We’ve got forums! I’ve been holding back on this announcement because I didn’t want to waste your time if they didn’t pan out. But after launching quietly at the end of March, today we’ve passed the 100-user mark on the new BikePortland Forums and that gives me the confidence to officially announce them here on … Read more
Hi everyone. A quick break from our regularly scheduled programming to share some housekeeping news: We’ve just made a major upgrade to our commenting system. You know how much we appreciate and value your voices, so this is super important upgrade for us. Our current system needed to go. After 474,185 comments in the past … Read more
Can you believe this site started with an innocent, 100-word post about biking to an ice cream shop with my wife and daughter 15 years ago? I can’t. On April 8th, 2005 I hit “Publish” and had no idea I would spend nearly every day of my life for the next 15 years thinking and … Read more
3) There is, and should be, no such thing as unanimity.
Any room becomes a special place when it’s full of people you love and respect.
10 bike blogging years. Dang.
Results from our recent reader survey: 49% say comments are their “least favorite” part of the site. I want to share a few things regarding comments here on BikePortland. Regular readers know that my efforts to foster quality, productive, and respectful comments has been (and will continue to be) a work in progress. I place … Read more
Howdy folks. Please excuse this brief break in your daily news coverage… We’ve launched our first ever reader survey and we’d really appreciate your participation. Take the survey here.
Thought I’d take a minute to remember five years ago today, when I wrote my first blog post about biking in Portland. Back on April 8th, 2005, I emailed some text to an editor at OregonLive.com (the website for The Oregonian newspaper) and they published what became the first post on their “Bike Fun” blog. … Read more
