Angelic's Full Site Feedback

Welp, I will try to make this a feedback thread full of the highlights of this forum and some of the things I feel that I personally want to point out, of course it will ALL be constructive criticism. In no way am I trying to be negative or putting down anything with the points I will make out throughout this feedback thread and I hope you can either learn from what I say and actually think about it and take the compliments I give in good light since I am not going to just say "HEY GREAT SITE YOU HAVE HERE." I am mainly doing a feedback thread because I do like to do them for sites I am actually active on and want to see grow and strive for more.

I'll basically go through a few things that you will see in my table contents, below. So without further ado here we go. *Says in Mario voice*

Table of contents:

• Community
  
• Design and Layout
  
• Staff
  
• Groups
  
• Conclusion
  

Community:
So the community, that is active is a mixture between another forum that a lot of users came from and people that come from those pay to post sites to gain activity. It's not an awful combo, of course. The threads are usually new and fresh for the most part and there is usually something to post about which is a huge deal for forums, in general. I personally would like to see advertising elsewhere for obvious reasons since I see the same type of people join, post a bit and then go away. Would most likely benefit this forum if you got advertisement on other big boards that allow it and have a steady, active userbase that are full of users that want to be apart of a community, rather than post a bit then leave.
That being said, I have no idea where you are doing your advertising as you are a pretty old forum compared to most newer ones that are trying these days, you created something when general forums weren't as saturated as they are now so that gives you an edge.. or did I guess? I will assume things have went dorment through the years as the activity didn't pick up since another forum closed down and you got handed a nice chunk of active users.

Overall the community is friendly and has a nice group of users that are more than the "no profiles" (people who don't edit their avatar and signature, etc.) Hopefully you advertise in more places, maybe make contests to draw in users to do more to help you with that or something in the same nature as that.

Design and Layout:
So at first the site is pretty simple to look at, and dark. Which is a bonus to me, personally. I actually like the simplistic nature of the theme and the features you have within it. You can do a lot with it, from the custom CSS to the more simple way of just changing the color of it. The logo is fitting to the name and it is pretty user friendly, it highlights the key points of what people kind of need to see. There isn't many bugs if at all that I have found, except for that userbar hue issue but it isn't that big of a deal and I do hope to see it fixed in the next update on the theme.

The emojis.. oh god.. I really do you get some new ones, I have yet to see many people use these phone app like things. They are rather boring and don't fit the forum at all in my opinion or the group that uses it. I'm sure you can figure out a few different styles and genre of emojis to get if you look at what kind of community you have around you. (Gamers and weebs *hint hint*) But kudos on a nice looking theme that isn't hard on the eyes and makes my head hurt.

Staff:
Okay, so I'll just go through the staff team and give a little bit of feedback on each one. I won't be doing section mods since I'm more focused on people that have a little more presence on a smaller community geared forum as this one is.