DSMCentral Improvement request Options

[awd4kicks]

Hey everbody.

I've been pretty wrapped up trying to get my car running over the past few months along with the required family stuff. So I haven't had much time to concentrate on DSMCentral.

I really appreciate having you all on here and I definitely dig having the group together for outings and what not. With that in mind I would like to hear any and all suggestions that you may have to make this a better forum and event creation spot.

We often have very few people with running DSM's at any given time. That along with real-world duties, makes it tough to get large gatherings together. That's ok though. I'm happy to hang out with a few good pals that like to talk car junk every once in a while.

So let me hear what if any improvements that you would like to see. Maybe it's additional forums, maybe it's a different look, or going ahead with the DSMCentral garage, or stickers, or what ever. After we get a number of reply's we will post them up as a poll and make some changes based on the recommended improvements with the most votes.

Thanks for your input and invovlement. I think we should get somethings going so we can stay active before and during the cold months.

Marcus

[awd4kicks]

Cool! I'm glad so many are responding to this thread... It's good.

The tally for site improvement ideas so far is:

Add a button to buy DSMCentral stickers with (Working on it now)
Offer up additional skins for members to personalize their DSMCentral
Fix the 'go to first unread thread' button
Create a DSMCentral IM Service
Incorporate a spell checker (God knows I could use that!)
Review the Exchange site separate from DSMCentral
Add a General Talk section to the forums

And above all else get more events held by our members and attended by our members (That's easy... You all just need to post up your gig and everyone needs to make a good effort at making a showing! )

We are also in the process of updating the Adds that show in the upper right hand corner. CREBOtech is no more, KOU is defunct as far as I know and their paid subscription is up, and I need to check if Precission wants to update (Mitsu77?)

All good ideas so far. Keeping in mind that we have always built this site with free IT service, we may be only able to do some of these, but we will try to do as many as are physically and financially possible.

Pop-in with any other suggestions you may have. We don't have to stop there on the brainstorming.