I find that I can only post basic emoji (smiley faces) on here. Is it something on my end? Will we be able to used an emoji keyboard from our mobile phones to post?

It's on the list for me to figure out at some point. Apparently the webserver doesn't support the characterset with mobile emojis. Regardless, I'll figure it out at some point, but for now it's a bit down on the nice-to-have list as I still focus on basic site-wide functionality for the biggest possible userbase, such as academies, events, etc.

Sick website, and I love the idea of the beltchecker ID card.

It's coming! Just waiting for FedEx to delivery my sample :)

How about a 'Lineage' feature? Yes - the profiles list 'Coaches' - but I think it would be cool to have a feature that connects ALL the dotts - so coaches and coaches of those coaches all the way to the 'Roots'... Since there are some Profils with people Training in 3rd, 4th or 5th 'Generation', I think it would be nice to see how the art spread from whom to whom. Also, beeing able to provide a lineage will help with the question of legitimation… Its hard to judge f someone was promoted by Professor 'Bob' - who does not have a profile - but if the Lineage is Listet as: Mitsuyo Maeda > Carlos Gracie Sr. > Carlos Gracie Junior > Renzo Gracie > Professor 'Max' > Professor 'Bob' It would make things even more transparent. This way it should be possible to automatically create Family trees beginning with maybe Maeda (or the various Japanese immigrants who started JJ Lineages in Brazil) through the Gracie or Fadda Line to yourself.

We will build coach/student visualization once we have a bigger user base and I find time for it. Much more interesting and reliable than people manually writing lineage with all the possible spelling errors etc.

Still.. this can go only as far as there are registered profiles, and most lineages are bound to run to a missing link really soon. For example, I think there is a very low probability of dead people ever registering to the site. I agree it would be cool to somehow see how all go back to the originators...

Too much unverified data to build anything serious if we tried to include dead people :)

Didn't mean they would have profiles as such, but that the names would work as certain kind of link, where you can trace the direct students who are here, or have in your own lineage visualization, or something.... :D But yeah, that is probably tricky to verify.

Anyway to make it so when someone selects eg. Brown belt and does not complete previous ranks (white-purple) the ability to receive votes gets disabled until it is completed? Maybe I am not wording it right but I think you get the idea. It would eliminate some issues.

Already commented on this a few times; it gets too complicated to determine automatically, since there can be situations where people legitimately skip belts. Especially when it comes to the transition between kids' and adults' belts.

Oh ok sorry

Could we maybe have custom regional forums where someone is assigned as admin and then invites others in? My own area (Southwest Florida) encompasses a number of different cities, so it would be cool to target all of those individuals to be members of a single forum for our part of the state. I'm already doing this on Facebook with a group page dedicated to recruiting people from our area to Belt Checker, but having our own forum here would be cool too. https://www.facebook.com/[...]908207767/

Has anyone suggested a survey/polling feature for forum posts? That would be cool.

A 'preview' option on posts would be handy. That way I don't have to edit it a dozen times. Apologies if this has already been suggested. I just briefly skimmed the thread.

Different languages. Some people do not speak english :) So far. Realy great site! Oss!

Why don’t you just look at the text you’ve written before you post it? :)