Introducing the AfterPad Forums

After almost a month of work, I’m happy to take the wraps off my latest project: the AfterPad Forums!

These forums, currently in beta, are designed from the ground up to be fast, stable, and fully mobile-first. The entire design has been custom built by hand, and works perfectly on iPhone and iPad, with generous touch targets and responsive buttons.

Things are very much a work in progress right now, but the basics are all in place, with full profile customization, posting with bbcode, avatars, signatures, ranks – all the fun stuff you’d want to see on a discussion board.

If these forums end up being something people like, expect to see them expanded and integrated into the site even further – game discussion threads can be linked to directly from the MFi game list, particularly high-quality posts can be posted directly to the AfterPad homepage – the sky’s the limit.

I wanted to build a place for people to ask questions, recommend games, share thoughts about the latest Apple gaming developments. Currently, the only way to do this type of thing on AfterPad was through the Disqus comment system, and for many reasons, that is just not a great solution.

Ideally, I’d like to see the AfterPad forums turn into a nice, tight-knit community of iOS gamers who share an interest in premium gaming experiences. If that sounds like something you want to be a part of, head on over to the forums and start contributing today – it can’t happen without you!