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Partner forums — showcasing Biketime

Partner forums is a showcase inside Community for discussion happening on forums we partner with. First — and currently only — partner: Biketime (forum.biketime.ee), an independent Russian-language cycling community based in Estonia.

URBALT's take here: we're partners, not competitors. We're not trying to pull Biketime's community onto URBALT or republish their content as our own — we're pointing people toward a good, established forum and making it easier to discover.

How it works — two steps

  1. Browse the showcase. The list shows topic headlines mirrored from Biketime: title, author, forum section, and roughly how long ago it was posted. Clicking a topic keeps you on URBALT — it opens an internal detail page with the full title, author, section, date, and — when we have it cached — the original post's text.
  2. Read & reply on Biketime. That detail page has a clearly labeled button, "Read & reply on Biketime". Clicking it opens the real thread on forum.biketime.ee in a new tab. That's where you read replies and post your own — Biketime's forum, not ours.

Older topics — from a one-time import of Biketime's full archive — sometimes show "no preview available" instead of post text. Only recently-polled topics have the full post body cached; older ones are headline-only until someone opens them on Biketime directly.

Finding topics

  • Search — type in the search box for live suggestions (top 6 matches) as you type, or press Enter for the full result list.
  • Year — filter chips covering Biketime's history (their archive goes back to the mid-2000s).
  • Section — forum categories like Reports, Marketplace, Announcements. The most common sections show as chips; the rest are under "+N more".

Filters and search combine. With nothing selected, you see recent topics — the last three months, or the 30 most recent if fewer than that were posted recently. Use Show more to page through a filtered list, 100 topics at a time.

Who are the authors?

Every author name is tagged "Biketime" — that's their username on Biketime's own forum, not a URBALT account. URBALT doesn't verify or vouch for these identities; they belong to Biketime's community and moderation, not ours.

Why no reply or view counts?

Biketime's data feed doesn't expose those numbers to us, so we don't show them. We'd rather leave a number out than show something made up or stale.

Is this scraping?

No. This is a formal partnership — Biketime's admin gave written permission for their logo and headlines to be mirrored here. Every card and every outbound link says "Biketime" as the source, opens in a new tab, and the page carries a standing note that reading and replying happens on their site.

What this isn't (yet)

You can't comment or reply to a partner-forum topic on URBALT — that conversation lives on Biketime. There's no cross-posting of URBALT content back to Biketime. And there's only one partner forum right now; more may be added later.

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