Two feature requests for improving the Forum experience:
- Add the ability to only show threads with messages I haven’t read
- Add the ability to access the forums via Taptalk mobile app
Tapatalk integration would be awesome!!
- You can do a version of this right now.
- On Mobile: Tap the 3-bar “hamburger” at the top right, and then tap “Unread” from the list.
- On Desktop: I think it’s similar, but not able to verify right now.
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It works for Desktop the same way 
As for Tapatalk integration, I am not sure what this would entail on the Development end, but I will pass your suggestion onto the team.
Edit: Tapatalk is a different forum host altogether, so we likely will not be adding support for their application. It would require us to completely change how the forum is structured. That being said, the TR forum is hosted using Discourse, which has its own mobile application if you 're looking for an improved mobile experience
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@Bryce - here’s an overview: Tapatalk Mobile App - Community / Forum App for vBulletin, xenForo, phpBB, MyBB, SMF, Kunena, WBB and more
I think the bigger concern here is that @Bryce you have some forum reading to catch up on, lol.
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Can we also have a rating on each messages or use “thumbs up” to move important messages up in a thread. I am literally lost and cannot get the important messages in crowded conversations like how to prepare your ride drink or FTP estimate. IT is really time consuming.
Use the save button to save a specific post in a thread. That basically creates a link to that specific post in your account.
On my phone on the trainer, so I can’t post pictures of this
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That can work once you find a post you value and want to access later. But it doesn’t help to identify those specific posts in the beginning, which is what I think they are trying to get.
Essentially, they want a way to find the most highly rated comments in a forum topic. At this time, I don’t know if that is possible in the Discourse forum platform. I flagged this for research when I have more time to dig. I don’t know what options exist at this time.
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I cant find anything at first glance from Discourse support. 
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Yeah, I came up empty too.
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@IvyAudrain and @mcneese.chad,
See this post - Sort by likes in 2.5.0.beta6 - in the Discourse forum. I think this is what is being asked for, or very close.
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Thanks for the research and link!
Yeah, I am going to leave that “Matrix” language stuff to Ivy to relay 
That is well over my head, and something TR official will have to handle.
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Sorry if I puzzled anyone 
I just didn’t want to start a new post but wrote here despite my point is not relevant to this specific request.
@AlphaDogCycling is right, i wanted to see valuable information first instead of reading jokes and irrelevant discussions in a specific thread. take FTP estimate, Legacy pricing of TR and many similar topic. I am not following these topics daily/hourly and once a week when i open the forum i have to read a lot of irrelevant info to get the essence. If we use some sort of rating for each replies, people would rate the posts for valuable info and i wouldn’t get lost among thousands of replies.
Except posts that people like because they are funny or witty also get a lot of likes, not just those that provide the most “information”. So I don’t think being able to sort by number of like is going to give you what you want
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or maybe another voting on replies showing the relevance. I got this idea from pigeonhole when we do townhall/presentations, important questions -voted by the audience- coming first.
I’m not sure if you know this already, so apologies if this is repeat info. TrainerRoad didn’t develop these forums. They are run in a tool called Discourse, so if Discourse doesn’t have this functionality, afaik, TR doesn’t have the ability to implement it.
Also, being honest, I’m not sure many would take the effort to mark both “I like this post” AND “this post adds value for people who don’t want to read the whole conversation” fields. As always, YYMV.
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