So you may have seen the title and thought this was another one of those megathreads that you have to post in if you have this particular type of suggestion, but it's not! It's really just a little poke from us forum mods to motivate players to think about the forums and how we can make them more approachable and welcoming to the community. If you have a forum-related suggestion, you can either post it here or make a separate thread for it, whichever you prefer!

To kick this off, I have a few suggestions from our community, plus Jelly and I...

Implemented!

Newbie Giveaway Section
Fairly self-explanatory! Giveaway threads tend to get buried in the Dealers Den.

Clubs and Societies
Creating a space where members with similar interests can meet, discuss, and form communities.

Polls
A lot of forums allow users to make polls, and I think they'd be both helpful for feedback purposes, and fun for conversation purposes. Maybe this goes without saying, but preferably only logged-in users would be able to vote in polls. I understand that one of the biggest cons of polls is that they encourage a lack of discussion, since you can just click a choice and be done with it. My proposal for fixing this, particularly for important polls, is to introduce a rule that all voters must leave a reply stating their reasoning for their vote, otherwise their vote won't be counted. Of course this rule doesn't have to be used for every poll; it's up to the poll owner, but it's a possible solution.

Here's an idea I came up with recently while designing my userpage, a choice of fonts! Proboards has a small list of pre-picked fonts to choose from, and it really makes a difference!

@SeahorseySauce We do indeed have a forum games section already! It's been around since the game first opened. You can find it here!

Since this thread has recently been revived, I would love to see justified text added to the custom bbcode. Left align is just so ugly to me when I'm trying to write descriptions or big blocks of text. It'd be nice for pet bios, too.

I also have an idea! I think a forum search option would be pretty useful. Something to allow you to put in the search bar keywords/titles/subjects and then pull up posts or threads with whatever you wrote. It'll probably be pretty needed once the community grows or becomes very active on the forums.

I think regular (and casual) forum events in the Events forum or the Contest forum would help. Maybe something for a PixPet equivalent of Halloween (or Fall) or New Years. It could be a simple event with rewards like a random color capsule or a pixpet/pixpal egg



There's this thread if you want to check it out