About the BikePortland Feedback category
We want to know what you think about BikePortland. Our coverage and editorial decisions are only as good as your feedback about them. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticleTesting a new topic from mobile
Hey, this is pretty easy, and I’m glad it works on mobile really well too. 3 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleBikePortland.org threading/nesting problems
@Jonathan_Maus, I just wanted to point out my comment on an article here, because I think this is a more appropriate place to call it out for you....
View ArticleGigantic Beer post - your thoughts?
This post on Beervana - Coronavirus Diaries (4/18): So Angry All the Time — Beervana - includes some very intense anti-bike sentiment. Its publisher says it’s just a personal diary and the raw...
View ArticleWhat do downvotes in the bikeportland comment section mean?
If I think about what kinds of comments I might give a downvote to, the ones that come to mind are comments that seem mean, trolling, stick-in-the-eye; comments that don’t advance the conversation but...
View ArticleWhere do other conversations on urban issues happen?
Where are there (Portland-specific) discussions going on about transit? Housing? Land use? Are there similar institutions to BikePortland for these topics that I’ve just never been aware of? I know...
View ArticleWho are the people down-voting comments?
Maybe I’m paranoid but there seems to be people down-voting all comments. There are innocent posts that gather dozens of down-votes. Posting a fact could end with 20 down-votes on a comment. Are these...
View ArticleNo way to tell if you've voted on a comment
Could you make it so that when you up-vote a comment the thumbs up changes to a different color. Sometimes I come back late and try to upvote comments that I’ve already upvoted. And having it be a...
View ArticleNo way to un-vote a comment
Now that the down-vote button is gone there’s no way to undo an up-vote. Can you make it possible to un-up-vote a comment again? 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
View ArticleBecky Jo's Carfree Life
Anyone else missing Becky Jo’s column? I really enjoy it. I know there are a LOT of things going on right now, but wanted to voice that I like these family biking and car-free lifestyle posts a lot. I...
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Negative votes still happening
Jonathan, I noticed a -1 score on this post (an upvote returned it to zero): https://bikeportland.org/2021/01/28/its-official-mayor-wheeler-adds-sam-adams-to-his-team-325396#comment-7380563 So there’s...
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2-stroke moped conversion...?!?
Sure, we’ve all seen them somewhere around town. There was one around my Vancouver neighborhood and it didn’t much bother me. He rode it safely and didn’t wring out the throttle into the really noisy...
View ArticleForum technical issues "You can't log in as _you_ from that IP address"
Anyone else run into this? Sometimes I have to restart the browser to clear the cookie, but today, I was unable to post it at all even after doing that for some time. Now it’s working normal again. 4...
View ArticleBikeportland.org is very slow
In recent weeks, I’ve noticed that the bikeportland website is very slow. It takes about 5.5 seconds for the initial contents to show up. That’s much slower than it used to be and also slower than...
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Feeling safer in DC
I moved cross country from OR to DC last June. (train & bike on rail trails). I’m amazed by the safe cycling in DC. Portland has not kept up. I’m visiting Portland this week and finding myself...
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Just discovered a forums feature that I appreciate
Go to any profile and you can find this for that particular user: You can set if for a particular timeframe. 2 posts - 2 participants Read full topic
View ArticleBikePortland comments-to-Twitter bug^Wfeature
Hey @Jonathan_Maus, regarding the new comments-to-Twitter feature, could it become possible for a commenter to de-select that option? Either for their comments in general (preferred option) or on a...
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Bikeportland server melt-down?
Unless it’s just me (?), the main website has been broken since late Friday or early Saturday. This “forums” host has been solid all along - yay! Back-end problem evidently, the Cloudflare proxy is...
View ArticleToxicity on these forums
I’m gonna say it, and I know arguments are expected on forums but it’s bad here. There is a lot of unnecessary toxicity/political tension on these forums, even over minor things. I’ve even seen it...
View ArticleNew categorized forums
I like the new categorized forums. 1 post - 1 participant Read full topic
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