Suppressing Forum Topics

[dkel]

Weird. I am participating, and was thinking the same thing! Sooo many teams!

[rcannon100]

Help! Help! I’m being Suppressed!!!

[lordofthemark]

This is probably peak freezing saddles though, the FS posts should fall off a bit once all the team members are signed in.

[jabberwocky]

I kinda feel like Freezing Saddles needs its own website or something. This forum is bordering on unusable with all the threads. Its drowning out normal discussion and I find myself not even trying to pick through to find the non-FS topics anymore.

[PotomacCyclist]

Only one of the top 8 new forum posts is BAFS-related right now, not counting this thread.

[S. Arlington Observer]

As the teams get fully signed on to team Strava sites I suspect members will post team specific stuff under the “Discussion” part of the Strava team site instead of on the Freezing Saddles page. The issue really should resolve on its own very soon. The forum postings were necessary before everyone was signed up with a team as a tool to find and organize the team members.

[jabberwocky]

@PotomacCyclist 132172 wrote:

Only one of the top 8 new forum posts is BAFS-related right now, not counting this thread.

I tend to check in once or twice a day. Currently, of the 29 threads that have updated in the past 24 hours, 50 percent or so are FS threads. Some days its been even worse (75% plus). Its great and all, no offense to the FS crowd, but its cluttering the shit out of the forum for those of us who aren’t involved. If there was some way to just check “I’m not doing that event” somewhere and hide those threads I would be quite happy.

[hozn]

@PotomacCyclist 132172 wrote:

Only one of the top 8 new forum posts is BAFS-related right now, not counting this thread.

That may have been briefly true, but not when I looked.

Jabberwocky has a point. I think there’s a question on whether there is an intent for FS to drive forum participation. If not, then I think we could probably find other infrastructure for communications in the future, but I think there is a strong desire to have this competition be something that is simply a part of the bikearlington/washingtonareabike forums website. Which kinda leaves us in a situation where the forum will be abuzz with FS threads for at least a few weeks out of the year. (It quiets down a bit.) I suspect that if the FS folks have to use another website for comms, the forum would be a bit of a ghost town for those same weeks.

[PotomacCyclist]

I also think the overall benefits of increasing cycling and DC-region cyclist community building can outweigh the temporary inconvenience of the new forum list being less useful. I say this as someone who is not participating in BAFS. (I don’t use the new forum post list that much anyway. It’s easy for me to scan the main forum index and see which sub-forums are highlighted in bold type.)

[mstone]

@jabberwocky 132180 wrote:

I tend to check in once or twice a day. Currently, of the 29 threads that have updated in the past 24 hours, 50 percent or so are FS threads. Some days its been even worse (75% plus). Its great and all, no offense to the FS crowd, but its cluttering the shit out of the forum for those of us who aren’t involved. If there was some way to just check “I’m not doing that event” somewhere and hide those threads I would be quite happy.

I’ve got 17 unread threads, 7 of which are not FS related.

[mstone]

@PotomacCyclist 132182 wrote:

(I don’t use the new forum post list that much anyway. It’s easy for me to scan the main forum index and see which sub-forums are highlighted in bold type.)

Once you’ve started, you’ll never look back! Digging through the forum list is a time waster.

[jabberwocky]

@PotomacCyclist 132182 wrote:

(I don’t use the new forum post list that much anyway. It’s easy for me to scan the main forum index and see which sub-forums are highlighted in bold type.)

I find the BA forum mostly unusable without the “new posts” button (in fact, my bookmark for the site goes straight to it rather than the forum index). Way too many subforums for the level of traffic this site gets. But thats another discussion.

[lordofthemark]

@jabberwocky 132190 wrote:

I find the BA forum mostly unusable without the “new posts” button (in fact, my bookmark for the site goes straight to it rather than the forum index). Way too many subforums for the level of traffic this site gets. But thats another discussion.

OMG! We totally need a thread about that.

[Tim Kelley]

Yeah, what’s the fix?

[rcannon100]

@Tim Kelley 132192 wrote:

Yeah, what’s the fix?

Whine and complain a whole bunch about a free service????

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