Questions About The Site

After participating on this site for years it was only today that I noticed this forum. I have PM'd Brock about this issue but thought I'd post about it here as well. I view it as a problem that there are often multiple threads on the same topic, or very closely-related topics. This was especially messy during the Correa free agency and subsequent contract signing when I think there were close to a dozen or more different concurrent threads on the matter in the various forums. Just today a new article was posted on the topic of the opening day starter when the matter had been extensively discussed only a couple weeks previously. My suggestion is for administrato…

I admit it can be fun to guess / figure out which Twin is shown in the photos st the top of TD news postings, but it frustrates me (and maybe others?) at least as much. Would it really be difficult to add labels? I note that each photo has a credit listed for its source. Sure, some players or coaches are easily recognizable, but others are not. It’s not so bad of course when the whole post is about Player X Y or Z, or usually when the uniform number is visible, but this longstanding lack of very relevant information puzzles me. Thanks for any consideration! I love the site.

I thought that was a good feature. Now you have to go to each forum directly. Unless I'm doing something wrong.

Late last week, we moved to a managed ad service. We finally gave up and put the handling of ads and slots to professionals who know what they're doing. Have ads been better for most of you over the past 3-4 days? I know they've loaded more quickly and shown more relevant information for me but I want to get a feel for what all of you are seeing.

Courtesy of @Fire Dan Gladden, we have a slight tweak to reactions on Twins Daily. They asked for a bit more diversity in the reacts and I thought the input was good so we're giving it a shot. We replaced the Like icon with a thumbs up. We added a Love react and moved the heart to that. We removed Yikes and changed it to Disagree. If you have input on this, please give it here.

So things are back up and running but will only be optimized once we get a better gauge on traffic and server load, which will take a week or so. In the meantime, if you find a bug, post it here so we can get working on it (though I expect there will be very few bugs, that side of this transition usually isn't a huge problem).

Recently I have begun to question the effectiveness of the emojis currently in use to respond to posts. I brought this to Brock's attention and he felt this was a topic worth revisiting. I think this is a good opportunity to voice your opinion on a small, but important part of your TD voice. So, with Brock's blessing, I am putting the question out to the TD readers: What emojis would you like to see added or removed from the current emoji structure? 1) No more than 5 total emojis 2) Common sense on your suggestions (no swearing, etc.) 3) Think about ways to help enhance your interactions within comments. The current emojis are: Heart - Like Grit…

I guess I can understand this process, but... The recurring embarrassing gaffes, completely missing obvious new info, really does this place no favors IMO. It makes TD look like amateur hour. I suggest refining the process.

For the past few days I haven't been able to access my profile. Whenever I click on the link to get there I get a 500 error. I also get a 500 error when I click on the link of other users' profiles. Am I the only one having this issue or are others having it as well?

Now that you've all had a chance to play around with the tool, what are your thoughts? Right off the bat, I see two significant issues that I will resolve either later this offseason or for next offseason: - A Save Draft function so you can work on it, pause, and come back to it later before posting - The ability to customize the title a little bit, instead of "UserName's Payroll Blueprint" let users customize it as "UserName's Payroll Blueprint: Sign Correa, Trade Kepler, etc".

Does anyone else have problems with this web site crashing … a lot. I can’t get through a story or a topic without the site crashing 2-3 or more times. Sometimes if I’m posting it will crash 4 or 5 times. Very frustrating. I don’t know if it’s because of all the ads that make it go down, but something needs to be done. I’m using my iPad for reading and posting if that helps. Thanks.

I move some stuff around last night and the site seems a lot snappier now, particularly while hitting submit on a post. Let me know your experiences, particularly during game times or busy times. That's when we were seeing the system bog down the most.

Getting tired of Chief taunting me in private messages he won't make public because he can't perform basic math and doesn't like it when you shove the math down his throat. No, he deletes my posts, and runs off to hide in the private messages taunting me for weeks at a time. I doubt I'm the only one, but I will say it's annoying to be taunted by somebody I can't "Ignore" Some people aren't cut out to be moderators, and Chief is one of them.

Can we get the bullpen usage spreadsheet added to the Twins Resources page? That's such a cool thing you guys do, but you have to find the previous day's game recap to see it. I also think it would be worth including in the game threads, more so than the recaps.

