Need Your Help - Fitness.com redesign

Ride_On said:
I think that is all of them. They're pretty self explanatory by the titles though
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I see. So for example stroutman81 posted something in WLF under another name, he comes here and posts it under stroutman81 then goes to the others and posts under different names if he is to get the same message across?

There is a potential clash and overlap over weight loss, training, bodybuilding and sports; in each of those areas.
 
i was gone for this discussion, not that I would have spent alot of time in it anyways, but I think being able to give a person a rep for good or bad posts was a good thing.

Example: NLL running an hour at 13% incline = + rep, When Neon trains and completes her 5K plus rep. When Karky actually takes the time to read soemthing and share it with us = + rep :) ahhahahaa

anyhow-
just wated to say, I think the rep system was a nice element on the site.

FF
 
blackbeard said:
How many sub-sites are there and what is the purpose of them all. E.g.

- training.fitness.com
- sports.fitness.com
- weight-loss.fitness.com
- bodybuilding.fitness.com

Any more?
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realistically, that's not even close :) The purpose is to define them as completely separate sites, but keep them under fitness.com. The full list of subdomains is as follows:

- Fitness: Exercises, Fitness & Nutrition, and Fitness Articles (yes, for anyone that isn't internet savy, "www" is just a subdomain and isn't needed for most domains)
- training.
- weight-loss.
- bodybuilding.
- sports.
- blog.
- de. (German)
- es. (Spanish)
- fr. (French)
- it. (Italian)
- cn. (Mandarin)

In Development:
- tr. (Turkish)
- sv. (Swedish)
- ar. (Arabic)
- jp. (Japanese)
- pt. (Portuguese)
- ru. (Russian)
 
AllCdnBoy said:
one of our goals is going to be merge the usernames across all the forums. But, as stated in the original post, the idea is not so much on improving the forums, as the software for the forums is constantly upgrading itself, but is to get feedback on the main website (Fitness: Exercises, Fitness & Nutrition, and Fitness Articles).
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that will be great then I'll be here a whole lot more....get into it all baby!!

Hey the BB forum lets them have huge avatars...we got that here too?
 
Stop banning good people for no reason. Thats my idea of how you can improve this place.

Banning Chillen is retarded. Hes the nicest person on here.
 
we'll be taking a full review of this forum in the coming months and it may get a huge overhaul. I have neglected much of these forums for the last couple years as we've been pushing out other languages. Our focus has brought us in a full circle and we are back to English. In the end, it's me and the other owners that are to be blamed for the current condition of the forums. If you have any feedback regarding moderators or other stuff you'd rather remain private, please PM me.
 
For the main site, could you not try and get some pro sports people to write the odd article, like ' a day in the life off...' or an interview perhaps? Some young athletes or strongman competitors might be up for that as it'll get them a little exposure. Some of the older ones might as well if they have a book to promote too.

You can also get news tickers to run across the top of the site, has something similar and so does . Our one could be for fitness news. You could do these yourself or there are companies that provide a news stream for you, if you want to look into that then I have a contact for you

As for the forum, the content and people have been massively improved over the last month, the only thing I would want changed is the format.
We currently have areas like 'The F Lounge' and stuff which aren't very clear and descriptive, I was thinking it should have more of a fitness based theme like areas of a gym so the off-topic lounge could be 'The Locker Room', the nutrition area could be 'The Kitchen', the weights discussion could be 'The weights room' and cardio areas could be 'The studio'. Lots of possibilities there but I think it would make the layout more intuitive
 
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Typhon said:
As for the forum, the content and people have been massively improved over the last month, the only thing I would want changed is the format.
We currently have areas like 'The F Lounge' and stuff which aren't very clear and descriptive, I was thinking it should have more of a fitness based theme like areas of a gym so the off-topic lounge could be 'The Locker Room', the nutrition area could be 'The Kitchen', the weights discussion could be 'The weights room' and cardio areas could be 'The studio'. Lots of possibilities there but I think it would make the layout more intuitive
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We could have the sh**ter too!! ;)
 
do you make money on the pop-ups? You know where we drag over a word and the thing comes on. I have this new super sensitive mouse and thos things even move arround- it is like hunting.

you guys knwo me, I didnt read the whole thread, and this may have been mentiond- but those things make me nutty.

