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shaitan

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Any thoughts?
« on: February 04, 2007, 01:16:51 PM »
I'm throwing this open.

We've got the forums, and the fledgling news site (http://deadite.net/news)

Is there anything we can do or add to add to your experience? Do you want to get involved? Do you have any ideas how we can improve?

Any and all comments and suggestions are welcome.
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huleboeren

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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #1 on: February 06, 2007, 11:45:28 PM »
Uhh, more users
Theres 3-4 max checking this forum every day :/
I want the old forum back :(

Force redirect all visitors to this forum?  ;D
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shaitan

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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2007, 07:48:43 PM »
Not much I can do about that i'm afraid. These forums aren't part of Newzbin, so it's out of my control.

However, if you have any ideas about how to increase the userbase, i'll be happy to hear them.
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huleboeren

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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2007, 08:55:58 PM »
Spam is all I can think of :/
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2007, 09:01:11 PM »
Quote from: huleboeren on February 07, 2007, 08:55:58 PM
Spam is all I can think of :/


That's not an option.
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huleboeren

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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #5 on: February 07, 2007, 10:11:10 PM »
Perhaps do a merger with another usenet forum?
Slycks?

I dunno
Not many usenet'ters out there :P
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shaitan

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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #6 on: February 07, 2007, 10:23:38 PM »
The forums were set up to replace the original Newzbin forums.

I don't think a merger with another forum would be of any benefit. It's all a matter of coming up with something that visitors want. That's why I started this topic, to see if anyone had any sound ideas.
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #7 on: February 08, 2007, 01:07:40 AM »
shaitan maybe if we offer free usenet lessons or something?

I don't know. I know no one wants to teach someone to use usenet and its always best for people to learn usenet on their own first! I know horrible idea lol.



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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #8 on: February 08, 2007, 02:54:29 AM »
Maybe have a section for guides on the top 5 newsreaders, quickpar, winrar, winzip and any other programs that are commonly used. I know this has been done on other forums, but if it's don here those of us that use other forums could provide links to here to increase traffic (if that's what your looking for).
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #9 on: February 08, 2007, 05:49:46 AM »
Quote from: jplus503 on February 08, 2007, 02:54:29 AM
Maybe have a section for guides on the top 5 newsreaders, quickpar, winrar, winzip and any other programs that are commonly used. I know this has been done on other forums, but if it's don here those of us that use other forums could provide links to here to increase traffic (if that's what your looking for).

That sounds good?
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #10 on: February 08, 2007, 12:41:34 PM »
Not a bad idea. I'll create a new section tonight called User Guides.

Hopefully, we'll get some good guides relating to all the programs/tools that people use.
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #11 on: February 08, 2007, 03:58:21 PM »
Hello,
Long time no see ...

I don't know for this forum.
I know i enjoyed a lot the old ones and I learnt a lot from them.

I don't see how you could improve the number of readers.
The only way would be to re attach it to newzbin again, in some way ... (1-2-3 messages a day per users ? )
and that's probably not what you guys want to do...

i dunno ...
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #12 on: February 08, 2007, 04:03:35 PM »
Simply having a news item on Newzbin front page reminding people that the forum is here would probably create more users, as the news items there are few and far between it would get a fair amount of views i would think.  Although you probably split off for a reason so this is maybe not an option?
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #13 on: February 09, 2007, 08:24:50 PM »
Yeah, guides are always good.
are you not allowed to link to this forum from the top panel? (    *   Home  * News    * Browse    * Search    * My Account    * Support     Statistics    * Forum   * Help)

It would be alot more noticable.
And perhaps change the forum? Cheap-forums seems abit....cheap :P
Maybe try Invisionboard, vBulletin or phpBB? They seem alot more advanced
- If newzbin wont pay for it, invisionfree offers free invisionboards (I dont know what theyre capable of tho)
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Re: Any thoughts?
« Reply #14 on: February 09, 2007, 10:22:03 PM »
Quote from: huleboeren on February 09, 2007, 08:24:50 PM
are you not allowed to link to this forum from the top panel? (    *   Home  * News    * Browse    * Search    * My Account    * Support     Statistics    * Forum   * Help)

It would be alot more noticable.
And perhaps change the forum? Cheap-forums seems abit....cheap :P
Maybe try Invisionboard, vBulletin or phpBB? They seem alot more advanced


First off, these forums are not part of, nor are they run by Newzbin. There's an advert for the forums on v3 of the site, but that's as far as it goes.
As for using a different forum software, I tried the others, and I wasn't overly keen on them. SMF does what I need it to do.
As for cheap-forums, i'm not averse to change. That's something I can look into.
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