Question for Wejo and Rojo

I actually forgot about the auto play ads because I normally only access the site via mobile.

Another thing, when typing a response on my phone, as I'm doing now, I can't even see what I'm typing. The screen is completely absent, which seems odd. I'd post a screen shot, like I can do on every other message board I frequent, but of course this site won't allow me to.

BroJos, can you provide some color on this stuff?

1) Anonymity is an important part of this site. We may require registration for more things on this site but understand that many people don't want to have their posts tied to an identity. The people who want to cause the most trouble set up VPN's etc, so registration will be a little deterrent.

2) As for the photo galleries, one of things we like best about them is they are easy to navigate. On many sites you have to go photo by photo. So to see 10 photos you have to click on 10 pages. Here we have 30 photos a page and you can quickly jump to the next index page and then can quick on a photo and see a bigger photo.

See this:

http://www.letsrun.com/photos/2014/ncaa-cross-all-americans/index.php

Click on the arrow to go to the next index page? I don't see how that isn't easy to navigate. You can quickly see hundreds of photos. It is not mobile friendly but I'm not sure what's hard about the photo galleries. We keep using the older software because all the photos are on 1 page.

3) As for the autoplay video ads, what browser do you use? We'd prefer they don't have sound but it's a requirement from the advertising network. If you use Chrome and hit "Mute" it remembers your preferences. Next time you come back you do not hear sound. Similar to how ESPN works. We have contemplated getting rid of them, but don't think hitting "mute" is too much of an obstacle. I think for Firefox it only remembers it for the user session.

Please feel free to email me

wejo@letsrun.com

Thanks for the response Weldon. I guess we'll have to agree to disagree on the format for the photo albums, although I do see your point. Personally, I much prefer the format that mensracing.com used to use. They also had pages of photos to view but made it much easier to scroll from pic to pic (i think by just clicking on the pic itself).

However, your response, "Anonymity is an important part of this site" doesn't jive with me because every site I post on requires registration and also allows for anonymity.

Take Deadspin for example. On Deadspin, you must sign in through kinja and then post under your registered handle. This doesn't alert the world that "John Smith" is posting 20 times a day in the same discussion, but rather that "Steamboat John" is posting.

I truly believe that this format raises the integrity of the overall discussion area when you know that it's not just one person starting a thread about a certain runner and then concurring with his own thesis 7 times under various handles. Do you not agree?

It also creates a better community where posters get to know each other much better even if it's just the quirks of some anonymous poster.

Weldon, do you frequent any other forums that do not require registration?

1) I just went to a photo album and clicked on the pics and found that I can scroll through that format. I stand corrected.

2) Why were comments from this thread deleted? My 2nd post was in response to some ad autoplay comments and now they're gone. What gives?

Weldon, did you delete them? And if you didn't, who did and why?