For race directors

The event wall & announcements

Every event has a Community Wall where athletes post, ask questions, and cheer each other on — and a separate announcements channel for official word from you. You moderate both.

The Community Wall

The wall is your event's social surface. The event page shows a preview card with the latest few posts and a See all link to the full wall at /event/your-event/wall, where there's a composer and the whole feed. Each post has its own page for its comment thread, so a busy conversation gets real room instead of a popup.

Anyone signed in can post, comment, and like. Signed-out visitors can read; tapping an action prompts them to sign in.
Posts can be tagged as a Question — a small "Q" badge that flags them for you and the community to answer.
Posts support @-mentions; tagging someone notifies them.
Pinned posts float to the top of the feed.

A new top-level post can send a push notification to people subscribed to your event — each athlete controls their own level (everything, directors only, or off). Comments and replies never fan out to the whole event; they only notify the people in the thread.

Turning the wall on or off

The Community Wall card on your event dashboard's main page has two choices: Community Wall (the default — the full posting experience) or Off (no wall at all). Someone who lands on the wall URL of an event with the wall off just sees a friendly "no community wall here" notice.

Director announcements

Announcements are separate from the wall: official updates only you and your co-directors can write. Open Director announcements in your dashboard sidebar to post one — a title plus a rich-text body (formatting and images). You can pin, edit, or delete announcements at any time.

How athletes get them:

They appear in a Director updates section on your public event page — each shows its title with a "read more" that opens the full announcement.
Everyone who bookmarked your event (and your co-directors) gets an unread badge on Director announcements in their own sidebar — an inbox collecting official updates from every event on their calendar.
A new announcement can also reach athletes as a push notification and on their feed, depending on each athlete's own notification settings.

Announcement or email?

An announcement lives on your event page and in athletes' in-app inbox. For something everyone must see — race-week logistics, a schedule change — send it as an email too, from the email builder.

Moderating the wall

As a director you're a moderator of your event's wall (Run This admins are too):

Delete any post — removes the post along with its likes and comments. It can't be undone.
Remove any comment in a thread. Authors can also remove their own posts and comments.
Pin or unpin a post to hold it at the top.
Athletes can report a post they didn't write, and obviously abusive language is blocked automatically at posting time.

How athletes reach you directly

Not everything belongs on a public wall. The event page has a Contact the director form — name, email, subject, message, no account required. Submissions go to the event's lead director by email (replying goes straight back to the sender) and as an in-app notification.

There's also an optional nudge: with "Ask a question" popup turned on (in your event's other options), desktop visitors who've been reading your event page for 30 seconds see a one-time prompt offering to send you a question — it opens the same contact form. Each visitor sees it at most once.

For public questions, the wall's Question tag works well — the answer helps everyone, not just the person who asked.