Originally Posted by
Shingeki
I guess the lot of you can't handle constructive criticism very well. As much as I heard unjustified censorship was a problem on these forums, I didn't want to believe it seeing as this is a forum for an iPhone game, but wow, physically removing a thread (not even soft-deleting it) without any reasoning from whichever moderator deleted it? Were neutral words too much for you moderators to handle? Yeah, whatever, edit this part out mods if you wish but I'm trying to help you guys out here so this site isn't obnoxious to browse. The sole purpose of this subforum is geared towards taking suggestions to make the site a better place and my thread - breaking absolutely no forum rules at all - gets deleted. I'm willing to bet this one will too. Again, feel free to delete this segment if you wish but I'm trying to give you helpful criticism with happier diction so the mods won't feel offended.
The website's color scheme is not good. It doesn't fit Era's theme and does the viewer no justice in terms of readability. Purple does not mesh well with yellow, and yellow is too visible and reaching to the human eye that it's a pain to see on a darker-colored background, especially when bordered around white. While the lot of you may be used to it, it's painful to see coming off a forum with an easier color scheme, even if it be rather simple like blue and white. Yellow and maroon does not look good, it's not functional, and it needs to go.
Organize your subforums. Every branch of a subforum does not need to be viewable to the reader; hide the sub-subforums so the sections look much cleaner to view; it's only one click away in terms of functionality and the ones that need to be hidden are rarely visited in the first place.
Change your header bars. The bars have terribly inverted gradients with the background, and these with a one-pixel border aren't appealing at all. It's a basic, default theme with VBulletin and it looks like no effort was put into it in the slightest. This isn't 2004, gradients do not look good anymore. Simple as that. Have a graphics site member design an actual background for the website as opposed to having a plain background so the site will actually have some flavor to it. It's bland, and it's boring.
There you have it. Fix it, and make these forums not an eyesore. See the example in the official Graal forums; they look ugly as hell. See the example in Graalians; strive towards that.