You can build your outside community by discovering and following other participants in the Outside ecosystem.
NEW users: You can find and follow users and brands by clicking on 'Follow Friends and Brands.'
You can search for users by their full name or username.
Note: If a user's profile does not pull up when searching by full name, try to search by last name alone. If you are unable to find a user's profile, ask your friend to share their profile or username with you.
You can also click on the blue '+' sign button directly from the feed on the right-hand side.
EXISTING users: If you already follow users on your Trailforks account, these followers should be retained for your Outside profile. Conversely, anyone that follows you on Trailforks should already be following you on the feed.
Note: At this time, you may see a difference in followers between your Outside profile and your Trailforks profile. The number of followers you see may vary depending on the products that your followers use. We are working to have parity between the feed experiences, but there will be differences between platforms.
We recommend accessing the feed (requesting and viewing followers) via the platform you primarily use.
What kind of profiles can I follow?
As a user of the feed, you’ll have the option to follow brands (such as RUN, Velo, or Outside), authors, or individual users. By following a brand, you will see articles specific to that brand’s site. By following an individual user, you will see posts from that user, including tracks, rides, or activities that a user chooses to share via Gaia GPS or Trailforks.
At this time, to access a user's profile, you cannot click on the user's profile directly from the feed. Instead, you will have to utilize the 'Search' box on the top-right corner to access a user's profile directly.
How do I unfollow a profile?
If you want to unfollow a profile on the Outside feed, you can do so either through the user or brand's profile itself or on the feed.
On the post, click on the 3 vertical dots next to a post. The dropdown will allow you to 'unfollow' that particular user or brand.
Via the user or brand's profile, you can click on the “following” button. This will remove this profile from the users you follow and will remove that user's content from your feed.
Note: the functionality on the Outside feed will NOT mimic the functionality on the Trailforks feed. For more information on accessing the feed via your Trailforks account, please see this article.
How do I block or report a user?
You can 'report' a user directly through a user's post on the Outside feed by clicking on the 3 vertical dots next to a post. The dropdown will allow you to select 'Report user.'
You can also 'report' a user through that user's profile. You will have to utilize the 'search' functionality to access a user's profile.
You can also block a profile by clicking on the 3 vertical dots next to the “follow” button which will allow you to select “block.”
Note: the functionality on the Outside feed will NOT mimic the functionality on the Trailforks feed. For more information on blocking or reporting users on your Trailforks account, please see this article.