aight look this place could be good but my god is the formatting and design on this forum horrendous
and i mean, having been to numerous forums, this has got to be one of the worst. what a mess. sorry
tiny buttons. horrible font. huge images. garbage icons.... the only good thing is the b&w color scheme and maybe the smilies
look man you gotta focus on the content:screen ratio. if a single post takes up half my fucking screen it better be worthwhile. but it's not. your design is shit. also forums are good because they promote lengthy and in depth discussions (e.g. the "what is [subgenre]?" threads. i like them), so stop using this place mainly for small talk and posting threads with single links. go do that in the chat room.
also delete all the pointless fucking subtopics. they should exist out of necessity when the time comes. but you've only just started a forum you can't expect everyone to spread out their content across such a large variety of topics.
go scrap most/all of this design and start again. i mean at a glance this forum looks nice but within 2s you realise it's a mess. here's an example image of a forum i used to frequent which had a decent theme made entirely from scratch. i know it's not vaporwave but just to show you that this can all be done easily, just ask for lots of critique in chatrooms (or telegram)
