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#1 ·
Alright... onward and upward, right?

With the vB conversion, not a lot of our custom forum stuff was transferred over. We're currently using the vB default for just about everything, which is making our site look rather... plain.

So... if you've got any suggestions on how we can improve or better the site for its users, please let us know. No matter how big or how small, give us some ideas :) vB is pretty flexible, but keep in mind it does have its limitations and some things just won't be possible to implement. We'll do our best though.
 
#2 ·
I go on a few sites where they have a new banner every month ( the picture at the top of the screen).

We could have a monthly banner that people could submit and the admin would pick one and post it. These could be artistic works, photos, or anything. Black and white. Sepia. Color. The only restrictions would be size and it would have to say "Rat Forum"

Thanks for reading!
 
#3 ·
I love the banner idea! The admins could even have themed contests every month and the winner would be featured until the next contest winner was picked.
 
#6 ·
could also pick a person randomly to highlight their rats, a random rat of the day :) something like that. ive seen it on a horse game, they chose a horse at random to have on the main page. im not sure how it would be done lol.
 
#7 ·
If you have a thread dedicated to the contest, people could post with a picture of their rat, and the mods could put their names into a random generator every month for the rat of the month. Daily might be a little much... :)
 
#8 ·
There was a thread for ROTM at one point- I dunno if it's still going.

My only suggestion is perhaps in the details section under each username to have how many rats they own.

Like it would say
Maltey
Skritch lover
(Photo)
Join DateJun 2011LocationEgham, UKPosts302
Number of rats: 5
 
#9 ·
The contests are kind of on hold until further notice, or so I believe. I thought it would be neat for everyone to have an equal chance at it. Kind of like a featured member of the month/week.
 
#10 ·
We had a Rat of the Month contest but it was accidentally deleted at some point and we've all been too tight on time to revive it right now.

The unfortunate thing with reoccuring contests/features is that someone has to actually be around to manually set stuff up... only me and Kiko have rights to change the homepage banner right now and we've both been very busy lately.
 
#11 ·
how about just a featured rat of the week/month? no contest, just to highlight a cute rattie :) then you guys wouldnt have to do much just post it for a bit then take it down to post a new one? i think it would be cool to see ppls rats and hear maybe a short story about that rat? maybe do a contest later on when you guys have more time or something but for now just do the Random Rat :) it would be fun and simpler plus i think it would help bring our little rat community closer. (and make somebody feel important!) :) :)
 
#12 ·
my computer keeps double posting so sorry if i post the same thing lol
 
#16 ·
I love the rat of the month idea. Like maybe a cute pic of the rattie. Their age. Color. A little info about them.
I think it would be great!
 
#23 ·
I do not like the current image uploader. I think you should just remove that and make it so people have to upload on imgur or something and can link the image into the forums. I'd gladly make an easy to understand forum post about how to get the image linked into a post.

My problem with the current one is people will delete their images so that they can upload new ones. So I'll be looking through a post and then click on an attachment that no longer exists and then I'm done with that thread. I know it's mainly the older posts that have this problem but still I'd like to read some of those older threads and be able to see the images.

The other option would be to allow each user more image hosting space but then you'd probably need a larger server. That really isn't necessary though.

If there is some way you can keep the current images hosted and linked and to still do away with the image uploader that'd be fantastic!

Also an android app. I know tapatalk is a common android app and it supports Vbulletin. I don't know what the cost is to add it to your forum but you should look into it.
 
#24 ·
All these infrastructure things are out of the standard admin/mod's control. I have not been able to get in touch with Yungster lately :(
 
#25 ·
Ok so this has nothing to do with what is being talked about, but I do not understand this site at all and there is not a lot of instruction to how to do anything with the site. I can not figure out how to post any questions I have and when I click on settings next to the logout button it tells me that I may not be allowed on that link or page I am very confused and probably will not be using this site often when I can not do anything it also logs me out on it's own very often. If anyone has any tips or anything for me to understand this site more please message me. :)
 
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