Welcome to the New Forums!!! (post feedback here please)
Please see the instructions below..._____________________
EN Forum Introduction
Login to Endurance Nation, and click on the Forums Button in the Navigation.
That will take you to the new forums (you might have to login again). FYI - You will be prompted every 7 days to login again.
Once you are in the new forums, rejoice!
To learn more, here is the introduction information in a PDF for you (it;s in the new forums as as post and video as well!).
Key Steps:
You should click on your profile in the upper right and change your profile picture. The basic ones are pretty hideous!
You should update your signature -- click the gear wheel in the upper right of the page and type away! Note, please don’t edit your username / email here; we need those to let you in. But you can use the right sidebar to edit preferences, your signature and more!
Navigation
Categories — That’s the “top down” view of the forums, like we have traditionally had. You’ll see the 5 most recent posts for all forums by section. Note, you’ll see categories in the right sidebar as well, and that’s probably easier.
Threads — Those are the most recent posts, first, across all forums (not including Micro / Macro). That’s what’s happening!
Activity -- What’s happening to users in the forums by participation, etc. More on this soon as we demystify it!
Best Of -- These are our former Hall of Fame threads; just a new place to put them.
The Icons
Thanks for your patience, and more soon!
The Coaches
Comments
Is there a way to mark all threads "read"? I don't see that functionality anymore.
is there a master setting to display date/time stamping of replies? when you look at a thread, it shows month/year of original posting, but not dates/ times.. might be helpful, particularly on the replies
also - LOVE the fact that this apparently saves drafts as we type
Nice job guys!
Are you kidding me? I even posted a picture on the Dashboard!
Did I mention awesome????
I tried to post a response in my old Wilderman thread in the Epic Forum and got the following popup:
What does that mean? I tried to resubmit the saved draft before I saw the pop-up, don't know if my post will eventually appear ~2 or 3x.
We're glad you like it! Like anything new, it will take you, and us, time to figure it all out. I'm banging on the admin panel back here to see how settings work from forum to forum, how to configure things, etc. Please be patient as we all work through this, but use this thread as a place you to drop things as you notice them and we'll see what we can do.
@Paul Hough @FrancisPicardWhen I click mark as viewed, the "new" button goes away next to the posts...see image:
@Al Truscott - thanks...
Question: What forum tool are you using? I have a site that needs an upgrade, maybe this is the tool?
Coach P -
1) Can you restore the functionality of showing the newest 10 threads on the Dashboard and the ability to link into them from the dashboard?
2) What I select "Mark All Viewed" my expectation is that every single thread would disappear. So when I come back the next day and go into the forum the only threads I will see are new ones or those with new posts since I last marked them. Is that functionality forever gone?
My feedback is to request all URLs should be hosted as https:// instead of http:// .
This is sometimes called "SSL Everywhere" which provides a privacy and security benefits since data passing the site and visitors is encrypted by the SSL/TLS protocol.
Vanilla Forums appears to provide SSL/TLS as a free component of their service, so I'd like to encourage your site admin to enable it (source).
There are a lot of good reasons for setting up SSL everywhere, including privacy; members of the team share personal info that they believe can only be seen by themselves, e.g. account settings, or other team members, e.g. posts in these forums. This is not the case with http://, as the data is sent unencrypted over the network where it's possible for others with know-how to see this information.
It's also a security concern as it's possible for malicious individuals on your network to steal your login credentials and do anything they want on the site acting as a member.
There are other benefits, including SEO: Google gives favorable page rank to sites that enable SSL everywhere.
All this to say, https:// should be enabled for all pages on Endurance Nation and these forums if you agree those concerns should be addressed. The Let's Encrypt project has made it possible to obtain trusted SSL/TLS certificates for free so the only cost is the time needed to set it up.
Hope this feedback is helpful. Thanks!
Ross
My feedback is to request all URLs should be hosted as https:// instead of http:// .
This is sometimes called "SSL Everywhere" which provides a privacy and security benefits since data passing the site and visitors is encrypted by the SSL/TLS protocol.
Vanilla Forums appears to provide SSL/TLS as a free component of their service, so I'd like to encourage your site admin to enable it (source).
There are a lot of good reasons for setting up SSL everywhere, including privacy; members of the team share personal info that they believe can only be seen by themselves, e.g. account settings, or other team members, e.g. posts in these forums. This is not the case with http://, as the data is sent unencrypted over the network where it's possible for others with know-how to see this information.
It's also a security concern as it's possible for malicious individuals on your network to steal your login credentials and do anything they want on the site acting as a member.
There are other benefits, including SEO: Google gives favorable page rank to sites that enable SSL everywhere.
All this to say, https:// should be enabled for all pages on Endurance Nation and these forums if you agree those concerns should be addressed. The Let's Encrypt project has made it possible to obtain trusted SSL/TLS certificates for free so the only cost is the time needed to set it up.
Hope this feedback is helpful. Thanks!
Ross
My feedback is to request all URLs should be hosted as https:// instead of http:// .
This is sometimes called "SSL Everywhere" which provides a privacy and security benefits since data passing the site and visitors is encrypted by the SSL/TLS protocol.
Vanilla Forums appears to provide SSL/TLS as a free component of their service, so I'd like to encourage your site admin to enable it (source).
There are a lot of good reasons for setting up SSL everywhere, including privacy; members of the team share personal info that they believe can only be seen by themselves, e.g. account settings, or other team members, e.g. posts in these forums. This is not the case with http://, as the data is sent unencrypted over the network where it's possible for others with know-how to see this information.
It's also a security concern as it's possible for malicious individuals on your network to steal your login credentials and do anything they want on the site acting as a member.
There are other benefits, including SEO: Google gives favorable page rank to sites that enable SSL everywhere.
All this to say, https:// should be enabled for all pages on Endurance Nation and these forums if you agree those concerns should be addressed. The Let's Encrypt project has made it possible to obtain trusted SSL/TLS certificates for free so the only cost is the time needed to set it up.
Hope this feedback is helpful. Thanks!
Ross