the content
- 6 for the whole package

The content itself is what I'd expect from a general chat forum. There's nothing particularly new or groundbreaking about what the content is, but that's okay IMO; if the forum is a place to talk about anything and everything (within reason/permissible content per the TOS) then having areas to talk about stuff is basically all that's necessary. Where I do think you can improve content-wise is just have better opening posts; a lot of the opening posts I see is a line or two, and it doesn't really generate the need for people to engage further.

For the forum as a whole, honestly I just think the aesthetics are pretty, but strange and not very cohesive with each other, or the genre of the forum. The name of the forum is Digital Campfire, but the anime banner really throws off the first impressions. I would definitely encourage you to take a peek at other general chat forums and see the type of themes they have as default.

[WhisperandSpeaks]

I gave the place a new look

[Kami]

Feb 9, 2024 8:51:39 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

I gave the place a new look

Definitely think this helps set expectations a bit better. One note -- you may want to give your forum a fixed pixel width, or at least set the banner image to centred, because on larger resolutions there's a pretty big gap on the right-hand side of the banner.

[bigballofyarn]

Is this the look you are going for, for your banner? I would follow Kami's banner advice. This is how it looks on my laptop.

[WhisperandSpeaks]

Feb 9, 2024 9:06:32 GMT -8 Kami said:

Feb 9, 2024 8:51:39 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

I gave the place a new look

Definitely think this helps set expectations a bit better. One note -- you may want to give your forum a fixed pixel width, or at least set the banner image to centred, because on larger resolutions there's a pretty big gap on the right-hand side of the banner.

Oh my I was looking at it on my phone I didn’t know it looked like that 

[WhisperandSpeaks]

It should be fixed now

[Kami]

Feb 9, 2024 13:09:20 GMT -8 WhisperandSpeaks said:

It should be fixed now

Def looks better! No further notes from me, best of luck :)