Well I have been here at astahost a while now, and after being a member of the forums, there just seems something about them that doesn't quite make them as enjoyable to be in.

To me it seems like the forums contain a lot of posts that are very repetative, even many topics that seem to repeat themselves... To me it seems like maybe there should be some more moderators, and the moderation should be stricter than it is.

I just don't find it as fun to participate in a community where a lot of the posts seem to be spamish...

Does anybody else feel this way?

Well if the moda pruned more spam topics there wouldnt much left at the moment.
I have been around for over a year and I have noticed the forums go downhill since then.At the moment I am even having a hard time staying hosted becuase of the lack of good posts to get involved in, if I make a new post just the same old faces reply or read it.The new members that have come here recently seem to post the bare minimum all the time to jsut about stay in positive for credits.
For me all the old faces are gone and there really doesnt seem to much new blood that is interested past getting the required credits to stay hosted.
I dont know if its becuase of the summer holidays taking effect but there hasnt been many hosting request these days also.
IF you look at turbos hosting script it shows about 35 sites active on here.
It used to be hundreds, now were down to about 50 people.
Myself I will probably switch my account to paid hosting at Computing Host in the next month orso, I am relying on my website here to bring me work, which it does ) and I should really payback the guys at Xisto and go paid hosting with them.

I have no idea what happened here, but the number of quality posts and visitors definitely seems to have diminished. I don't remember it being like this before in the past around the same time. There were actually interesting topics to participate in. Lately I come in here and have seen some topics that look familiar and don't have much to contribute to it either.

If we as Moderators, delete these similar topics, then we might as well deny them hosting because they won't earn the credits and probably will be penalized if we delete their posts.

I don't think we need more Moderators for this. Spamming is not high as it's usually reported quickly and a Moderator takes care of it from there. Having a forum with more Moderators doesn't necessarily mean more order...there are forums where the Moderators abuse their power

Moving to ComputingHost is a great idea. I have never really used astahost for my live work. I use it for production purposes and don't mind paying for better support and up-time. Been using ComputingHost for a while now and have no complaints

My post counts are slipping from my high of 45 days and I spend my time daily on this forum. This is my home for my forum traffic, aside from my own forum of course. Sadly, I don't have money to pay for hosting as I'm just a student who has spare time for an interest in building a website and maintaining it. I'd move to paid hosting if I had a choice.

xboxrulz

i can never find much to post in any more.

its really hard finding something relavent to what i want to post about these days.

Same here, sometimes I just look through topics and can't find one to post something more than three lines or if I do, I would repeat myself, as if we are out of words.. I also noticed some posts which isn't relevant from new users, some of them are even spammy, but if a moderator would be strict and would delete them, it would be hard to be accepted hosting from astahost, furthermore, if it is "hard" to post for old users, it is hard to post for newbies too, because of the lack of really good topics.

This is a troubling news...

I don't know the remedy for this one. What do you guys suggest AstaHost to revamp? Obviously, AstaHost needs revamping..but to which direction, more categories?

Please suggest how we can improve our forum. AstaHost is well known that professional topics are present. However this may have "scared" other potential forum members along the way. Instead of loosening up the forum rule, perhaps we can add more categories? I don't know.

maybe a new coolies design
lol
maybe not?

umm...

this is just something that i want:
a directory of web scripts, cms's, forums, poll scripts etc.
id like that but other people might not.

The new IP.Board version brings a better (or at least more professional) design, but it is hard to upgrade, since the credits script, as well as many other modifications need to be changed in order to work with the new version.

I personally would like the ability to very easily donate credits.
I know you can transfer credits to someone else, but you have to jump through a lot of hoops, and it's not integrated within the forum system.
Sometimes I have small graphics design type tasks I need to get done, and I would like to "outsource" this work to other forum members who have more graphics design experience, in exchange for ... oh, I don't know ... 10 or 20 days worth of AstaHost credits, as a "thank you" gift.
Otherwise it's a great forum.