I’ve discussed this in several other threads over the last few months, usually in similar circumstances when an unrelated thread was moved out of this coaching section and into the correct section, but there is no “Darden forum” anymore.
There’s the T Nation forum, and Dr. Darden’s coaching section has become one part of it… to have a Q&A area with Dr. Darden.
The guys who’ve migrated from the old site are doing yourself a giant disservice by trying to remain insulated from the rest of the community. It’s gotten so bad that a few members would rather not talk about training at all if they can’t have the same old insular group they’re used to. Talk about cutting off your nose to spite your face?!
You guys want to talk about your experiences with HIT? No prob. You want to talk about Mike Petrella recently trying to re-create the Colorado Experiment? No prob. You want to talk about any random non-training subject? No prob. But those threads don’t belong in this Coaching section.
As another quick example, how many times on “the old site” did you wish people would post some kind of progress pic to show they do more than just flap gums online?
We’ve had a regularly recurring Photo Check-In thread here, twice a year for the last 9 years, for that exact reason. And I was disappointed, but not totally surprised, that not a single member from the Darden site participated in it: Feb '21 Photo/Video Check-In
I get that change is tough, but this is the way things are (and have been for the last six months). You still have every opportunity to have threads talking about whatever, but it’s up to the members to actually participate in them. There’s certainly nothing wrong with choosing to only visit Dr. Darden’s Coaching forum. That’s entirely your decision. But that decision forfeits the right to complain about missing out on other conversations happening elsewhere on the site.