Forum Name:
The Lounge Board

Forum URL:
The Lounge Board - It's where the Net comes to Loiter

Comments:
An active and diverse community which enjoys general topic discussions. Topics ranging from social issues, car discussions, the hottest music, current events, sports and much much more. Areas: Loiter Lounge Sports Authority PMS Central Personal Finance The Garage Yard Sale Sound Stage - (where artists can have their work critiqued) Reviews - music review section Gig Guide - promote your local event * Software: vBulletin 3.6.8 w/LBC Tube * Members: 2,680 * Threads: 18,647 * Posts: 259,342 Guests can view up to 5 threads before they have to register.

Categories for Review
Design
Features and Modifications
Guest Friendliness
Guidelines and Staff
Organization and Navigation

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IT's WHERE THE NET COMES TO LOITER

Design
I am quite happy with the design. It is clean, and crisp. Easy to look at and navigate. You can easily identify the key areas etc.

I am a bit iffy about your logo. I think, with a board like you have, you should have a nice attractive logo to accompany the design. I am also not too keen on the adverts, but I guess it has worked for you so no harm.

Features and Modifications
Quite a nice video feature you have, and this seems to be quite active as well. So that is a nice addition.

Possibly an arcade would make a nice addition to the community. Removing adverts after registration is a good feature, because those adverts are annoying!

Guest Friendliness
As I mentioned, I really don't like the big adverts, pushing all the content down. But I guess that is your decision. You have a nice message at the top telling us what the forum is about, so that is quite friendly.

This worries me though: Happy Diwali

Guidelines and Staff
Just check the post I mentioned above, I didn't like that one bit - puts me off completely.

You have a link to the staff list and you seem to have a good number of staff. You also have a support sections, which I guess is good and a tidy way of handling things.

You also have Rules, but the link was in the footer, maybe you could move it up. Rules cover the important stuff, so that is okay.

Organization and Navigation

Everything is fine. Good number of forums. Good number of moderators. Navigation clear and easy to access. Just one problem - I expect the home link to go to the home of the forum. Maybe you should add a forum link that goes to the forum and have a separate link for the main site.

There ya go

Great site friend!!!
I really do envy this !!!

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JuzMazaaa

nice design, would like to see how well something like that would do

Design:
I´m not a friend of extraordinary graphs, but this is a bit too puristic for me.
Also blue colour is a "cold" colour, so some "warm" red / orange" could add a bit


Features and Modifications
Difficult to say bewing not a regular user, but at least adding the videos on the front page is a good idea


Guest Friendliness
Hmm ... sometimes a bit sarcastic

Guidelines and Staff
Didn´t notice anything unusual

Organization and Navigation
Clear navigation and labelling, seems OK for me

In general I have a mixed feeling about a forum covering that wide range of topics, on the long run I think it would be better to give a certain focus on one theme