What would make you join?

Cool, appreciate the feedback. In response to those...

Some of the themes are not my work, I'll take a look at the Sakura theme for those bits as I haven't given that theme much of a look. You're not wrong though, so I'll be re-examining the themes.

I may end up doing that at some point, the primary issue is that I'd need to look into bringing current stuff like threads and whatnot elsewhere. Thats where the real problem lies; and I'll be very honest, the original head admin no longer visits, and he never left any means of contacting him. I'm not entirely sure how much I need him for that kind of stuff, so... I'd like to think theres a way around it, sure, but we'll see what happens.

You're not exactly wrong about that, I'm gonna think on rearranging things.

As for the signature thing, again that is something I agree with. I recently enforced a new rule to limit your signature to one image, or two small ones, as people were cramming absolutely massive images into their signature. My main concern is taking away people's freedoms. SIA is for a niche game, so we knew we'd never draw in an absurdly huge crowd either. So its important to me and others to have it remain at least somewhat chill.

Again, appreciate your feedback. If you've ever got any other thoughts, please do let me know.

Unfortunately I dont think anyone on staff currently has pockets deep enough for giveaways, heheh. But we do have a twitter that updates with all the news and then some.

Tbh I thought about the themes thing and the big sized animated signatures too.

And about the Proboards issue... I know you are hosting here because previously this was a small community but, with donations plus advertising, maybe we could get a better hosting (we did it with a Touhou Project forum and it was great, but the main admin messed it all and the community went all wrong).

If the original admin is MIA, do you really need him for these things?

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What about trying to get more official talking with the XSEED and Marvelous Europe community managers? The guys in these companies, and not only talking about the CM, are great! We can try to do something.

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Maybe we could rearrange the forums and make them feel more focused. Put all the offtopic into one forum and then, inside it, a subforum for each (Movies, Videogames, etc).
The art forum should be out of the offtopic.

I am just new in here and I was checking this forum for quite some time before joining. As some said, here is a lot of material from over the years and some of the stuff is really interesting but as here is also lots of fans, messages might get lost quickly. Unfortunately big forums has often issues like topics keeps to get lost and topics come quickly too big and feels unorganised.

I can say that as someone who was following these forums as a reader, this was sometimes the case. I tried to find some stuff I was reading but when I tried to find it next time, I wasn´t able to find it anymore. Sometimes only thing what helped me was to go to search website and search with keywords you remembered. By the way, does this forum has an activity tracker on your profile? It could be good to see just with one click where youve posted the last time.

Also from my earlier forum experiences, too big animated signatures also slow down some computers a lot and might not look always cool. On forums I´ve been earlier, it´s been one of the things which is often a problem and one of those things the forumers often battle about. Often solution has been that the forum gets some sort of guide about sizes and do those who can´t make their own, have got some sort of official signature maker and problem has been solved. Of course commercials are also one thing but you get rid of them yourself if you just want to. Also on my short time here, I´ve already had a problem few times when pages, especially front page just takes a long time to load for a reason or another. I guess it´s Computer related through but my internet connection is not bad.

What after all got me to join was still the fact that I like Senran Kagura and I would think the fans of Senran Kagura will appreciate a bigger forum like this. These days forums are just not so easy anymore in the world of social media´s . Also as Senran Kagura is just as it is, I think some people are a bit scared just to join for here.

So in short, keep it simple, keep the forum in good condition, keep it fresh , give lots of options for people to make the forum as them prefers with a bit of rules like with sizes (themes,signatures etc. ) and I think the forum keeps running well.

I'll be totally honest with you. Having been on many forums, often with some of the most obnoxious members I've ever met, I find SIA to be a huge, refreshing atmosphere. Ever since I took over its only gotten better. Yeah, we may have a few bad eggs from time to time, but only 2 or 3 for roughly 1,000 members isn't bad at all. Even then, every community is bound to have a few undesirables.

What I can tell you though on a lighter note, is that SIA is super welcoming and I'm very proud to have this userbase, as the vast majority of members are friendly, welcoming, and just plain great in so many ways. 


Also mixaj, we do actually have rules in place for those things! 200 px height signature limit, and with gifs we're not super strict, but we ask that you try to keep it down to a small gif, like an animated sprite. Refer to my Jotaro signature for reference. Typically when someone's signature is too big, I just ask them to get rid of it, and they do.

As for searching for things, activity trackers, and so on, this is all proboards. I'm occasionally looking into new plug-ins and whatnot, but I am limited in what I can do unless we ever had someone willing to pay for us to move to a better forum service. I also do not own SIA technically, I took over cause the original admin just up and disappeared. I'm working with the hand I've been dealt, really.

Thank you for the positive feedback. We shall continue to make this forum a better place for all.