you give Dylan way too much credit, no way does he have that much clout.
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It was a cloud problem with azure that impacted lots of other applications too. I like trainer road and it’s annoying when stuff doesn’t work but it isn’t really mission critical to design the system to handle when azure has issues. That isn’t cheap or easy to do. Nothing that bad happened
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i’d actually be interested how many people joined the forum since that video.
And the correlation with the number of “controversial” threads.
Not citing anyone, but there are a bunch of days old accounts picking fights…
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Yes. Let me thank you all once again for your patience, and as much as it pains me to recommend such an inconvenient workaround, if you applied one of the plans during the time they were available in incomplete form, I’d re-update to the current version for the time being. When the real new plans are live and available to the public, the process of upgrading to them will be easy, with instructions appearing in-app to do so.
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And the funniest part is they still are too hard.
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I’d need to see how to really dig up hard numbers, but I watch membership numbers often enough to offer a decent guess.
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As of today: 23,982 members
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As of the times I checked over a month ago: around 22,000 members
So, maybe a 10% increase in roughly a month (again, from memory). To be honest, we have seen a bit of a plateau in forum growth in the last 6 months or so. We had around 21,000 in Sept 2020 when we had the forum birthday. That is much slower growth than what we got in the first couple of years.
My guess, we may have seen a small spike in new users, but despite the voracity of posting from those following the DJ video discussion, they was not a massive influx of new users. We did get a few new users that made LOTS of posts in that and the other POL threads of the moment.
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@mcneese.chad That’s quite a big uptick given, as you say, the slightly stagnating numbers over the past 6 months or so. I think a key thing for many to remember though is that it is still probably only a small proportion of the trainerroad user population that actively use the forum, and that forum users are probably not therefore all that representative.
Thanks for your efforts to try and keep the tone of discussions at an appropriate positive level.
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on a slightly different slant, @mcneese.chad, are you aware if the new plans address the need to add more recovery time as you had done and provided elegant instructions? Or will perhaps the combination of new plans and AT (when it goes to open beta or general availability) monitor and balance stress and recovery?
Do I understand it right: there was a cloudbased error and loads of plans have been published accidentally before the official start. Some of us (like me) chose the new plans and have them in the calendar now. In the meantime the unintended updated plans have been reverted back to the old ones until the updated plans are going to be published some day.
Is this correct? I have the new updated SSLV1 in my Calendar. When I wanted to check the general plans I realized that there is quite a difference between “my” plan (new version from this morning) and the SSLV1 being offered right now (being the old version)
I actually like the new version (albeit “incomplete” or “beta”) much more than the previous classical SSLV1. So I will mot update and just go for it. I guess it wont make me slower 
I am not sure on the recovery time. Since I joined the beta, I decided to follow the default work and recovery week layouts and see how the AT handles my progression.
I have seen people ask if AT will recognize fatigue and alter recovery week layouts. I don’t think there is anything in place now. But it may be something they plan to deal with down the line. I haven’t followed that close enough and may be incorrect on even that short summary.
Maybe someone else knows more details they can share?
If you have laparoscopic surgery, which is the standard here in the U.S, you won’t be lying around in bed post-op, and should be able to resume training in a couple of days.
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My GP told me that would be the plan. I have a pre-op appointment with the surgeon tomorrow to hear what the procedure will entail. Holding thumbs that’s the way it will go and that I’ll be back in the game sooner rather than later. 
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My pesky plan foiled 
I do remember seeing Nate and Jonathan doing Garrowby variants so I think to some extent they were following the newly designed SSB plan, I suppose I can go look at one of their calendars and see how their actual training differed from the design
@SeanHurley, thanks for the transparency with the technical issues and the plan for the Plans. With that said, it provided an interesting social experiment to see some of the reactions. It might be worthwhile easing the transition from the “old” plans to the “new” plans by somehow still letting people choose the “old” plans, especially those that really like Mary Austin and Leconte.
Keeping them in an “archive” where they can be added manually to a calendar, not through Plan Builder, might be easiest. Just a thought.
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Excellent, point! I am really glad I could undo the update. Next time, I will wait a bit longer before I update my plan.
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I don’t think MA and Leconte are being taken out of the library, it’s simply that it appears they won’t be in the plans anymore.
You should be able to manually add it to any plan you like.
Or perhaps you mean the old versions of the whole plan?