Comments & Replies
Everything riders share on the HUB has one conversation under it: posts, GPX files, Signature Tracks, places, services, events, news, videos, roadbooks and trip journals. Reply to a comment, or to a reply, like it, and on the things riders rate, add your stars to your own comment.
- Where
- Under every item on its page, and on the cards of the home feed
- Who
- Anyone can read; you need to be signed in to comment, reply or like
- Ratings
- GPX files, Signature Tracks, places, services and roadbooks: one rating per rider, on their own comment
- Length
- Up to 4000 characters a comment
Where Conversations Are
Each item has a single conversation. Whether you open it on the website or in DMD2, you see the same comments.
- The home feed. Every card shows how many comments it has. Click the count to open the conversation right there, without leaving the feed. A post has no page of its own, so this is where its conversation lives.
- GPX files, places and services: Reviews & comments on the item's page. A review is simply a rider's comment with their stars on it.
- Signature Tracks: the track's comments, where you can also add up to four photos to your comment. A second comment from you is a new comment; it no longer replaces your first.
- Roadbooks in the public catalogue: Reviews & comments, as on a GPX file.
- Events and news: comments on the event's or the article's page.
- Videos: every video has its own page now, with the player, its description and its comments. Video links in the feed open it.
- Trip journals: comments beside a journal you listed publicly. You always see the comments on your own journals.
Reading a Conversation
Comments and their replies
Comments show as bubbles with Like and Reply under each one. Replies are tucked under the comment they belong to: View 3 replies opens them and Hide replies folds them away again. A reply to a reply says whom it answers, so you can follow who is talking to whom.
Order and more
Newest or Oldest at the top of the conversation sets the order. A long conversation loads in pages: View more comments brings the next ones. On a rated item, the top line shows the average and how many riders rated it.
A link to one comment
Copy link in a comment's ··· menu copies a link to that comment. Opening the link scrolls to it, opens its replies if it is one, and highlights it for a moment. Links from your notifications work the same way.
Comment removed
When a comment that has replies is deleted, it stays as Comment removed, so the replies under it still make sense. A deleted comment with no replies simply goes.
Commenting & Replying
- Write in the box at the top of the conversation, Write a comment…, and click Post. Signed out, the box is a Sign in link instead, which brings you back to the same page.
- Reply under any comment or reply opens a box under it, Replying to the rider you are answering. The × cancels it.
- Like under a comment likes it; it turns to Liked. Click again to take your like back.
- A comment can be up to 4000 characters. If you post a lot of comments in a few minutes, the HUB asks you to wait a little before the next one.
Reviews & Stars
On GPX files, Signature Tracks, places, services and roadbooks, reviews and comments are one conversation. There is no separate review form: when you have not rated the item yet, the comment box has Rate it with five stars, and the box asks you to Share how it was — or ask a question…
- Stars are optional. Leave them off to just ask a question; you can rate later.
- Each rider rates an item once, and the stars sit on your own top-level comment. Once you have rated, the box shows You rated this with your stars. Replies never carry stars.
- To change your rating, Edit the comment that has your stars: pick other stars, or Clear them.
- Deleting that comment deletes your stars with it; the HUB asks first.
Editing, Deleting & Reporting
The ··· next to a comment holds what you can do with it:
- Edit your own comment. An edited comment says Edited.
- Delete your own comment. On something you shared (your GPX file, your place, your event, your post…) you can also delete other riders' comments, except a comment that carries a rider's stars: their rating stays theirs.
- Report someone else's comment: pick why (spam, offensive or abusive, misleading, inappropriate, or something else). A moderator looks at it.
- Copy link, described above.
Knowing Someone Answered
When a rider replies to your comment, comments on something you shared, or likes your comment, it shows in the bell, grouped by conversation, with a Reply right there. Click it to open the item at that comment, or mute a conversation you no longer want to hear about. The bell is described under Notifications & the Bell; DMD2's HUB has the same list, and its conversations are in the DMD2 manual's HUB chapter.