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You can be on both sites, i think you will be a great active member to our site you seem to have passion for oddworld. Am willing to listen to everyone and make changes to make it a better forum.
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Okay I'm in a helpful mood today, and I once started out with forums and websites just like that. So just in the remote case you're serious about wanting to learn about starting a successful forum let me give you some genuine tips.
1. Oh dear lord get rid of that background.
2. Oh dear lord get a decent header.
3. Your new forum has 25 different subforums holding 85 posts. This age old forum has been around for over 14 years, has over half a million posts and has never had more than 13 subforums. Keep it simple, stupid.
4. Get rid of the shoutbox, it defeats the entire purpose of a forum.
5. Aim for a solid niche. Oddworld isn't very big to begin with and you're aiming for something even smaller, beta's and prototypes which hardly even exist for Oddworld games and which even less people will probably have heard of.
5. Get your own domain and webhost, install a free software package like PHPBB or SMF and manage the entire thing yourself. If and when you get a solid memberbase, go for professional (paid) forum software.
The last one is probably most important. If you're not willing or able to manage your own stuff your website will never ever succeed or attract a membership. No-one (and I mean no-one) likes those free-to-set-up-subdomain websites.
Good luck on your ventures.