BUT- if they are what pays for the site, then all good there.

OH- and did I mention how much I like the ignore feature?

Thansk for the site whoever it is, I think it is CnD.

FF
Todd
 
Typhon said:
For the main site, could you not try and get some pro sports people to write the odd article, like ' a day in the life off...' or an interview perhaps? Some young athletes or strongman competitors might be up for that as it'll get them a little exposure. Some of the older ones might as well if they have a book to promote too.

You can also get news tickers to run across the top of the site, has something similar and so does . Our one could be for fitness news. You could do these yourself or there are companies that provide a news stream for you, if you want to look into that then I have a contact for you

As for the forum, the content and people have been massively improved over the last month, the only thing I would want changed is the format.
We currently have areas like 'The F Lounge' and stuff which aren't very clear and descriptive, I was thinking it should have more of a fitness based theme like areas of a gym so the off-topic lounge could be 'The Locker Room', the nutrition area could be 'The Kitchen', the weights discussion could be 'The weights room' and cardio areas could be 'The studio'. Lots of possibilities there but I think it would make the layout more intuitive
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i think renaming of the forums is a good idea. if you guys want to start a thread or just continue this one and agree on some forums to rename, I'd be happy to do it.

yea, i've tried looking into some of these news feeds and stuff, but their copyright is pretty strict on what we can publish. Mostly it's a one-line heading and a link to theirs site, which would be decent for a home-page module, but not very useful on a content level.

as for the ads, i thought i had is set so that only non-registered users would get those inline-text ads ... hmmm. Maybe I should make a new usergroup to hide all the ads ... $10 / one-time fee? What do you guys think?
 
AllCdnBoy said:
as for the ads, i thought i had is set so that only non-registered users would get those inline-text ads ... hmmm. Maybe I should make a new usergroup to hide all the ads ... $10 / one-time fee? What do you guys think?
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I'm a cheap SOB and I like the idea.

10 bucks for a one time fee and we get all this fun daily without popups :jumping:
 
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AllCdnBoy said:
i think renaming of the forums is a good idea. if you guys want to start a thread or just continue this one and agree on some forums to rename, I'd be happy to do it.

yea, i've tried looking into some of these news feeds and stuff, but their copyright is pretty strict on what we can publish. Mostly it's a one-line heading and a link to theirs site, which would be decent for a home-page module, but not very useful on a content level.

as for the ads, i thought i had is set so that only non-registered users would get those inline-text ads ... hmmm. Maybe I should make a new usergroup to hide all the ads ... $10 / one-time fee? What do you guys think?
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How about adding a club house for paid members as well. Where we can share more with each other and not have to worry about non-paying newbies and gusts reading semi-personal things that we would rather not share with them sometimes.

A member’s area that only registered members could see. Members get no popups and my idea of member access to the club house thread/s, that newbies and guests have no access to.
 
JohnnySolo said:
How about adding a club house for paid members as well. Where we can share more with each other and not have to worry about non-paying newbies and gusts reading semi-personal things that we would rather not share with them sometimes.

A member’s area that only registered members could see. Members get no popups and my idea of member access to the club house thread/s, that newbies and guests have no access to.
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not sure abotu this. I like the idea that a person can see our journals and interactions. I think we give the "public" a lot of value and there are a ton of closet benefactors ya know.

with an exclusive area i think we may all gravitate there

playing devil's advocate with ya johny
 
flyinfree said:
not sure abotu this. I like the idea that a person can see our journals and interactions. I think we give the "public" a lot of value and there are a ton of closet benefactors ya know.

with an exclusive area i think we may all gravitate there

playing devil's advocate with ya johny
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Typhon was thinking about an interview thread and was asking me if I’d like to participate. While I like the idea of members getting to know each other with a thread like that, I’m not a fan have having guests and non-invested member know that much about me. Call me paranoid.

What about letting members have an option to start a member’s only thread? Everyone’s default could be for a public setting but if Typhon wants to start an interview thread he could switch that thread to a member’s only thread, where only members could read it. This also might tease newbies enough to get on board and invest a little more into the sight.

Thoughts
 
the interview thread is already there. You shoudl check it out.

I like the idea of an option to start a members only thread. That may be cool.

I guess I dont really think much of the world knowing my business- IT's just the FF'in sissy public ya know!
haha
 
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