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So what are the world championships in October? Aren't they organized by IDO?

Are the official world championships the ones organized by IDO or by WDSF?

All fixed.

This will be fixed. These things as well. Yeah, the update is finished, but I am still testing around so if you will see some weird things don't worry. Please keep reporting bugs.

It should now work? We are going through a software update so there might be more bugs/problems in the next days, please report them here. I can already tell you the latest replies box threads will not be bolded anymore for unread threads. There was already a bug before because threads remained bolded after the first time you opened them, so they decided to remove that feature at all and no threads will be bolded now

Yeah, still an idea. There is no hurry for that, and first I wanted to hear Indian users opinion to be sure there is interest on that. I know some Indian users have a Whatsapp group, has this been proposed there? What was the general feeling about that?

Copy-paste from the other thread: From the experience of Totallympics I can tell you the difficult part is the very first one, where there are few posts and few active people. When the active people will grow, more people will be interested to join. You would not start exactly from zero because you can count on the French users who are already here. You can inform about the forum in other forums with sport fans (without this become spam ), some Facebook groups and so on. And after some time people will start getting on the forum through search engines, and you can relax and enjoy the forum If it will be a "bide", it would not be such a drama. We tried, it didn't work, you will stil have the France National Thread here. Anyway, let's hear the opinion of other French users here to understand if this is something which could potentially work.

Yeah, that's the difficult part. From the experience of Totallympics I can tell you the difficult part is the very first one, where there are few posts and few active people. When the active people will grow, more people will be interested to join. You would not start exactly from zero because you can count on the French users who are already here. You can inform about the forum in other forums with sport fans (without this become spam ), some Facebook groups and so on. And after some time people will start getting on the forum through search engines, and you can relax and enjoy the forum

Yeah, it surely won't be easy and maybe not even necessary. But some communities does not even have a forum/group and we might give them one. Or maybe they have a Facebook group whose features are very limited and we can give them a place where to have everything organized in sections, threads, using tables etc, something which social networks do not allow. Also, there is nothing to loose in that, there are no expenses, should the forum never take off we can just close it anytime or try it in another moment.

Of course I understand it. As right now you are 3 active Irish users, it would not make sense to create a sub-forum just for you. Maybe it would if one day the Irish community would grow so much that writing here in the national thread would not be enough for you anymore and you would like to have different sections and threads to talk about Irish athletes results, medal prospects etc. Also, being English your language it makes it less useful than for other nations, where they could also gather users who are not active here because they don't speak English or feel shy to write in another language.

I translated the message and I'm not sure what you mean with the last sentence You are afraid of the... ? Anyway, we can give a try with no stress and see how it goes. There is nothing to loose, there are no expenses because I already pay for the server, if it will not take off we can just close it or try again later.

Absolutely, that should be one of the priorities when setting up those sub-forums. But I think we can easily avoid that. Ideally, sub-forums would take the place of Facebook groups of olympic sport fans, giving them a better place to discuss rather than a Facebook group. And at most, it would take the place of National Threads, because for nations with lots of users I think one single national thread is not enough. We have seen that with India in the past, there were so many users that the National thread was not enough anymore for them and they moved to whatsapp groups. In general, I think people interested to interact with people from the rest of the world would not leave Totallympics for their national sub-forum. A national sub-forum would bring more people who does not want to use English language or that simply are not interested to talk with people from all around the world. But I agree that is something we should be careful on and that is why I think... ...this idea could be dangerous because a multi-nations forum would take the place of the main Totallympics for spanish/portuguese speaking fans and that is not what we want.

Yeah. That would be basically like moving to a Facebook group, of course with more features. The mobile experience would probably be better, but I also see many negative points.

I'm not usre how tapatalk work, but if I'm not wrong that would mean to "sell" the forum to them?

No, unfortunately that is not possible. It would lead to also ignoring posts from users you don't ignore.