by karkooshy April 13th 2011, 10:57 am
The Fused Ones wrote:Probably not. Forumotion isn't magic. Hosting your own site, however...you can do pretty much anything with that. But sadly, we lack the required monies (and likely the technical skill) to do that.
That's not entirely true.
You can do anything with forumotion, its just that it takes more effort to build stuff since you'd have to do it all from scratch.
I would recommend against the idea of a name change as well, seeing as how the site is old. Members and guests get attached to it.
What my recommendations are:
1. Change the arcade into a forum and only allow staff members to post new topics... so you can include the game in the post and users can comment on the game and share and compete against each others' scores.
2. More contests. I would start off with something big that everyone can take part it in. Like a quiz hosted on the chatbox about Sonic, Sega, gaming or TSC history in general.
3. Blog. I've suggested this before
... have a forum where a specific group can write official, quality articles. Articles about gaming and specifically Sonic. You can then tweet about such articles, you get guests, and guests are potential members. If possible, I would also allow guests to be able to comment in the blog.
Articles can range from trailers of new games, to console specs, to game reviews.
There are endless possibilities :D
4. More skins xP