# Improving discovery of the badge title feature

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-the-badge-title-feature/27372>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [Abril 9, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-the-badge-title-feature/27372 "2015-04-09T08:57:09Z")\
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**Author:** ![erlend\_sh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/erlend_sh/32/119475_2.png) [@erlend\_sh](https://meta.discourse.org/u/erlend_sh)\
**Post date:** [Abril 9, 2015, 8:57am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-discovery-of-the-badge-title-feature/27372/1 "2015-04-09T08:57:09Z")

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I’d like to suggest some simple UX changes to increase the discoverability of badge titles.

Badges used to be a big deal on my old forum. Users would be proud of their newly earned “Contributor” badge, and would sometimes congratulate one another at the sight of it. After migrating to Discourse I re-granted the “Contributor” title to all of our existing contributors. However, hardly any of them seem to have picked up on the fact that they can use it as a title for an extra piece of flair.

I’d like to suggest two simple UX tweaks that I believe could result in a significant uptake in the use of badge titles.

First, I’d like to add an extra snippet of text underneath badges that have this special property. The `title `hyperlink at the end would be the same as the main link; it’s just there to draw the eye to something a little out of the ordinary.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/d/6d98362529615fcf13880a5346ef43e150998c89.jpg) 

(No, Read Guidelines can’t actually be used as a title)

Second, it should be possible to start using the title via the badge page itself, because that’s where the link takes you.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/b/2/b253ec5b9ea69671270db1db6ef68cabd8f788f5.jpg) 

There’s been some talk about overhauling the badges interface, but until that’s on the agenda I think this would go a long way.

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