I agree, it took 6 days before I was approved and able to post on the forum. And this reply right here will probably take a couple of days before showing on the forum. Most forums I go to are instant.Quote:
I do remember having some trouble signing up here. There were some technical issues with doing the actual sign up then having it approved took a couple of days. That really is a problem. Those folks I think with 0 posts had that problem, they signed up, then didn't get approved right away. Maybe for a while have automatic approvals so they can post instantly?
I do have some thoughts actually. One thing I noticed was in the email I was sent when registering. It said:Quote:
I would love for this forum to come back to life, but I'm not sure if anything can be done to make that happen. These things have a life of their own. If you have any thoughts I'd love to hear them.
Why limit the site like that? Why not open it up to a broader audience and include those that are looking for an age gap relationship also? After all, not everyone is currently in a relationship, although they might be interested in an age gap relationship. Maybe that's why a lot of people are going to social media sites like facebook instead. Actually the forum is already open to those people too since there are forum categories for singles with personal ads allowed, but they might not know that if you make it sound like the site isn't for them in the email when they register.Quote:
Thank you for registering at Ageless Love - Your community for age gap relationship support! Our forum is for age gap relationship support and is not for age gap dating. If you are looking for an age gap dating site, we recommend the following link:
http://www.AgeMatch.com/i/af6001241.
Take a look at this law of attraction community forum - Powerful Intentions: Law of Attraction Community - Powerful Intentions is a unique Law of Attraction Online Community. How the members can upload an image of themselves. Although it can be an image of anything. You can browse all the members pictures. And they can create their own profiles – tell a little about themselves. And in the center column of the homepage it shows the “main forum”. If you click “view all” it shows all the forum categories. Below that it shows pictures that people have uploaded. Below the pictures it shows the “latest activity” on the forums. At the bottom of the page you can see it says “sign in to chat”. When you login in you can open that chat window and see who's online and chat in real time with people if you wanted to.
I think that website theme is brilliant. Makes it easier for people to connect, get advice, or find like minded friends. Maybe changing this forum to something like that could help. I know this forum also allows pictures, has profiles, and groups, but it's harder to notice at first because it has a more boring layout. You can't see all those things visually from the homepage. And if you could it might feel more like a community than a forum. The Powerful Intentions forum was created with NING which I believe has a monthly fee to use, but Wordpress has a similar looking community theme called Buddy which might not have a monthly fee.
You could have some groups like:
younger men looking for older women
younger women looking for older men
younger men/older women relationships
younger women/older men relationships
And you could create more categories. Maybe try to come up with some that are more interesting or fun. There's this sexual forum that has a category called “Ask a guy/girl”. Which is a fun category. You could have categories like:
Ask a older woman
Ask and older man
Ask a younger woman
Ask a younger man
That's just some ideas I thought I'd share.