- Jan 8, 2013
- 109
Hi, this is my first post. I have a suggestion.
IMHO, the forum is too fragmented. Make a subsection for antivirus, one for firewalls, one for HIPS, one for virtualization. The way you have it now, it's like if every product has a barrier separating it from users of another product. This "isolation", doesn't attract people IMHO. If you had a flood of posts everyday about each product, i could undestand the need for separation, given the volume of posts. But now?
The same goes for Software section. 3D and graphics has a separate forum? Why? How many do you expect to come and post about it? Simply, the few who want, take a look, see a "dead" forum and go search for another forum.
By allowing people to "mingle" in different subjects, you attract more users. Same for other sections. "Audio,video, etc". Seriously? How many people in a forum for MALWARE, do you expect to go post in there? Simply, if i was in deed interested in audio,video and saw that it's "dead", i 'd simply go to hydrogen audio and doom9, who are dedicated fora.
What i m saying, is that you 're trying to make it "Jack of all trades and master of none", the end result being, killing the potential of this forum.
Same goes for "Hardware discussions and hardware showcase". If you were a hardware enthusiast forum, i 'd understand, that given the volume of posts that flood your forum about hardware, you 'd want to make a "hardware showcase" separate forum. Again, in a MALWARE forum, how many people do you expect to go "showcase" their hardware in a near-empty forum?
This is one of the most under-exploited fora i 've seen due to the bad layout.
I hope i didn't offend anyone, just trying to help.
IMHO, the forum is too fragmented. Make a subsection for antivirus, one for firewalls, one for HIPS, one for virtualization. The way you have it now, it's like if every product has a barrier separating it from users of another product. This "isolation", doesn't attract people IMHO. If you had a flood of posts everyday about each product, i could undestand the need for separation, given the volume of posts. But now?
The same goes for Software section. 3D and graphics has a separate forum? Why? How many do you expect to come and post about it? Simply, the few who want, take a look, see a "dead" forum and go search for another forum.
By allowing people to "mingle" in different subjects, you attract more users. Same for other sections. "Audio,video, etc". Seriously? How many people in a forum for MALWARE, do you expect to go post in there? Simply, if i was in deed interested in audio,video and saw that it's "dead", i 'd simply go to hydrogen audio and doom9, who are dedicated fora.
What i m saying, is that you 're trying to make it "Jack of all trades and master of none", the end result being, killing the potential of this forum.
Same goes for "Hardware discussions and hardware showcase". If you were a hardware enthusiast forum, i 'd understand, that given the volume of posts that flood your forum about hardware, you 'd want to make a "hardware showcase" separate forum. Again, in a MALWARE forum, how many people do you expect to go "showcase" their hardware in a near-empty forum?
This is one of the most under-exploited fora i 've seen due to the bad layout.
I hope i didn't offend anyone, just trying to help.
