not many viewable hacks on but there are a few

Nice clean style. A lot of the forums are private, this might put off some users from joining!!Also wont help the search engines index your site.Google et al see what unregistered users see...

so what wud you sugest, im new to all this and still learning and thank-you for your comments

Make your forums open to all, the more pages there are to be indexed the more pages google will index. The more pages google index the more members you get

well i have opened a couple and thanx for your help