How Can Black Belt Forums Be Improved?

Black Belt Forums is officially two weeks old today

I've been incredibly pleased with the way things have progressed so far. We have a fantastic group of people chatting here every day already and some of the discussions so far have been fantastic.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on our community and hear suggestions as to how Black Belt Forums could be improved. It doesn't have to be a big thing. Sometimes a small change to a forum can it make it a more enjoyable and/or user friendly place to hang out.

So if you have some time, please leave a suggestion as to how you things could be improved here or what changes you would like to see here

Thanks,
Kevin

 

I've been thinking of perhaps adding a links section or a directory of some kind. I'll look into it as it's something that people could find useful. Though, it takes a while for a directory of that kind to be established and thus prove useful to people.

haha thanks. An instructors room is a good idea. There are a few instructors here already so I think it could be a great addition. I've added both room suggestions to the forum suggestion list for the moment

 

I think a general training gear section would be a good additionl. I'll add it to the forum suggestion list

 

I think the General Chat room covers that though. Creating a 'Just for Laughs' section would mean there were two places for off topic chat.

I'm hoping to actually reduce the number of rooms here as most aren't used. At the very least re-organise everything on the home page so that it's easier to navigate to the main discussion rooms.

 

The general martial arts room can be used for most things. Alternatively, we could create a general room for striking, grappling etc and make all the other forums sub rooms (i.e. put less emphasis on them). That's one thing we could do.

I'd prefer the forum list on the home page to be much smaller so that it was easier to browse. Most of the rooms aren't being used much anyway.

 

If anything, it would improve SEO as the home page would have less text.

 

I have changed things around a little. Each main category is now a discussion room. Previously, there were several rooms for striking arts. These still remain however you can also post in the parent room too for general striking related discussions.

Check out to the home page to let me know what you think.

 

Are you referring to this thread: https://www.blackbeltforums.com/threads/two-styles.1229/

Also, if there is enough demand for it, I can add a discussion room specifically for Tang So Doo members.

 

MattCMMA has been posting some great instructionals which made me think it would be a good idea to have an Instructionals section that when you click on it is then broken down into more specific fighting styles. That way no one would have to sift through all the threads in a section to find these little gems.