The Improved LetsRun.com Forum Is Here - We want your feedback

I'll post as things come up.

It looks like once I've voted on a post, I can't change my vote. Is that right? It's locked in forever? I occasionally hit the upvote/downvote arrows on reddit by mistake, or I have an honest change of heart, and want to change my vote. Is that not possible?

I blocked all the annoying people here, and now I can't see any posts! 🤷

If you are logged in, you can change your vote. If you are not, you get one vote and that's it.

makes perfect sense, thanks!

Content Filtering

1. Whether logged in or not, users can choose to see only running posts on the main forum index.
2. Logged in users can filter forum index pages by categories; these filters persist across sessions and devices.
3. Logged in users can block registered accounts and will no longer see their posts.

Voting

1. Users can upvote and downvote posts.
2. Logged in users can change their votes; anonymous users may only vote once.
3. Votes are not used to rank or sort posts; all threads and post still appear chronologically. We will, however, have the ability to see the most popular posts on the forums and highlight them. We will also be able to see downvoted posts to consider removing them.

Moderation

1. We have created a page that shows all of our rules and community guidelines, as well as statistics on how fast we moderate: https://www.letsrun.com/forum/moderation-information-and-community-guidelines
2. When a post is deleted in a thread, a placeholder with the post number is provided to denote that a post used to be there.
3. A set of forum rules/community guidelines is now stored in a database.
4. When users report posts, they can select from the rule/guideline they think the post broke. Moderators will see this rule when deciding whether or not to delete a post.
5. When a post is deleted, moderators must select a rule (or accept the one provided by the reporter).
6. All reports/deletions are tagged by the rule broken.
7. Moderators now have a moderator-only forum to discuss decisions and policies.
8. We now alert select moderators through text message if a reported post has not been moderated for over 30 minutes.
9. Moderators have improved tools to detect bad behavior by anonymous posters.
10. We are accepting applications for new moderators. Contact Weldon at wejo@letsrun.com.

Quote system

1. Quotes have been restyled to be easier to read.
2. Long quotes are now truncated but can be viewed with a button-click.
3. The reply editor now only allows you to nest quotes two-levels deep.
4. The reply editor lets you remove nested quotes with a button-click.
5. When viewing threads, quotes that are deeper than two levels are removed.

Other User Experience Improvements

1. The forum now uses the same layout as the homepage and the articles.
2. Colors and other styling elements have been improved.
3. It is now easier to follow users: you can just click Follow on the post.
4. Users can be blocked in the same location.
5. Posts in threads are now ranked with a post number. This can make it easier to refer to specific posts.
6. Pagination is improved. On mobile, there should be less text-wrapping that looks bad. On desktop, you can enter a page and go to it. Overall, the look and feel is improved.
7. Link, image, and social media previews are now done on our own server and should no longer cause page jitter.
8. There is now a user bar at the top of every forum page for logged in users that lists your last 10 visited threads, followed threads, posts by users you follow (Supporter Club only), threads you posted in, posts you create, and threads you created.
9. There is a similar bar for non-logged in users to provide quick links to sign in, create an account, etc.
10. There is a new post reply editor that allows some basic richtext features.
11. The user dropdowns now provide more information, such as post counts, without fetching content from the server.
12. All database queries have been analyzed and optimized. Better caching has been implemented where helpful.
13. We have removed dependency on a number of javascript tools and frameworks. This should make the page feel faster and also remove some page jitter.
14. There are various accessibility improves for users with disabilities.

We still have more things on our list. In the coming months we'll be working on:

1. Potentially adding an edit post button.
2. Improving the search functionality.
3. Improving the post preview feature.
4. Adding a markdown/text-only reply editor that logged in users can toggle on.

Feel free to share ideas and bugs you find. Thank you.

I can't see you either. So far so good.

I'm seeing an issue with changing votes, where the change reverts momentarily and then reappears. Erik, if you want more detailed repro/description, video, etc happy to help; shoot me an email at c.conor.sleith@gmail.com

Great work!

I'm getting this message when trying to post.

"You can only post under one unregistered name per thread."

The thread only has one post and it wasn't me. 

thumbs up

Could you email me at erik@letsrun.com which thread it was that you received this error?

Happens here and everywhere else.

Good update.

I like it. The block feature cleans things up a lot.

The thumbs up is nice(replaces the +1), there is no need to repeat 7 times what someone else already said previously in the thread.

Edit feature would be nice. In the original post I see a few typos that could be easily rectified with one.

I like following threads but not sure about following posters…

Thanks for the upgrade!

If anyone else has this issue, could you please email me at erik@letsrun.com with your IP address and the thread you tried to post in. I am not able to reproduce this error myself and could use assistance doing so. I would also like to know if this issue is widespread. Thank you.

Why can't I preview my post?

I've had the same issue - definitely confusing to attempt to post for the first time in a thread and get it.  Happened in this thread attempting to post anonymously.

I think I've narrowed this down to when people are logged in but posting anonymously. Does this match your experience?

If so I should be able to debug it fairly quickly. Hopefully tonight. Gotta get the kids from school. Thank you.

This with jumping to a page in a thread is very good help! Well done! :)

Let's go Letsrun is finally usable now! Really excited to test out the features etc. I think it might be a good idea to have only logged in users be able to upvote/downvote to prevent brigading erik. Doesn't have to be visible but just stops people coming from outside and, without any sort of friction, downvoting people into oblivion.