Please forgive me if this is listed anywhere else on the site. Are we allowed to block other commenters from responding (emojis or otherwise) on our posts? I Thanks!

why is there no delete option to my own posts anymore? i can edit to leave a blank post and look like an idiot, but no delete option any longer? .

I’m sorry in advance for putting a certain author here on blast. In the last week, we’ve had articles claiming because 3 players (the same names we read Star Tribune commenters make) left the organization in 5 years, the Twins have a scouting issue. Another article discussing lessons learned from the 2017 deadline, where no lessons were actually discussed. Just a quote from the FO. And the embarrassment of an article calling out Donaldson being the most unlikeable player in Twins history. I came to Twins Daily in previous years to read in-depth analysis to debunk lazy takes that you see in the Star Tribune comment section. Now I can’t tell the difference between…

Some of you may start seeing rumblings about this site and wonder to yourself "why does this look so similar to Twins Daily?" Well, it looks like Twins Daily because, mostly at the request of me personally as a former Wisconsin resident, I wanted to buy a Brewers forum and build it out as we've done with Twins Daily. Since living in Milwaukee for a year just before returning to the Twin Cities in 2010, I've followed the Brewers pretty closely and am quite a fan of the current front office and team. https://brewerfanatic.com/ So that's a thing we're doing now. It has been pretty fun bringing a bunch of new features to a different fanbase and we're really exc…

Any way to keep that from popping up at the bottom of my screen whenever I scroll down?

Love all the info for the Twins on this site & would love roughly the same for the Saints. I understand imbedded in the majority of the articles and topics, they'll be info relative to the Saints players, however, is there a predominate place to look for all things Saints players, or one of the main contributors? Thanks much, Bill

I thought I'd mention this in case anyone else is experiencing it - I've not been able to open an individual post / thread on a mobile browser for about a week or so. For whatever reason, I can 'touch' a thread title (or blog post title) and it does nothing but freeze the browser. I haven't investigated to see if there is a blocking JavaScript process or some other error happening. It's pretty consistent on Google Chrome running on my iPhone 8.

Saw this post from @Mike Sixel and tried myself. In the text box, I put the link in, the twitter post comes up, but when I click 'post', when the post comes up, it's just a link, it no longer embeds the tweet ... something up? Something different we should be doing? @Brock Beauchamp

Hi all, I'll be starting layout work on the 2021 Offseason Handbook in the coming weeks and wanted to get any input and feedback you have from previous versions. Because we didn't release a version in 2020, some of you may not be familiar with the handbook at all and you can find a link to download below. Other than the polls listed above, if any of you have any input for me, please comment below! https://twinsdaily.com/files/category/1-publications/

Hi all - I've been having some trouble with quoting posts recently. Something seems to be "stuck". I can describe the problem pretty clearly and I've also tried a few things on my end to get it fixed but it seems to be something on the TD side. Where can I go for help with this?

I am looking for the location of the page/spreadsheet of the Twins roster with salaries. The previous site had it as a pinned link at the top of the page. Searching for roster and salaries brings up long lists of articles with those terms in the articles and titles. Not exactly what I'm looking for.

I was worried that "Admiral Monkeypants" was going to stick to me forever.

Aaaanndd, welcome back! Twins Daily looks a little different today. Our upgraded software platform understands mobile phones and social media exist in the world. For the most part, it works the same, but now is a good time to remind us all that Twins Daily is more than just daily news about the Twins. It’s a community built on three pillars: read, react and write. You need not participate in all three, but they’re available, and if you’re willing to reach out, you’ll find a far richer experience. So let’s talk about them. Read Obviously, there are the stories. The site was founded by four bloggers, all of whom understood the value of providing unique coverage…

I've written a new blog entry about an improved feature of the site, check it out!

I clicked on my username at the top right, and selected "My Attachments". On that page, I can see various images I posted in the past, and it tells me I am over my quota for space for my attachment images. Fair enough - I'd like to clean a lot of that up. But I don't see any controls on the page to allow me to do that. To the right of each image is the text, "No locations to display. The content may not have been saved yet or may have been deleted." Clearly they aren't deleted because I can see them. Presumably that text is where a button to delete would be. How do I proceed? And since there are several dozen, is there a way that is more efficient and effective than one-a…

I'm going to try to write up some quick-hit tips about how to use the new site. Today, I start with a really useful addition for sports fans: copying and pasting tables!