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You can choose to fill out as much or as little information as you like - but of course, more information promotes a richer forum experience for all members.
Any suggestions for additional profile fields? What else would be interesting to know about each other? Best time in the 50 Freestyle?
All you have to do is click on the recipients profile picture or name and the option will be displayed in a short menu.
loneswimmer.com
If you like a comment that someone makes, find the word "Like" above the comment (next to Quote/Edit/Delete/Flag), and click it. If you are a Facebook user, this will be familiar technology.
If you "like" being able to "like" stuff, let us know. If you don't like it, let us know too!
For documentation, click the "BBCode" link below any comment box, or simply use the buttons above the box to insert code.
The new email service is powered by Mailchimp and should work much better. It sends one email per day (or week - your choice), containing all the new posts from that day (or week). It's pretty slick - here's a preview.
To subscribe to the Daily digest, go here:
http://eepurl.com/kPqKf
To subscribe to the Weekly digest, go here:
http://eepurl.com/kPscn
We hope this will be useful for people.
The Forum privacy policy remains the same: We won't share your email address with anyone, for any reason. For the Mailchimp privacy policy (which is highly regarded), see here.
loneswimmer.com
- "I'm traveling to Lagos, Nigeria to meet a guy who wants to give me a million dollars. Any good places to swim OW there?"
- "I just moved to Brighton Beach in NYC. Are there any OW groups around here, by any chance?"
- "I want to swim down the River Moskva, and am wondering where I can get permits or who I need to bribe? Anyone have an in with Putin?"
...then it probably belongs in this category.
Also, a few old threads have been re-categorized.
-Swim in Lagos Lagoon! Bring the millionaire along on the boat with the money, push him off, and strand him with an empty gas tank, no oars, and swim for shore! Could make for a million dollar marathon swim!
-CIBBOWS and Coney Island Polar Bears...duh!!!
-I bet Big River Man Martin could help you with the Moscow River Swim!
lol )
Try it, you'll like it!
I thought I'd take this opportunity for a couple reminders about basic internet forum etiquette.
* New topic = New thread
Please try to stay within the general confines of the thread topic. If you have an unrelated question or comment, it's usually better to start a new thread. Off-topic posts make threads less readable after the fact, and can be frustrating to current participants.
We realize sometimes this happens inadvertently - e.g., one person makes an offhand comment within a properly on-topic post, and then the next person responds to the offhand comment. In such cases, the moderators may choose to "split" the discussion into a separate thread. Nobody's fault - sometimes it just happens.
* Please limit signatures to three lines.
Signatures might include your name and a link to your website, but really not much more than that. Additional information belongs in your profile.
Overly-long signatures take up valuable screen real estate and can make the forum frustrating to read. If you have a signature longer than three lines, please shorten it.
Thanks!
(These guidelines have been added to the FAQ thread.)
i.e., upload image from your computer to imgur.com, get image URL, link to this URL in your comment.
The FAQ has been updated.
loneswimmer.com
If you receive email notifications of Forum private messages, you cannot "reply via email." Your message will go to an unmonitored inbox. You must reply via your forum inbox.
This has been added to the Forum Member Guide.
The new box is labeled Marathon Swimmers Blog Posts.
It displays a snippet of the most recent blog posts from a collection of (as of right now) 44 different marathon swimming blogs.
You can see which specific blogs are in this collection HERE. If you would like to add your own blog to this collection, please send me a request (preferably including your RSS feed URL) via private message.
Any feedback on this new feature is welcome - positive or negative. Let me know what you think.
I've now added a third option: Twitter. The alias MSForumFeed will tweet whenever there is a new post to the forum.
http://www.twitter.com/MSForumFeed
NOTE: This new Twitter account is separate from our existing MarathonSwimrs account, which is the official mouthpiece of the Forum, with less frequent updates.
Similar to Facebook, on this forum you have the ability to send other forum members either private messages or public messages. It is important to understand the difference between these two types of messages. I think sometimes people send a public message when they think they are sending a private message.
Private messages (PMs) are the ones that are in your Inbox. There is a link to your Inbox in the top menu.
There are two ways to send forum members a private message:
(1) Go to your Inbox. Click "Start a New Conversation." Type the username of the person you want to send a message. Write your message. Click send.
(2) Go to the Profile of the person you want to send a message. Look at the menu on the left side of the profile page. Click "Send [username] a message." Write your message. Click send.
Public messages appear on forum members' profile pages, and on the Activity page. They are visible to all forum members (but not visible to non-members). Public messages are equivalent to writing on someone's Timeline or Wall on Facebook.
To send another forum member a public message, go to their Profile. Write a message in the box that appears near the top. Click "Add comment." Please remember, these messages are visible to all forum members.
Questions?
https://www.facebook.com/marathonswimmers
http://www.thewhir.com/web-hosting-news/bluehost-hostgator-among-eig-brands-hit-massive-new-years-eve-outage
Do not panic.
It's been a while since we've bumped the MSF Facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/marathonswimmers
Be sure to 'like' us for the latest happenings in the marathon swimming world, delivered directly to your facebook timeline!
Oh, and we are also on Twitter:
http://twitter.com/marathon_swimrs
And... we're back.
I apologize for the extended outage. The hosting company we use for this site experienced a presumed denial-of-service attack from approx. 1pm to 7pm Pacific time. So, a widespread network outage, not specific to MSF.
No word yet on whether fans of Ben Hooper ( @AnthonyMcCarley's idea), or perhaps Putin trying to hack the MSF Awards ( @malinaka's idea), are responsible.
I just completed several long-needed back-end upgrades on the Forum. They should not much affect the regular user's experience of the Forum, so this is just an FYI:
There probably will be a few more kinks to resolve in the next few days, but let me know if you notice anything really wonky.
Known Issues
The "like" button is back! (I think)
Just finished one last upgrade, to the latest version of the forum software. Please PM me with any bug reports. Thanks.
Getting some reports of people's passwords not working after the recent software upgrade.
If this happens to you, please reset it via this link: https://forum.marathonswimmers.org/entry/passwordrequest
Or click "Forgot?" on the Sign In page.
Sorry for the hassle.
Is it possible to change the like to unlike after I liked it, to prevent accidentally unliking a post?
It's an issue of priorities, and this one is really, really low.