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Introducing the OpenBeta Forums!

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  • beanB

    Hello there!

    At OpenBeta, we love climbing! We assume you do too, which is probably why you're here. We also love the climbing community: the friends you make at the crag or in the gym who point out the best routes, share gear and advice, and support each other on their projects. We think that the connections we make through a shared passion - whether they last a lifetime or just one climbing session - are part of what makes climbing so special, and so fun!

    We also believe that everyone benefits when information and communication is accessible to everyone. The climbing information in OpenBeta is accessible to everyone via the main website and the free API. While we currently have a Discord server to help facilitate communication and community, Discord servers require a login to join a server and see the discussion, and even then it can be hard to find information if you're looking for a particular discussion thread.

    That's why we're proud to announce the OpenBeta forums!

    @julian, on behalf of NodeBB, has generously offered to host these forums, powered of course by their excellent open-source forums software. We're hoping this can be a great resource and a platform for the climbing community. We encourage users to post guides, ask questions and engage in discussion, share recent trips, and maybe even find climbing buddies to meet up with! This is also a great place to discuss OpenBeta itself to suggest features, provide feedback, and ask questions.

    You can sign up to the forums with your existing OpenBeta or Discord accounts, and then feel free to introduce yourself in General Climbing! Make sure to review the Community Guidelines, but the rules really boil down to "don't be a jerk and have fun."

    As with the main OpenBeta app, the more people that come here and use the forums, the more useful it is to everyone, so please tell your friends! And thanks for being here!

    Signed,
    Your friendly neighborhood Ben

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  • T

    Nifty site ya got here. Anyway to scrape my MP route submissions?

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  • T tradiban

    Nifty site ya got here. Anyway to scrape my MP route submissions?

    devnullD

    Hi @tradiban! Let me ask around. Nice to see you here. Folks on MP say you're a neat guy to climb with, hope we get the chance someday.

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  • T tradiban

    Nifty site ya got here. Anyway to scrape my MP route submissions?

    beanB

    @tradiban What are you specifically trying to scrape? There are legal concerns about scraping the whole site, but I'm sure it'd be fine to import your own content if we have a tool for it

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  • beanB bean

    @tradiban What are you specifically trying to scrape? There are legal concerns about scraping the whole site, but I'm sure it'd be fine to import your own content if we have a tool for it

    T

    @bean just my personal contributions over there, I haven’t dived into this data base yet but would be great to have an alternative to MP

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  • devnullD devnull

    Hi @tradiban! Let me ask around. Nice to see you here. Folks on MP say you're a neat guy to climb with, hope we get the chance someday.

    T

    @devnull call the hotline! 951-527-7959

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  • T tradiban

    @devnull call the hotline! 951-527-7959

    devnullD

    @tradiban latest discussion on the Discord about this center around your legal right to ask Mountain Project to export your contributions.

    If you can get that from them then maybe getting that data into OpenBeta is a possibility, although I'm not part of the development team.

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  • T

    I think my son knows what Discord is!

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    Hello and welcome to the OpenBeta Forums' September update! It's been a pretty wild couple months here as @bean and I try to set things up here. To give you a bit of history, before these forums were re-branded under the OpenBeta banner, it served as a news aggregator for climbing news publications. I was finding that I was missing certain important events (related to the 2024 Olympic qualifier series, mostly) and wanted one single place to check for climbing news. To achieve that, I turned to my old friend RSS (remember that?) in order to proactively pull in content from all sorts of publications, @Gripped, @climbing, @HowNOT2, etc... All of that still remains, and can be viewed in the @news and @videos categories. By August I teamed up with @viet and @bean to re-brand the forums to expand OpenBeta's social reach. The idea of running a forum paired very nicely with OpenBeta's mission to advocate for a free exchange of beta and ideas, as well as an underlying current of maintaining freedom of content ownership. We want the OpenBeta forums to be your one-stop shop for climbing-related news and discussion. Help us make it happen by joining the conversation today! A couple new items this month to introduce: You don't need to actually visit the site to be kept up-to-date. You can register your for push notifications and receive updates straight to your device. This works in-tandem with the in-app notifications, and email notifications/digests. We updated the main homepage to a more "feed-style" concept, which highlights content more than a traditional category/topic layout. There are obviously many opinions on whether this is preferable or not, but in the meantime, the original category listing layout can be found at /categories. N.B. The NodeBB team has generously provided hosting for OpenBeta, and in exchange, we get to test our brand-new functionality before it is released, win-win!
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    Community Guidelines Hi! How are you? Hope you're well! Welcome to the OpenBeta Forums! Our goal here is to make information and communication accessible to everyone in the climbing community. We want to make sure that these forums serve as a welcoming and safe space for everybody to share their passion about climbing, build connections, and feel like they belong. We want this to be a fun place to be! To do that, let's lay out a few ground rules that I think we can all agree on. Conversation should generally remain on the topic of climbing This includes no politics, no explicit content, no personal drama, etc. This also encompass the principle that you should try to make sure your post goes under the right category (e.g. don't share pictures of your recent climbing trip in General, that goes under Pics and trips). Off-topic posts or replies may be removed by the moderation team, but we'll generally just try to nudge the conversation back on topic. No harassment, discrimination, or abuse of any kind Don't be rude, don't insult or talk down to others, and obviously no racism, homophobia, or any other gross things like that. This also means "it's just a joke" doesn't fly as an excuse. Text as a medium doesn't convey tone and sarcasm well, so keep the tone more towards the "friendly and helpful" side of things to avoid potential misinterpretation. Improve the discussion We want to hear your voice! We want you to contribute and discuss and engage with others, and that means what you're saying should contribute to the discussion. As before, if your post is off topic or being rude to someone, that doesn't add to the conversation. If you have a criticism, make sure you're phrasing it in a helpful way and not attacking the person whose idea you're criticizing. Another part of this is that we don't allow AI-generated content. Why should anyone bother to read content that somebody didn't even bother to write? Self-promotion is allowed (in moderation) If you make climbing products or climbing content, we want to support you! Just 2 things to keep in mind: (1) make sure to post it under the right category and (2) add the self promo tag. Products will generally go under General Climbing and content would probably go under either General Climbing (for guides and such) or Pics and trips (for vlogs, photography, etc). That said, obviously don't be obnoxious about it. Making the same post repeatedly or spamming caps or emoji will receive a warning or a temporary ban, depending on the severity. Report problems, don't engage If you see somebody posting off-topic, being rude, or otherwise breaking the rules and causing problems, please don't engage. Just flag the post to send a message to the mod team. Enforcement and appeals At the end of the day, we don't have a huge moderation team or any complicated system of rules. The gist of this all is "just don't be a jerk." The moderation team is made of people who are volunteering their time and doing their best to act in good faith to make these forums a fun place to be. The moderation team uses these guidelines to act at their discretion and we're not going to engage with rules lawyering. If you do have a problem with any mod's decision or behavior, go ahead and make a post here. You won't be able to see the post once it's submitted, but the mod team will be able to see it and review whatever concern or report you've submitted.