What I like most about the forum is that it shows how supremely easy it is to make a forum that’s far more visually attractive than KTS. KTS is just about the ugliest forum UI I’ve ever seen. Tyrannus, who I’d guess knows next to nothing about html/css, made this forum probably in less than an hour and it blows KTS out of the water in terms of being pleasing to look at.
Looks interesting, but I would find it hard to look at for any length of time. I’d go for the colour of paperbacks if it were me. Remembering that screens are glossy and so you need to make that background colour duller for contrast. The text needs to be charcoal or black. Various shades of grey or very faded/greyed colour will possibly make the frames give the forum a more sophisticated look.
Just an opinion.
Oh and you might scare all the hermits away with talk of real meet-ups.
The activist section I devised so that there can be brotherhood and fraternity activities offline. I’m trying to create a revolutionary type of environment.