What features/upgrades do you want to see to LetsRun.com?

Adam Ant. wrote:

Longtime visitor. wrote:

I've visited the forum since the beginning and less in recent years cause of all the negativity and trolling. Please have required registration. I miss real runners having serious discussions. Most people probably don't even realize the forum used to be great. There must be so much s*** now that even if something is reported it's not immediately removed. There's so much crap and fake news.

There's currently 51 threads on running on Page 1 of the main forum, not enough for you? (you can count how many on Page 2).

I guess the trolling you're on about is threads like this:

"Help. My mailbox has been invaded by ants - rojo"

imagine going to a restaurant and seeing 51 items of food and 32 pieces of poop on the menu. I would not go back.

Also, allowing the troll threads/posts/posters encourage trolls to stick around and they end up ruining half the running threads anyway, either by directly posting or by driving away the coaches and pros that used to post here.

this site is a turd circling....

poo poo wrote:

Adam Ant. wrote:

There's currently 51 threads on running on Page 1 of the main forum, not enough for you? (you can count how many on Page 2).

I guess the trolling you're on about is threads like this:

"Help. My mailbox has been invaded by ants - rojo"

imagine going to a restaurant and seeing 51 items of food and 32 pieces of poop on the menu. I would not go back.

Also, allowing the troll threads/posts/posters encourage trolls to stick around and they end up ruining half the running threads anyway, either by directly posting or by driving away the coaches and pros that used to post here.

this site is a turd circling....

This is known as a false equivalence.

There's only so much to talk about running. You are bound to talk about something else. Rather or not that is another sport, what's going down in the world today, or whatever personal problems you are having. Think of letsrun like a support group for runners. So what if not everything we talk about here is about running. Majority of the things we discus here is about running. When you out on a run with your friends, do you only talk about running, while running?

I can't complain about the site- you do a great job.

If I saw more of anything I would say road race coverage.

Maybe it's just changing times but when running was more popular the 8k-1/2 marathon (20k) races were in the news more.

There was a circuit of prize money races and a lot of American runners made a name on it.

You may be covering them (and I may be missing it) but maybe a column (on the home page) dedicated to weekly road races?

Good idea (not). wrote:

gsimmons2005 wrote:

force people to register to prevent anon trolls

Good idea, then we can have anonymous registered trolls.

I like this. I've considered using my real name but the trolls could be brutal.

I also think anyone who makes an unfounded drug accusation should be banned for life.

I remember when a woman set an American record and the accusations flew. I know her, we're friends.

The next day I saw her father- he said accusations like that hurt but she has learned to laugh them off.

If someone fails a test- bash away.

If a former drug cheat returns- ok, mention it but don't accuse.

A way to go back and edit your own post would be nice.

If it doesn't work in lynx, i don't like it wrote:

* Perhaps a paid premium membership tier that would provide an ad-free experience?

In theory this sounds good. In practice it will be bad. What most sites that offer this end up doing is making the ads so obtrusive, unblockable, and annoying that only paid users will access the site. This is exactly the sort of thing adblock was created to get around.

Eliminate the embedding of images. Makes threads load weirdly and slowly.

poo poo wrote:

Adam Ant. wrote:

There's currently 51 threads on running on Page 1 of the main forum, not enough for you? (you can count how many on Page 2).

I guess the trolling you're on about is threads like this:

"Help. My mailbox has been invaded by ants - rojo"

imagine going to a restaurant and seeing 51 items of food and 32 pieces of poop on the menu. I would not go back.

Also, allowing the troll threads/posts/posters encourage trolls to stick around and they end up ruining half the running threads anyway, either by directly posting or by driving away the coaches and pros that used to post here.

this site is a turd circling....

Letsrun needs an upvote/downvote system like reddit and a means to prevent people from just making accounts to upvote their threads to the top and downvote others enmasse.

Britain isn't good at track anymore because they didn't develop an ncaa like college system. Canada did, Japan did. Instead of just assuming the US is doing something wrong, look to yourselves. The club system harms runners who may chose to go to a university away from their club. Many of your juniors come to the US for the club system.

With that said, post collegiate running under the British club system is far superior. If letsrun had a category to accomodate British club running, it may still not draw a lot of Brits because the topic isn't covered much on the front page. I think a British centric category could only help, but eventually you get the question where do you draw the line. Do you include Japan? Japanese universities, clubs, pro teams, amateurs all have different systems than the US and could be 4 different subforums.

I wish letsrun got more international traffic and maybe including British, Irish, Australian, New Zealander, Kenyan, Indian, South African, and Canadian centric categories could be a first step toward that.

Wolf's Bane wrote:

poo poo wrote:

imagine going to a restaurant and seeing 51 items of food and 32 pieces of poop on the menu. I would not go back.

Also, allowing the troll threads/posts/posters encourage trolls to stick around and they end up ruining half the running threads anyway, either by directly posting or by driving away the coaches and pros that used to post here.

this site is a turd circling....

Letsrun needs an upvote/downvote system like reddit and a means to prevent people from just making accounts to upvote their threads to the top and downvote others enmasse.

No, that would ruin the flow of the conversations.

Less racists in 2019!

It would be nice to have a way to post tabular data in the forums. Even something as simple as a way to specify a monospaced font (like courier) would allow people to post readable tables of training plans.

Wolf's Bane said: Instead of just assuming the US is doing something wrong, look to yourselves.

can I suggest you review and refresh your reading comprehension skills, because your comment has precisely nothing to do with what I said.

I was not "assuming the US is doing something wrong," I was suggesting that the forum could be more inclusive.

one simple way to do that is to have a category for non-US running. is there anything particularly radical about that?

cheers.

Very simple things that have been needed forever:

1. Make a new forum filter at the top that gives “everything except non-running related threads”

2. Make the filter categories actually match up with the categories you can select from when starting a thread. It makes zero sense that there are some categories you can make a thread about, but then you can’t search for that category in any way (like Injury/Nutrition or Masters Running).

Please don't change anything :(

Mandatory wrote:

Mandatory registration with an identifiable account to try and cut down on the number of useless trolls.

Way to lead by example!

This business in the forum where I click the "next" button for the next page in a particular thread and it opens in a new tab and th current page forwards to some engine applet URL for ads. This is absolutely ridiculous.

Increase the font size a couple points.

Registered users only.

Improved monitoring of the site to remove and ban racist posts. It's astonishing what you guys host here sometimes.

Not sure how the tagging will work. Who tags the post? Threads so often weave and expand and digress that the latter pages will have conversations that include people not mentioned in the OP. I think an improved search function will work better than tagging things.

Definitely allow the reader to collapse embedded quotes if they're just quotes of an earlier post.

I think improve the layout on the homepage, but not so much the boards. The homepage is a cluster****.

erik wrote:

It's a new year and we are putting together a list of priorities for upgrading the LetsRun.com software.

What do you want to see with respect to the following?

1. The forum software

People who want advanced forum software can get that from tracktalk.net. I would highly suggest not changing a thing with the letsrun forum.

Move to HTTPS-everywhere already. That means if l visit

http://www.letsrun.com

I should end up at

https://www.letsrun.com

invariably. Let's Encrypt (hey, similar name!) has driven the price down to the cost of your time plus a rounding error in server cost.

Also, the forums are fine aside from that.