Madman Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 my 2 cents: I rather have 99 articles worth reading than 99 articles worth reading plus 300 stupid posts get rid of the board as the main thing on the site.You should install a content management system and add articles in categories and not post them in some of the 33 forums here.That will change the sites image from a usual forum-portal site to a website. Clean the forum up a bit, like the Dreamcast/Saturn thingy: Unpin some topics and/or merge em with others.Merge the Sega forums to one, there is too few activity in there.Same goes for Playstation. Could alter posting form to add a little identifier to the new topcs like [PSP] etc. If you just add more and more areas to the site and press them all into the forums, people will get lost here
Samurai Edge Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Here's my opinion.1) Try making the review section more attractive.2) We can make a tutorial section that teaches noobs how to get some harder emus to work. Take me as an example. When I first tried Chankast, I can't get it work until Agozer helped me. So, maybe we can have our members writing guides to attract pros and noobs. I believe PS, PS2, DC, DS emus are not that easy to noobs, especially when you need to burn, rip, mount CDs.
Sturmvogel Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 I like Madman's idea. Of course one can configure the forums they want to see with the + and minus things. I certainly feel, as Madman mentioned, that the site is to much of a portal with forum to prop it up. The forum as it is now can't do that.
gavin19 Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Call me a fool, but I believe a lot of the reason for the higher post rates a few years back was due to the whole DC (Direct Connect) thing. A lot of people migrated from the 1emu hubs to the forums to post queries, as I did, and some stuck around, even after the plug was pulled on the whole thing. Maybe I'm over-estimating it, but the DC link did provide a pretty big source of new members, and when changes were made it pissed a lot of people off who then left, and also cut off that source of newbies. Sorry, that wasn't particularly helpful but I thought I'd share it all the same. I have noticed a few forums recently lose a lot of posts/members. One thing they all changed which had a positive effect, was to condense sub-forums which has been suggested. Trying to cover too many bases was forcing people to search out more specific sites such as xbox-scene etc
James Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Maybe have contests of some sort , Maybe with online games for Xbox, PC or something like that .
GodPigeon Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Like Madman Said, this place is really Just One big Forum, there could be parts of the site where there are tutorials, Guides ect without looking in the forum. And some people might just need the extra help and join in on the forums. More affiliations is good. A Personal Profile wouldnt be bad either, with the HTML activated we can get creative and pics ect
Private Biscuit Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 A download space where are the newest version of all the emulators we can find (or at least the better ones) would work, it should give easy access to all of them and people wouldn't get lost searching in the news forum for the ones they want.
Agozer Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 A download space where are the newest version of all the emulators we can find (or at least the better ones) would work, it should give easy access to all of them and people wouldn't get lost searching in the news forum for the ones they want.We've been throwing around that particular idea for quite a while now, since we used that service in the past. Gordone: If you are talking about enabling HTML in posts, it's not going to happen.
GodPigeon Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 A download space where are the newest version of all the emulators we can find (or at least the better ones) would work, it should give easy access to all of them and people wouldn't get lost searching in the news forum for the ones they want.We've been throwing around that particular idea for quite a while now, since we used that service in the past. Gordone: If you are talking about enabling HTML in posts, it's not going to happen.nah i meant for the profile idea.
Madman Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Oh wee i'm glad my suggestion found some positive feedback. But i sense some differences here: On the one hand, you want an active forum.On the other hand, you want to stand out from the rest. I think thats the main problem of the site:There are like thousands of sites like 1emu around:A Portal thingy, plugged ontop of a forum software.Dont get me wrong, my romuniverse wasnt much different, but it didnt work out in the long term.I learned something from my half a dozend websites i did over the years. The reason is simple:The web is a place of people taking stuff and not giving anything in return.I noted that on romuniverse and i especially see it daily since my sidtool is out.With almost 1000 unique visitors within 2 months and over 200 downloads of 1.0 RC1 alone within like one week, what ammount of feedback would you expect ? I can tell you, its nothing, nada, Z-I-P.When romuniverse was up, within its 2-3 years of existance it had like 30 people posting on the forums regulary. So get rid of the idea that people will participate on your site for the sites being. The web is full of leechers. Its that way, you cant do anything against it. Example: When i came to the forums a few mins ago, there were 9 members online, and 139 guests. Get the idea ? Now there is some more i want to bring in:You have a lot of consoles here that are covered in the forums. From oldschool (S)NES to PS3 and XBoX 360. Divide that up. To make it simple: You may have like 13 people here for each console supported. Thats not enough to get activity here, considered the leecher mentality on the web.If only 1/10th of people register here, cause they find the site interesting, you end up in 1/100th,cause the site covers too much. I dont know, how to explain this exactly. Look at some popular sites on the web. When you load them up in your browser, you dont get 20 news each day.Lets take the old lemon64.com for example. You load it up, and you get LOADs of content. And the forum isnt the thing that jumps at you. Yet its very active. Why ? Cause people get there, get hooked to the site and then sign up the forums. At least thats what i think. Also, 1emu is called an "Emulation" site. Then i ask myself, what got Xbox, PS2, PS3, Nintendo DS and all the other stuff to do here ? They are not being emulated any well since today. So what is the focus of 1emu ? Is it emulation ? Then focus on emulation and dont compete with all these rich game sites, cause you cant win.Is it nextgen consoles ? Then screw the oldskool crap, and get ready for teens flooding your site with ISO requests. And there is another thingi tell you: In the end you will be more successfull when focussing on oldskool stuff. The nextgen consoles have teens glued to them, while the oldskool stuff has mature people interested in them. Thats why 25 years after C64 was released there are still people holding demo compos in 2007 and code stuff like sidtool. On SNES there are many hacksites, people hack roms to translate Japanese games to English and german, people mod the roms. People code stuff like Jumpman under Construction or look at Arno who released its 20th Boulder Dash game in 2006. Or look at me. I come here since 4 years now. Anything like that for any PSX related site ? Any PSX hacks out there ? You cant have both. 1emu misses a focus, and only sites with a clear focus attract people.What the focus will be, is determined by the people that have supported 1emu over the years.Noone of that guys into oldskool ? Then compete with ngemu. OK, thats it for today. Beer is empty Forgive me if i pissed you off with anything, but its how i see things.
Fatal Rose Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 The myspace thing and the HTML edit option in profiles seems interesting and would attract new members. Also the idea of changing the main page around with downloaded hardware to make it look more like a website then just a forum would work too. Also there are waaaaaaaay to many sub forums or whatever you call it, gets confusing to n00bs and annoying to sort through when you are searching for something or just have a simple question.
CJ Jackson Posted February 18, 2007 Posted February 18, 2007 Upgrade the attack system and allow users to opt-out, browsing the board without being a victim and that would be nice for some.
Shibathedog Posted February 19, 2007 Posted February 19, 2007 Oh yeah tutorials are a big thing, We need lots of tutorials, Theres a lot of websites i visit all the time now simply because i used some of their tutorials and then found they had other cool stuff on them.
Madman Posted February 21, 2007 Posted February 21, 2007 Oh yeah tutorials are a big thing, We need lots of tutorials, Theres a lot of websites i visit all the time now simply because i used some of their tutorials and then found they had other cool stuff on them. What i said.
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