Just a small rant here, so bear with me. (This isn't necessarily aimed at lthiele, either)
I fail to understand why people continue to post their sites 5 minutes after they created the account with Invisionfree or installed the forum software. It's like posting a picture of 3 bricks and saying "this will be my new house". Fair enough if you've just spent a while coding, designing and whatnot, but I hardly think the effort needed to click "create a free forum now" demands a post and link in here when it's done for the 12th time this year.
To my knowledge, this thread is for asking for critique on design, layout, name, coding, and to show off your work. There's just nothing to give critique on when it's an empty shell with the same design you've seen dozens of times before. Nor is there any thing to show off.
Nor do I understand why every little minor update has to be posted in here. "Well, yesterday someone posted an image of their cat which caused minor discussion in one of the forums". Congratulations, you must be very proud. Now you've got some discussion going, how about not creating another forum with a slightly different name and going through the same process again? If you really can't help it, go make yourself a blog and write it in there.
It's great that you've made your own site, it really is. I've got no problems with any of you making a new one every time it rains. Why? It doesn't interest me. I just ignore the links in your signatures and MSN names like most people ignore mine. I just get a little annoyed when serial forum makers jump into the thread right in front of the person who made something interesting that took them a lot of effort to produce. I'll bet money on the fact that the next well made, interesting site that gets posted will be followed after about 2 days by a mass free forum maker advertising some drivel they "co-produced" with someone they met at the bus stop yesterday. I understand a lot of you are proud of what you've produced, but maybe you should go and show it off on the sites where they're hosted. I seem to remember Invisionfree has a show-off/critique area. When nobody replies positively to any of the dozens of posts you've made in here, it's a hint that maybe it's a good idea to find somewhere else to advertise.
I'll just point out that I have nothing against free forums or websites either. Everyone has to start somewhere. They just don't have to start again. And then again. And then again. And then again...
Apologies for the minor interruption, I just felt my opinion needed expressing.
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