Your Personal Review - BaysideGamers

[Empire]

Hello,

This is on your own time and I'm not asking much in your free time, but feel free to have your say regards https://www.baysidegamers.com/

Made many changes over the six years and always improving it and fixing broken things.

 

[Reverie]

First glance:
When I open the site I notice the light and dark feature - I always love this! On the light theme though the Welcome message needs to get a different color as it is not legible to a guest. Like the change color feature as well.

Go to Forums area:
I like the layout - simple and has a bit of everything. I notice you have an affiliates section. I wonder if it would be an interest to your members to have a section dedicated to Member's Streaming/Youtube channels? I would think this would fit well under "Content Creator's Lounge"

I like the icons next to each forum.

As I'm writing this, I did think of a change of the order of forums for the World of Gaming category. I think I would do the following:
- General Gaming Discussion
- Individual Game Threads
- Console Discussion
- PC Gaming
- Content Creators Lounge
The reason is because it prioritizes general gaming and specific game discussion.

I think something that is missing currently is a graphic logo that represents Bayside Gamers.

I see a logo with BG and a controller somehow embedded perhaps!

Overall I think you're doing great! I like the overall appearance of the community and it appears to be otherwise well organized! Great job!

 

[Empire]

Member's Streaming/Youtube channels? I would think this would fit well under "Content Creator's Lounge"

That was something that was considered also as a plugin but at the same time it's getting people to post, We used to have a Twitch streaming page but with IPS updates alone on the road, I can't keep it updated and was not being used that often

 

[Reverie]

That was something that was considered also as a plugin but at the same time it's getting people to post, We used to have a Twitch streaming page but with IPS updates alone on the road, I can't keep it updated and was not being used that often

That's fair. I would have it as a forum area and if it became more of a need or a huge interest, then I would consider a plugin - I suppose it could be like a link directory though?

 

[Empire]

Made those changes on the forums index As regards the logo that's something that was done about 2 years ago via Ash and since then I did not really made any changes.