Community Updates! AMAs, Social & Promo days, open to opinions.

Hey everyone!

Hope the training is going well. Race season approaches for many of us, and the mod team has been thinking of me ways to spruce up the place a little.

First, new AMA series!

We've had pro athletes, which will continue soon, but I've been thinking about more research based AMAs that could help out the community. I've gotten to know quite a few experts in fields close to endurance sports and I think they could host REALLY great AMAs. Topics would be things like nutrition, aerodynamics, training science, all the classics.

Granted, some of these people will be attached to products, that's just where many experts are by their nature, but that will not be the leading edge I promise. Just like pro athletes are allowed to mention sponsors, we'll allow the business to be named. But the AMA will be done by the research teams and subject matter experts, not the marketers or salespeople. I promise. It's the only way we'd allow it.

Next, Wednesday Promo Thread revamp

Less interesting one, but we've wanted to spruce this up for a while. We think we can do some good for the community here. Thinking about a couple solutions.

One is splitting out a true social post. I know some people want to connect IRL (on Instagram or a blog, whatever) and we block those posts because we'd become a mess of social spam. But allowing them for one post could let the people who want to do it do while isolating it from those who don't want any social stuff in their feed.

The other and more important reason I kinda want this thread is so people can share all their discounts, sponsor codes, etc. This is an expensive sport and if we can help save each other some $$ in one spot without cluttering up the sub, seems like it could be nice. People could also request discounts here and maybe brands will even jump in to help. What do you think?

And with this, we'd keep the business/app/coaching promo thread separate and just focus it more. Every now and then there are legitimately cool things in there that I'm sad don't get more eyes. Hopefully the focus can help. And if it doesn't, nothing really changes I guess.

TLDR, please tell us what you think!

The goal is always to bring you all cool, helpful stuff. We think this could help. If you have any thoughts on how to do it better, as always, we're super open to opinions.

Thanks!