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Top-level forum *threads* (Running, Cycling, etc.) gone

WillNorthYork

Since there is no longer a place to discuss the forums themselves, I'm posting this here.

What happened to the *threads* in top-level forums such as Running and Cycling? There were a lot of discussions in those sub-forums and they all seem to be gone forever. I can't believe a conscious decision was made to preserve almost all the old content from the previous platform, but someone just decided to throw away all that content. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I get that in the new platform, there's no longer categories that have both sub-forums and threads (probably for both technical and usability reasons), but couldn't the top-level Running sub-forum have been moved and renamed to something like Running > General Discussion?

I posted an in-depth tutorial there on manually editing FIT files to set a bike wheel size smaller than 100mm, for use with certain indoor trainers. Still available on Google, but for how much longer? There's nothing on archive.org, either. Almost makes me wish I hadn't bothered, TBH.

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:_vGZPRGebf8J:https://forums.garmin.com/forum/into-sports/running/1298481-setting-bike-wheel-size-smaller-than-100mm&hl=en&gl=ca&strip=1&vwsrc=0

  • Similar question for the archived sub-forums, such as Edge 1000 and Edge 810, etc.

  • in reply to kiwimtnbkr

    Sorry, allow me to clarify -- the *threads* contained in the top-level forums (Running, Swimming, Cycling, etc.) are gone. You'll notice that there are no categories in the forums which contain both threads and sub-forums, unlike the old platform.

    In other words:

    Old platform: "Running" contained both threads and sub-forums. 
    New platform: "Running" contains sub-forums. The threads that used to be available in "Running" are gone.

    Which is why, again, I suggested moving the old top-level sub-forums to "bottom-level" sub-forums.

    e.g. The threads in Running could've been moved to Running > Discussion.

    For example, I posted the cached thread linked above, in the Running sub-forum: "Setting Bike Wheel size smaller than 100mm". Try finding it now.

    There were also some good general threads on training, VO2Max, etc., that didn't apply to any one Garmin device, and may still be relevant months or years later.

  • Former Member
    Former Member

    I could swear it was there on Friday in the afternoon.

    I was updating my old forum bookmarks and yours was one of them. "setting-bike-wheel-size-smaller-than-100mm"

    Also other bookmarks I redid on friday are gone.

  • in reply to Former Member

    Maybe it was a conscious decision to get rid of those top-level forum threads then. Oh well, if it was linked from anywhere else or shows up in a Google search, I guarantee that most ppl aren't going to search for it again when they get the "Sorry this page no longer exists" error. Especially because that page gives you no clue that the content you wanted might still exist, but at a different URL.

  • Former Member
    Former Member in reply to sabeard

    Indeed. Lots of us are still using the Edge 1000. Even if Garmin is no longer supporting updates (which is bad enough), the info in the sub-forum was still useful.