I would like to get the free games thing back up, and Adam + co. where are you guys?

I want Adam to post more god damn it.

I' m probably a fool for thinking this but there might be a chance that they' re spending their time on E3 related things right now...

hmm, I guess they will do the big video chowcase thing.

Well we' re back from E3 now but yes, things have been busy lately as always. No video blowout this year for a variety of reasons which I could detail in a separate post if anyone is interested.

I definitely appreciate the forum feedback. I think the best way to get more members in is for you guys to all leech your pals away from other forums and tell them to join here where it' s nicer! If you do this with two gamer friends each we triple the forum use. There is very little crossover here from viewers on the main site which has enormously more traffic than the forum.

I would also like to hear anyone' s views on how the main Kikizo site could be improved. Any views at all. As we are always considering how to improve, whether it' s small changes or drastic ones. There are always other considerations to any changes of course that might not be obvious at first! But please go ahead with your opinions, we' ll be listening...

Perhaps a larger, more prominent link to the forums. I actually don' t see the link at all when I log on, I have to pan over to the right. If you' re looking for more traffic to the forums then it' d make sense to make ' em a little more available to those who don' t know they exist.

If you want to improve traffic to the forums there' s a few things you could try:

1.Increase size (and maybe even move) of the forum button. Personally, I like it where it is because I' m used to it. However, the fact remains that many people probably wouldn' t notice it unless they were looking for it. It' s just tiny and obscure at the end the strip.

2. Put a larger link, " discuss in forums" under each video/article.

3. Become affiliates to other gaming sites. They display a link to Kikizo while you display a link to their site. This isn' t specific to the forums but it can' t hurt.

4. You could have quotes of forum members taken directly from the forum chosen by Kikizo staff. Then placing these quotes in (subject matter relevant) high traffic areas. These quotes being links to the actual post where the quote is taken from.



General improvements to the site and forum (in no particular order) :

1. Let us upload our own avatars...please.

2. Get rid of the clutter on the main page. I don' t see the point in repeating links when you can simply make a link larger instead. The entire left column except the E3 stuff seems like fluff. I would get rid of all the repeat links on the main page. Getting rid of the redundant text would do a lot for ambiance.

3. Wider and shorter. No one wants to scoll too much on the main page.

4. I think the forum needs a better search engine. We basically can' t find anything old in the forum except by reading everything page by page.

5. Consider placing more older content from the main pages in archive. In the main Page for example there' s currently a news headline about a Gears of War Bundle for Christmas (that doesn' t need to be on the front page anymore). There are too many headlines and links, it' s sensory overload.

In short, the site looks too much like a news paper rather than an entertainment site.

6.EDIT: FIX THE BUGS! The one that I' m sure pisses us off the most in the forums is the one that loses our post and gives us some shit about " invalid subject title" . It seems to happen when we take a while to type and post a comment. It seems to only happen when we least expect it. Even if we have a stroke of pure genius and type a post inspired of absolute clarity that only occures once in a person' s lifetime the bug won' t give a shit and will send your post into the abyss of nothingness. Thank the 1' s an 0' s for " copy paste" , which I will use again before pressing OK. .


Not that I' m complaining...I love the site. Keep on Keeping on.

Fix the link in the top games row. Final Fantasy X should be finally changed to XII.

I think you should separate reviews, previews, news, videos, screenshots and interviews into separate columns, side by side. That way it' s easier to find what you' re looking for without having to search or scroll down.

Slightly wider area for the text and stuff. I guess you' re saving the space in the sides for ads but maybe you could make it a little smaller.
You could remove the entire column to the right (with all the latest blablabla).

A super big forum button, on the top of the page.

That' s it for now.

We could ask ourselves how we got here first...

I got here the first time by accidentally clicking the forum button

I personally prefer web site layouts that are not at a set width and expand to fill your whole screen. But I know you said earlier you like the newspaper column style. Perhaps the forums don' t need to be at a set width though.

I got here by clicking on the " post in the forums, get a free game!" ad off of the Killzone 2 E305 trailer on Wikipedia.

Oh I would like to add one more thing. The buttons don' t work as they should. It' s very impractical to have to press the button before we know what to type, and type or paste whatever we want to B,I,,U or quote etc...

In every other forum I' ve seen you can simply highlight what you want to apply an action to and then press the button to modify the text.

At the very least we should be able to apply the button code wherever the cursor is instead of at the end of our post.

In Firefox yeah. It works just fine if you use Internet Exploder. I highlighted this entire sentence and hit bold. There' s a reason I only post here on IE.

It doesn' t work in my IE. I have IE 7.0
It stopped working the same day I updated to 7.0. Could that be the problem perhaps?

It doesn' t work in my IE. I have IE 7.0
It stopped working the same day I updated to 7.0. Could that be the problem perhaps?

Ah that' s it. Danm you Eddie and your legacy software holding the world back.

Yeah, but at the end of the day...



mine works.

Woah, nice one Silent. You got this thing stickied.

I didnt even notice untill you told me..

I am that busy.

We know you' ve been sitting at your PC hitting F5 for the past week & a half.