Ok. I’ve worked out my biggest issue with the update is that all of the old posts ported over have lost the ‘quote’ rendering them almost impossible to follow. Posts on the new thread make a bit more sense, but to value of the site (at present) is the historic archive. Trying to follow the hookless discussion, or any other where there was back and forth discussion with not being able to attribute who was replying to who and what was a quote vs a fresh statement is a real issue.
There was another forum I used to frequent and occasionally still do where there was a “political playground” section. Based on the forum content and # of threads in the various sections/catgories, I thought it worked well.
It wouldn’t make sense to make separate categories for sports, finance, etc as there just isn’t enough posting in the LR to justify that. But lump them together in an “off topic” category and it makes a little more sense.
There’s zero politics in the triathlon forum. It would be nice to have non triathlon discussion without seeing trump, Biden, kamala in 75% of thread titles.
There is a “tag” capability now, and users can configure a set of tags they want to mute/hide. Perhaps tag certain threads as politics, spoilers, etc so that they can be optionally hidden. I’m not sure who has the capability to add tags, i.e. if it has to be OP or if the tagging can be crowdsourced.
Also it seem the image used here was pulled from my facebook profile perhaps based on me using the profile to reply to a front page article. I don’t have an issue with that but for those wondering it looks like you can change the image from your “preferences” and upload something else (or I assume nothing at all if someone wants that). I personally like how it is done on LinkedIN. It can get heated over there too, but when people can identify each other it tends to keep things along the lines of “what you would say in a public square”.
Thanks, that makes the most sense that one of the 4 pics in the old account may have been used. I’ll go change it (it has me and Jonathan Toker from Salt Stick riding on Mauna Kea so not fair to Jonathan).
Good work on affectng this transition. I think we’re all a bit disoriented until we’re not. It feels like being taken from NYC to Tokyo and trying to figure out how to use a different subway system…eventually you become “expert”
I think one of the best changes to the look and feel of the new site is that I feel like everyone has a face and a person. Old format was just walls of text and disconnected me from seeing different individuals vs “slow twitch says…”
0% of anything was pulled from another platform. We have simply never had “Plugins” that ever connect in that manner. If something is showing up in your profile it’s becuase you placed it in your profile at somepoint.
I was just searching on the internet for how much it costs for me to fly with my bike on Air France from North America. The fourth link was an old ST thread, but when I clicked on it, I came to home page of new site with “oops not found”.
My guess is that there is a lot of old content out there, that may not be accessible. I hope there is a way to connect all that, as that knowledge base from the past is a huge asset for you guys!!!
