Good idea, see who we can get to make it more than just us two. Is CIS with us as well?
Yeah, I'm surprised as well with my logic here. But I realized these past couple weeks, as no one was on, that it had nothing to do with a cool design or layout that made this place great in the past or brought people in. It was the people themselves. As long as people like us are here, then we can draw people in eventually. I felt that the only way we could do that though, is to stop "hiding" behind the "material" stuff on this forum. If we focus on promoting our community instead of some other random website, then we could actually stand a chance at popping out and being unique. Hence, the simpler format. However, I'm going to need some help on an administrative level, and that's where I happen to have mutliple ideas.
First, and I've been meaning to do this for a LONG time, I want to make you ARC an admin. You've always stuck by this forum, even when it's been hardest to do it, and that's what I think HA originally intended for the type of character in the administrators of this forum. And to get more to the point, I'm going to need someone with some "power" to truly help get this place up and running. However, I really can't/shouldn't be creating a new administrative personnel without HA's authority, and that's where my 2nd idea can come in.
We need HA back on here ASAP. He's our best chance at getting some people over here. Not to mention, I could use his help on the actual design of this place. The current design I have is temporary, I needed to make things as simple as possible to catch peoples' attention, like yours and obviously CIS's. While, like I said above, I don't really care about the design of this place, I do have an idea that might encourage FB goers over here.
The very first design was an awesome FB/Forum hybrid (layout like a forum, colors like FB), and it seemed to go well with the SWU FB page. We need to "promote ourselves" like I said before by connections, and that's the best way to do it.
However, the catch to this idea of going completely nostalgic is the fact that I was not an admin when I first came on. I have no idea how to find the original design of this place, hence, why I'll need HA for that plan to work.
If I can get get just those three ideas to work (ARC an admin, HA to get on, original design), we can then brainstorm on what else we need to do for this place.
P.S. I also have to REALLY thank you CIS for letting ARC know what's going on here. We really need to get the word out to our older members like ARC has suggested, and you've done just that and already helped a lot in getting this ball rolling. The SWU Forums are indebted to you!