A NFO file is equally responsible to pull the crowd as much as "aioforum.com" password will do... After all they will have to experience the ad twice...

Well, what I suggest is, take stringent measures on expanding the forum worldwide by offering Very good prizes. Infact, I've seen that "~~~Biggest Competition of All - Winner will get Apple Ipod 4GB NANO~~~" for a very long time... Why don't the admin clear it off by giving it away to somebody who deserves and announcing it in many ways in many places. Hold very frequent competitions like this...

The best suggestion is to make the website faster by either cutting down on the high graphical needs and signatures, OR, by moving website to a very fast server. I have also noticed that, one page worth weighs almost 100kB. Now, that is big for one page!

Also, the ads should be cut down seriously... A new guest would be frustrated by the way the ads frolick around...

I've many more to say, but, I don't have enough time...

-Aravind