Forum Suggestions & User Assistance - Directory structure is too confusing

It takes far to long to figure out the forums directory structure. Most assume

BikeForums and
BikeForums/BikeForums

are the same and never see the other potential interest areas.

A simple change to something like this would be easier for everyone to follow:

BikeForums
BikeForums/RidingForums

Then when you are in BikeForums you know you are in the correct folder and not in the alternative
folder with the exact same name.

Come again?

I don't quite know what you are talking about. Maybe its a computer thing that is out of my reach but it still don't make sense.

See footsteps at top of the page.

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Directory structure is too confusing

Default is
Bike Forums

Commuting is
Bike Forums > Bike Forums
Commuting

Sample thread is
Bike Forums > Bike Forums > Commuting
Rack Question

So say I am looking at a thread in commuting/advocacy/general etc. There are 2 different
"Bike Forum" directory links at the top of the page. One goes to the parent of all forums, the second only goes to the parent of the commuting subforum.

Bad practice to have 2 forum locations with the same name.

I don't know how to make it more clear, simply stated the hot links in the footsteps should have different names. Either make the names different, or make both links go to the same place. It is much easier to rename than to have all clicking on bread crumb links go to a new location.

Forum trees NEVER seen if click on second "bike forum" hot link

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Great suggestion, I'll make a few changes to fix this soon. :)

Oooh yeah when I first used those I was always clicking the 2nd one and was like "hey wheres Foo n all"

Thanks Joe.

give me a break..

I noticed this as well along time ago...it takes about 3 seconds to figure out what they mean. an untrained ape could figure out bikeforums directorys.

I'm confused by your confusion.

While a little confusing - and something I'm sure Joe can come up with a creative solution for - personally I don't see a huge issue with it. Figuring out the structure here is a ton easier than those 'other' cycling forums. ;) Maybe that's why I spend 99.9% of my time here.