How do you feel the homage of any forum should be? Very simple, or going all out?

I think that the homepage design of a forum needs to be simple and not overwhelming. Too much put into it can turn people away who are looking for a good forum to join. There are forums that I've seen where the homepage has a lot of going on. It's a big turn off to many people, myself included. Any forum project that I was asked to be a part of as an Administrator, Moderator, or Package Team Member always had an easy to to use homepage. Everything else on those forums were simple an easy to navigate as well. All my forums, which were on free forum services like Forum Promotion once was, were very easy on the eyes and welcoming to all. If members had any feedback to give, it wasn't about changing that.

I think that the homepage of a forum should look quite professional. It should be quite attractivem it should give a message to every visitor that should induce them to join and participate. Your homepage should also be related to the jixhe if your forum. This is one of the most important things out there. The forum itself should have a really fancy and attractive theme and design. These things are crucial for any kind of forum nowadays.

Keep it simple and straightforward—at least that’s how I think it should be. You can save the more complex options for after the user registers; if they log in and see too many choices, they won't know what to do.

It needs to give guests a sense of whats going on. I show all latest achievement pulls so people know what we do and get that “I want my data pulled too”

Sometimes just stand forums don’t attract people enough

The homepage of a forum should have a running slide. This really catches the attention of many people who visit the forum. Apart from that, the homepage of the forum should display current activities going on in the forum. This helps members to participate in online discussions. This also keeps the forum active as well. Apart from that, the homepage should also have a search bar and alerts page.