I prefer transparent policy rather than depending on personalities. But as I just posted, I give ST a pass since it’s probably like 2 guys in a Starbucks with a laptop trying to fix the login issue, etc. 
And your responsibility and maturity with how you interact with the internet is duly noted. Keep it up!
Is there an eta to all of the login issues?
It’s what @Lagoon said though. There’s no such thing as “delete” on the internet. There’s only ever I “I changed my mind about what I was going to say” functionality which they erroneously called “delete”. (By the way, on Trainerroad forums, which use the same engine, it’s called “hide post” I think.)
what i just realised i am going to miss the polls
i almost always clicked on the choice i knew dan would hate the most to balance out his bias a bit .
i was the 19 mm tubular 150 psi guy vs dan s 32 mm hookless 25 psi . i guess i have to grow up a bit now …
I hope the polls don’t go away. He can just make a thread/poll and sticky it to the top of the page for however long.
The ad is SO BIG (relative to everything else)! @SlowtwitchSupport could you look at ways to make it less intrusive? I only see three topics on first loading the page now.
Please don’t be stubborn, this new format is going to kill the forum!
Posts are already noticeably down, once the avalanche starts it’s hard to turn it around…i used to check in over 10 times a day, now it’s down to about 3 and there is no new content… More and more will be inclined to not check in at all. Bring back the old format!!!
What makes you think it’s the format? Maybe it’s cause there hasn’t been any major races recently. Or major product releases.
Nice and Kona are right around the corner. Content will be high as we get closer to those races.
This is the platform that will power the forum.
We still have plenty of tweaking to do to customize it more to suit our collective preferences and expectations.
But we needed to move to a modern architecture.
I like the black screen! If i can get out of my stoopid way maybe i too can have that!
I found the preferences functions, the darker screen is much less of an assault to my eyes… i wonder if a colour scheme like the old format could be added to the possibilities ?
Can I just say that if the format of a forum is enough to make you question your participation to a community maybe you don’t actually care that much about the community.
Discourse is a very popular forum platform. It works for many forums. It’s perfectly reasonable for Slowtwitch to have moved to Discourse.
In fact, the old system was very confusing even to people used to forums. The weird “reply to” functionality, the complexity of using markdown/uploads, the suboptimal UX, especially from mobile, the list goes on.
The only major issue I’ve found so far is that all past links are broken with a generic redirect. That impacts Google search, bookmarks, chrome auto complete, etc. I’m surprised this couldn’t be fixed at scale.
If you are actually looking for feedback you should learn to write a better question.
I do agree with you that when people find that it’s too difficult to do things or find things broken, they’ll stop participating altogether since it’ll no longer be fun.
Ditto. On my iPad, this monster ad pushes all the threads below the fold. The only two visible threads are the two stickys.
i’d like that too - that old light blue feels like…home.
I don’t think it’s that simple. Emails are dangerous because recipients have completely independent copies.
And nothing is immune from things like screenshotting (like some of Elon Musk’s quickly-deleted white nationalist-type posts recently).
And things like court orders or hacking can expose things intended to be private (Ashley Madison, etc).
But nevertheless if you delete your FB or X account, your posts are wiped from their database. Not just your original posts but, re-tweets, etc. Though often replies to your posts remain, so some chance history remains of whatever it is you wanted gone. Nevertheless it’s, IMO, far, far, more than “nothing.” A lot of stuff goes away. And unless the posts were intentionally made public in some way, they are not cached in search indexing or the Internet Archive.
It’s a valuable thing, I believe, to be able to have social media sites delete your content from databases. As long as the expectations of what that means are sound.
It’s a reasonable expectation of government regulation and a “best practice” for social media providers. I’m glad that ST does it for this forum, even though it’s apparently by request instead of user-initiated.
I hear that you needed to go a new platform, but I really liked the density of the older forum.
The older forum on my PC you could see 19 topics while the new on you can only see half that.
Your new format is not intuitive at all. (I’m a business analyst)
Not sure if I’m replying to the correct post since the “reply” button doesn’t seem to work as expected. BUT, the density/clarity difference between the new and old forum is by far my biggest gripe. The old forum had a lot of information, tightly packed and it was easy to skim to find the threads I was interested in. The new forum is so spaced out it just feels like another social media platform; it’s “pretty” but not as efficient as the old.
