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Levente posts a Bucegi trip on Friday afternoon. By Saturday morning the comments section has six questions: "Will the trail be muddy after the rain?", "Is there parking at Bușteni?", "Can I bring my dog?", "Are we walking back the same way?", "Has anyone been there this week?". Levente answers each one. Everyone reads the same answers. Nobody has to ask the same question on three different WhatsApp groups.

That's what comments are for.

Public, attached to the activity

Comments live on the activity details page. Anyone who can see the page (signed-in members, the organizer) can read them; signed-in members can post. Guests see comments read-only on public activities.

Comments are different from Messages. Messages are threads — direct conversations or per-activity discussion that continues over time. Comments are a Q&A list attached to the trip itself, more like a notice board.

Use comments for:

  • public questions that other participants probably also have
  • clarifications the organizer should answer once for everyone
  • short notes that should remain visible on the activity page (parking instructions, gear reminders, weather updates)

Use messages for:

  • one-on-one conversations
  • coordination that doesn't need to be public
  • anything sensitive

Posting a comment

Open the activity, scroll to the comments section near the bottom of the page. The composer is right there.

Type your comment, tap Post. It appears immediately for everyone viewing the page.

You can:

  • Reply to an existing comment — the reply nests under the parent.
  • Edit your own comment for a few minutes after posting (after that the edit option is gone, to keep the discussion honest).
  • Delete your own comment. The slot stays as "deleted by author" so the thread structure doesn't collapse.

Moderation

The organizer of an activity can hide a comment if it's off-topic, abusive, or just wrong. Hidden comments display as "hidden by organizer" — everyone can see something was hidden, but not the content.

Admins can hide comments across all activities. Hidden comments can be restored by the same person who hid them.

You can't moderate someone else's comment as a regular participant. If a comment violates the Terms of Service, report it from the comment menu.

Offline behavior

If you post a comment while offline, the app queues it locally and sends it when connectivity returns. You'll see it in the thread with a small "pending" hint — others won't see it yet. When the queue flushes, the pending state disappears and the comment becomes a normal comment.

If the activity gets canceled or unpublished while your comment is still queued, the comment stays in your local outbox but is never delivered. The cache diagnostics in Profile > About will surface that.

When something looks off

  • Composer is missing. You're a guest, or the organizer disabled comments on this trip. Sign in or check the activity description.
  • Your edit window expired. That's by design. After the edit window, the only way to change a comment is to delete and re-post — which makes the change visible.
  • A comment shows as "hidden by organizer" but you don't know why. Ask the organizer directly via Messages. Hidden comments don't include a reason in the public view.
  • You see the same comment twice. A network hiccup during the send. The duplicate disappears on the next refresh.