How do you know when to give up?
vaksel: if that noobindex is your site, then you should spend a few weeks and do a complete redesign. Right now(no offense) it looks like crap. You have to play to your audience. Simplicity works on HN, because the site is only text and you get the full experience anyways.But for a gaming site to be simple is just wrong...look at your competition, all of them have extremely visually appealing designs. So why would a person register for something that looks like crap(pink background..really?)  when they can register for a site that looks good.If you suck at visual design hire a designer to build you something that is visually appealing. Probably will run you something like 500 bucks on one of those freelancer sites.