In case this helps anybody: If you bookmark https://forum.slowtwitch.com/latest you can see all recent posts from every category (except the ones you’ve muted) in one page, so at least you don’t need to browse a bunch of disparate categories.
As Eric said, the site is called slowtwitch for a reason (as in slow twitch muscle fiber that operates on oxygen). It was intentionally named that way by Dan Empfield to pull in endurance athletes of all types not only triathletes. The main group may have come from triathlon, and by definition Eric is saying that triathlon is a subset of endurance…long duration anything is slowtwitch.
My suggesting to Eric, call what is “triathlon forum”, “main endurance forum” or “multisport forum” (altthough I can live with triathlon forum…I have done some triathlons that are speedskate, xc ski, snowshoes, or showshoe, ski, skate etc.
…and please to all, can you just use the quote bubble in the top left and this way it is easy to see who we are responding to. Feel free to delete nested quotations if you find that too hard to read"
Generally I found that if you quote the last poster, it is enough to figure out the conversation (at least get the main themes of the directions it is going). We can complain all we want or we can take the matter into our own hands and quote the last person we are responding to. That would help everyone.
Dev
No you’re not… 
Also a color (pink, let’s say) that looks good on one person’s screen in Dark Mode, might not work so well for someone using a different color scheme
What do you have against pink?
The best day ever was when the forum background got turned pink for my birthday one year.
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Nothing at all - I was a frequent user when we had that ability
Hey, I asked you all to use the quote feature although I can tell who you are replying too via context in this case !!! Let’s use the quote feature since collectively we seems to say we can’t follow conversations and collectively we are not using the feature !!!
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/pink
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I am disinclined to acquiesce to your request.
- captain Barbosa.
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I would like a prompt that asks “Are you SURE you want to post to this thread? There hasn’t been a response to this thread in X years” to people about to respond to a threads older than like 2yrs old. Maybe ask twice when the thread is more than 10 years old.
Does it matter if a thread is 1, 2, 10, 20 years old? Often it is interesting to see the historical banter
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If they are asking a question to the forum but adding it to the old thread to keep the discussion going, then I have no problem. When they are answering a specific question about something that happened 10 years ago, then it’s a bit much…and I was somewhat joking when I posted that. It doesn’t really matter but sometimes it’s a bit odd how certain topics randomly pop up.
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Small things that matter . . .
I’m liking that this new interface allows one to read a thread and after scrolling down and reading the last post in a thread, I can just keep scrolling down to pick up on a new updated thread. No going “back a page” to find another thread.
I’m also finding it’s now easier to follow both the Tri forum and the LR, seamlessly switching from one to the other.
Only hiccup is that sometimes those “suggested” threads are “New and Unread.” Unread meaning that they are not necessarily new and sometimes they are years old without any new contributions. This is what I think FuzzyRunner was talking about. And I have to agree; its a bit tricky and I don’t think we should have “unread” threads from years ago being suggested.
Same for me. I barely check in daily now, even with Nice and Kona on the calendar, which is when I use to be on the most.
Have been logged out twice on my desktop today. And now I can’t log back in after the 2nd time.
Getting “you are not permitted to view the requested resource”.
Posted from my phone.
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I think your suggestion is a really good one that would address a majority of the problem people are highlighting and also satisfy the intent and vision of this forum. For a power user I think it’s a moot point as they will combine all sub forums into one but for those that are lurking or new they will tend to go to the “most popular” or one with the most engagement. Ironically I think without a change the most popular category will become the face of this forum which will be the anthesis of the goal of the founder and the direction of the site. When everything “slowtwitch” is in one category you will get cross engagement and bridge interests. For example when someone is here from googling something about triathlon sees another post about gravel cycling that will spike their “slowtwitch” interest and create engagement on that topic. When it is separated the likelihood of that cross engagement is diminished and the less popular topics will have less engagement. If the goal of this forum is all things “slowtwitch” there shouldn’t be subcategories for the disciplines. I understand the sites inclination to keep them separate from a vision standpoint, but this choice will cause an engagement regression to the mean(triathlon in this case).
I was scrolling this thread specifcally to see/check about posting pics. Along the way I stumbled onto two issues of curiousity to me: 1) will this reply make it clear that I’m replying to Yutaka_Sonik - I’ll see in a sec, and 2) Fit Assistance threads…hmmm are they still here to review, former author’s want to know!..
Now for the pic test… let’s grab some randos from the file…
Second IM… 1979, first female Lyn Lemaire, entry ~$3
Somebody grabbed this flying mount progression that I did out of T1 at the LA Tri one year.
Karen Sing, myself and Slowman at one of many fit schools
First triathlon, Mission Bay, San Diego - 50 years ago last week
I grew up in Aspen in the 70s and 80s there was a woman named Georgie Leighton who wore shorts (often lederhosen) year-round, she also rode a bike year-round. Her skin was like leather. She told my mom once that she was in the camps during the Holocaust and when they rose up and grabbed the guns from the guards only half of the guns worked. My mom asked what happened to her and Georgie answered “mine worked”. She was f*cking nails and I was in awe of her.
This picture posting thing is too cool. Thank heavens. This alone makes the changes worth while.
Ian
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