can you explain what the tags have to do with the posts? why would you tag a post?

tags are like categories but they are open to the posters discretion and they allow for more targeting of content for people searching. for example all posts up to now go in 'general discussion' or 'gear', etc. With tags you can label it 'triathlon bikes' or 'trek ttx' or 'Portland' stuff like that and then it'll be setup that you can view all related posts tagged 'Portland' or 'Trek TTX'.

Favorite this is a new feature that allows you to put items in a bookmarks folder. so posts you want to track, articles of particular interest etc. soon I'll create a page that you can go to and see all your favorites and also if anyone has commented on them recently. so just a shortcut type of feature for pages you want to track.

ya. will take a little getting used to, but I think long term you guys will like it. I will look into the latest posts type of page. I'm hoping to create one that would include all content, so new forum, new articles, new reviews, etc. so it's easy to find what's new to the site as a whole.

Looks good, Paul! I'm with Kyilie, that New Posts button is my favorite, so it'd be great to have it back. thanks!

Ooh, also, I'd like to have the option again to have newest posts on top versus on bottom.

Yes, I could do it within the threads (I think it was an option under your profile). That way you didn't have to scroll to the end of a page.

I can't get into the Training Log. Hmmm.

Sure did, thanks!

Excellent. Not sure why it's sensitive to require only the login form on the homepage, but I'll try to figure it out. Glad that worked.

HOLY **** What happened!

Just kidding!!

Looks good.

Ha! I think you found it.

No regional right now. I'm going to redo the local directory and have discussions in there. If you have something regional for now just post in General Discussion and tag it with the city or regional info.

Looks good. I'm with Anton though, after a couple years with the other style, this will take some getting used to. Guess I have a reason to spend more time here.

Ya. once i get the new gear guide and races up I'll get back to more member stuff.

I second cjhoffmn's suggestion.

Thanks for the feedback...

1. ya. not sure how to get this done yet. as far as mark all read. If you go to the "recent posts" link though it should filter up waht's new, and if there is a "#number New" link that is what's new in that thread for you. Once it filters out that all have been reset it should work.

2. Ya I need to go through all the old pages to update that link. It's updated on the homepage for now. thanks.

3. I will be looking into adding comment email notification later this week so you can get emails when new posts are made.

4. clicking on that "new" link should take you to the last post. this all works for me o.k. let me know if it isn't for anyone else (some issues if the thread has multiple pages - looking into that). But i go to the forum link or recent posts and it highlights what posts are new since last I checked and provides a link to them. I think it works a little different but should be pretty much what the last forums did with the new posts link.

The benefits will be more evident once I get the rest of the changes complete. This is just phase one to bring everyone on one system. Currently the gear, articles, forums, blog aggregator are all on different software systems. Trying to bring them onto one system. I basically need to update and bring the gear and race directories up to snuff. The old forums software has kinda been holding that process back. So I needed make some changes to move things forward.

I go away for a couple of days and look what you did!!!

I´ll need some time to get used to this new layout but it looks nice.

o.k. so there is now a 'comment viewing options' at the bottom of the thread where you can set your preference to show newest comments first. Please don't choose to display hundreds of comment per page though as it might cause some slowing of the server. haven't tested how it might affect things.

Also this should affect all the threads...

Thanks for the reply Paul.

As for getting rid of the marked as new ones, in your feed back I'm not sure what you meant by "once it filters out that all have been reset it should work".

Right now my "recent posts" lists every post I haven't gone to in this format as new. That is hundreds? thousands? of posts. So in my "recent posts" I have pages and pages with "# New" links. Do I have to actually click on those to get rid of them? I could just ignore them and leave them there, but then not only is it hard to tell what is really new, but I'm also anal about wanting it to be clean and true ;)

Clicking on the "# New" link isn't really working right for me (on mozilla). For example, in this thread, which I hadn't read since my last comment, it took me to RV's comment below your reply to mine. So I would have missed your info to me if I hadn't scrolled up to check for sure that it was my first new comment.

Tribro - any way to quote a previous post?

And Kylie - that is a good feature that You were taken directly to one of my posts! ;)

Ok makes sense on the "recent posts" info.

Thanks for the quote info! That will be helpful since it doesn't seem there is a threaded version of posts? Where you can see who replied to who?

As for the new link, I'm using Firefox on Windows XP right now (was on Vista yesterday). It seems to just go the middle of the last post on the first page (even if my last new is a couple comments above that). I'm looking at some of the older threads that are marked as having new posts for me, and they also take me to the last comment on the first page, and so that the name of the person who left the comment is only half on the screen, and the comment box is visible. I'll email you a screen shot in a sec.

but... if you use the threaded version the comment is placed after the comment you are replying to so it won't filter to the top or bottom of the page for new posts.

Ok that makes sense.

And the "# New" link seems not to work if the new posts were left while I'm on the site. I refreshed the "recent posts" page and saw there were 3 new posts here. So I clicked on "3 New" and it took me to the top of the thread.

Any configurable way for me to stop the original post from always being on top - even there when sorted newest first.
Liked it at first but when there are multiple posts it is kind of annoying...just being picky. :)

can a page number line be added at the top of the thread page so that you don't have to scroll down to the bottom to get to it? (i like reading in order [reverse order bugs me] but, when threads get long, I want to jump ahead)

[i have to say i'm not thrilled with the changes, but i'm waiting and hoping that there are more to come...it seems like the forum structure got simpler, but not necesarily in a richer more elegant way(...my 2 cents...take that for what it may be). I love the site, so maybe I'm just reacting to having it change.]

I'll look into adding a pager at the top as well. Thanks for the feedback. I know change is tough sometimes and appreciate everyone's patience with this update. I hope to have the gear guide launched next week and the race guide by end of the month.

When adding a thread there will be a field for entering tags. Just word descriptors separated by commas.