The New LetsRun.com Homepage is Here

Could you add the following enhancements to your little html code algorithm or just add a machine learning AI that thinks like Pre.

1: Allow posters to earn trolling points for effective posts judged by their peers.

2: Post of month should be awarded by random poll and poster of year competition voted on by LRC registered users.

3: If a user only adds non-running content in posts they should receive a week or month timeout.

4: Mods should be replaced by a multi-national contingent of running enthusiasts who have a high tolerance for insightful, humorous, and creative posters.

5: Bring the fun back.

6: Posts should only be deleted if they offend 98% of the jobby hoggers in North Dakota.

7: More Greg

8: More Jamin

9: Less harmony

10: Less compassion

11: More "Pure Hate"

Liking the new homepage- great job. I actually didn't know if I was on a different website when I first logged on.

Question though regarding the change of the slogan from "Where Dreams Become Reality" to "Home of Running".

In the Message Board, the logo (top left corner on MBs) still has the old slogan "where dreams become reality" underneath it.... did you mean to keep that there or should it be changed to the new slogan? Just wasn't sure if you were rotating the mottos of the website, and wanted it changed in all areas, or if you just wanted it changed on the website.

Otherwise looks great!

I think I'd rather have something like HS News/College News/Pro News where the quote of the day is and just move down the quote of the day a little bit to make it easier to see a few articles of what's happening on each scene.

erik wrote:

I’m investigating an issue causing some bugginess on mobile articles. Hope to patch soon.

Thanks everyone else for feedback.

Issues with mobile should be resolved. Sorry about that.

DTX_Running_Guy wrote:

Liking the new homepage- great job. I actually didn't know if I was on a different website when I first logged on.

Question though regarding the change of the slogan from "Where Dreams Become Reality" to "Home of Running".

In the Message Board, the logo (top left corner on MBs) still has the old slogan "where dreams become reality" underneath it.... did you mean to keep that there or should it be changed to the new slogan? Just wasn't sure if you were rotating the mottos of the website, and wanted it changed in all areas, or if you just wanted it changed on the website.

Otherwise looks great!

Thanks for the thoughtful feedback and kind words.

We'll slowly be bringing the older parts of the site into the new design and architecture. There's a lot to do and we wanted to get the main parts of the site up first before tackling the forum, shoe site, etc.

(We now attach a slogan to each day's homepage, so we could go back to the dreams become reality some days, or do something more topical. Some inside baseball: I namespaced (code-named, if you will) all the new design stuff "DBR" for "dreams become reality," so the vision will quietly live on. If you hunt around under the covers you may find those letters in various places.)

Technically, its very nice.

Cons:

Holy wall of text, batman. Just too much.

I'd have spent the effort on the decrepit forum.

Still, it does look nice, not sure it looks like letsrun but probably after a week or 2, people will have adapted and forgotten the old style. Every website that pushes out a major change deals with this. Should be fine.

Requesting desktop website also seems to be broken on iPhone safari. No matter what it shows the mobile site. Running iOS 14.4

pappas bun wrote:

Requesting desktop website also seems to be broken on iPhone safari. No matter what it shows the mobile site. Running iOS 14.4

Could you email me (

) a screenshot of what you see?

Thanks--

I like it . Less clutter

Honestly, it will take some getting used to. Is there a way you can implement a dark mode option?

i already miss the old home page

Looks like crap.

I'm too scared to look.

Would like to see the present LETSRUN.com logo on the main page in the original colors (just like the message board), the font type and capital letters are fine, some change is good once in awhile.

Not a fan of the new look. My eyes struggle to read through the news whereas before I had no problem scrolling through. Lack of clear subdivisions and color distinction. This site works because of its unique character. Modernizing it doesn’t necessarily make it more appealing. At least the MB is still the same.

So why the random date of Feb 17th. A little strange but hopefully has some signicance.

More I think about it, would love to see the old logo and more yellow back. I just got my letsrun.com shirt a couple months ago and the shirt matched the logo/site. Now if I where it, the all yellow shirt really doesn’t make sense to people if they go to the site so now I’m going to be self conscious about the shirt.

Not a fan:

- background/backdrop too empty

- too "texty", not enough separation between topic/articles

- too big, can't see as much on each page. Everthing is kind of mashed together...needs more separation

How do i get to the home page from here? Ads are covering your top navigation bar. ???

I'm still trying to figure out if the airplane takes off on the treadmill.