Improvements to the site as a whole

This is where we suggest improvements to the site as a whole I will look at ideas at the end of each week.

Make this site more democratic, some ideas are too good to just be told "no" to without a vote.

Add a scroll bar thingy that shows all the current posts to keep people updated. I asked Aizen about but he didn't know how to do it.

I'm going to copy a post I made in another thread, seeing as how it probably fits better here and has a better chance of being seen:

I've said this before (although I don't think anyone ever read the post), but we need to break down General Discussion into several different areas of discussion (Video Games, Off Topic, etc.). I'm well aware we're a Pokemon site (and a competitive battling one at that), but everything being about Pokemon with a minuscule amount of other discussion topics makes for a dull forum. People are going to come to the site and see that we have little more than competitive discussion (and a practically dead forum), and be turned off from the site. Mind you, competitive discussion can be "fun", for lack of a better word, but you don't eat the same thing for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, right? Dividing GD as I said could give a second chance to what is essentially a bland forum and heighten the amount of discussion that takes place on the site, something we desperately, desperately need. And I don't mean making sub-sections. I'm talking completely getting rid of "General Discussion" and placing several more specific sections in its place. Just having a chat box is not going to cut it for most people, and I hope I'm not the only one who realizes this.

Have you ever noticed how it's mostly either the very new members or regulars that participate in the site ("participating" including making posts on the forum and chatbox alike)? About a good 85-90% of the site's members aren't active, and I can't help but think that evolving (no pun intended) this site to more than a chatbox could greatly change that.

Maybe we aren't even eligible for a "second chance" yet; maybe we haven't even screwed up our hypothetical first one, considering we're still such a tiny site, but whatever it is that's keeping people from sticking around, it needs to change ,and soon.

This is a very good idea. =D I'll put this into consideration

I'm sorry to bump this, but I really have this thing with the spoilers. Is there a way to make them dark, so that they blend in? it bugs me to death.

EpicNinjaBear wrote:I'm sorry to bump this, but I really have this thing with the spoilers. Is there a way to make them dark, so that they blend in? it bugs me to death.

I'd have to agree...


Also, the icons for calendar and gallery are bugging the heck out of me x_x

Maybe you could try a different skin? That could solve both of those problems~

I'll go look for some ^.^

Griffin! I noticed that you are on Dream League too!

lol took you long enough xD I'm the owner lol

And as for skins... here's some that I found~

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Note: some things such as font size in the boxes on the sides can easily be changed with a little css/html

Theme: http://en.hitskin.com/?afolder=theme&id=172924
Preview: http://nightmare.forumotions.net/?theme_id=172924
Comments:
-Spoiler has dark background
-top welcome box can be fixed with some css
-chatbox is a mess ._. you could try to fix the css... or get a different kind of chat >.> the formotion chat does have that problem with posting images :/


Theme: http://en.hitskin.com/?afolder=theme&id=166102
Preview: http://nightmare.forumotions.net/?theme_id=166102
Comments:
-spoiler has a white BG... but that can easily be fixed in the css. i like how it's rounded <3
- i like how the thing that says "online" is positioned in the posts
-those headers annoy me o-o but it's easy to either a. take out the image altogether and fill with a color OR b. just change the image to something that works better
-THE CHAT LOOKS EPIC

Theme: http://en.hitskin.com/?afolder=theme&id=160749
Preview: http://nightmare.forumotions.net/?theme_id=160749
Comments:
-the general BG looks sooo pretty <3
-the spoilers are awesome
-the text size in the custom side panels needs to be changed
-the general headers are great
-the chat is a little squished :/ but you can change font size in css
-the greeting and descriptions look really long in such a small space :/

I like the skins ...and who is the person in your sig? Is that YOU?

well they were the best i found out of 18 pages of crap xD

EpicNinjaBear wrote:who is the person in your sig? Is that YOU?

The text in my sig is the song title (it's in the bottom left of the vid too ^)
Masafumi Gotoh is the lead singer