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Old 2013-01-07, 05:36 AM   #2
ecchi
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Join Date: Oct 2003
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Like the page design but:

1. You need a better first page after the warn. What I got was a page asking me to sign up for a free account. You must first show your surfers what the boards look like (perhaps without posting privileges). Never, ever, ask them to sign up before letting them see the site. You just look like an email harvester. You will get about 99% of surfers running away with this first page. Worse, those that do sign up will mostly be idiots, and your boards will be full of moronic posts that will scare people off. You need to go directly from the warn page to http://harrybeaverslodge.com/board/index.php

2. And when someone does try to sign up, it doesn't work! I filled in my details and got a blank page. Trying to log in with the details I gave it just got me an "unknown account" error. If this is not a script error, then it may be a hardware issue. Boards are heavy CGI users, and if you don't have a powerful enough server they fuck up under heavy load and simply fail to execute commands.

3. You are aware that when you run a board you have to post constantly yourself to keep them going aren't you? That is even more important on a start up board. I mention this because there appear to have been no posts yesterday and only one on Saturday. There should have been a minimum of one on every single board on every single day from you. If you don't post like mad, no one else will, and the board will fail.

4. Be aware the board will need constant policing or it will be used to share content rips, file sharing, and illegal stories ("how I raped my twelve year old daughter" type thing).
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