We've had a few requests for this, so by popular demand... (drum roll)... a "Maximum number of preferred riders" field on ride meetings.

As that box says, "Sometimes the more the merrier. Sometimes not. Use this field to indicate what sort of a group size works here or leave blank for no limit."

Somewhat of a victim of our own popularity, sometimes too many riders show up and this makes what might be a speedy spin take a bit longer. Sometimes though people just don't care (see the regular-ish Terrey Hills night rides) and numbers aren't important.

Of course this means users have to respect each other and not come along when this will mean too many riders. You must make use of the 'You in?' field or none of this will work out as planned.

Enjoy!

The 'new' site is now over 2 years old!

3 cheers for Robin's amazing efforts over the last couple of years, and also to the NoBMoBbers old and new who have made this site what it is.

Some statistics:
- 3,103 posts
- 7-800,000 hits per month (growing by about 10% every month)
- 633 users!

Also - there are nearly 2,000 images on this site!

p.s. How old IS NoBMoB? we had a website for a couple of years running from my personal Internet account, and probably a year before that without a site. So it's closer to NoBMoB's 5th anniversary!!!

As we continue to grow, I've tweaked another couple of features to do with tagging content. This will mainly relate to images I guess, but you can tag just about any content (ride meetings, forum topics, blog entries, etc, etc).

First off, for better or worse (depending on your point of view and how we use it), free tagging is now on for 'site wide tags'. When you post content it is still categorised same as always, just now you can add any number of your own extra tags (making them up on the spot) to further categorise it.

Take the example, Beautiful Day... first off, it's a picture so it must be placed in an image gallery. However, then there's that 'site wide tags' box... hmmm... well, this is a picture of Shano, it's was at a race and an XC one at that so type in those tags, comma separated and bingo. Cool thing about this box is it auto completes, just type 'sh' and wait a sec, and you'll get a drop down list of tags containing that snippet (as I've already tagged something with 'Shano' that would be there).

So now he's famous, Shane has his own term id - this will grow the more that are added.

This fits nicely with the next two additions, the tag cloud and site map. Have a look - first one in particular is pretty spiffy, great visual of where most of the content is.

Coming soon will be the ability to tag content after the author is done (say they took your picture, but didn't tag you, you'll be able to add your name as a tag).

There's been a bit of chest beating lately... people have been throwing a few times for Hot Laps at the poor, overworked admin to update. So... bugger that, it's now all automatic.

First off - content authors can now create a Hot Lap Challenge. Goes into the moderation queue as usual, but then other riders can chalk up their times. Have copied the old ones, and am sure a few new goodies can be thought of.

Riders can then enter their times as their own Hot Lap. There it goes, straight on the board with no waiting. Now, be honest - everyone can comment on your time so expect a few digs!

Sounds like this could be fun