Frequently Asked Questions

How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

Kyle Deery — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:59:28 GMT

Current Revision posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Kyle Deery on 12/1/2022 4:59:28 PM

How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
How to manage email digests and notifications
How to manage subscriptions
How to manage notifications

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
- Community settings is how the USMS Community platform will notify you of certain events. You can adjust those preferences here. If you’re looking to adjust your USMS email preferences (all non-Community emails), you can do so here.

How to manage email notifications and digests
- You can adjust your email digest preferences within your Community settings page and the "Email Digest" tab.

You can adjust your email notifications preferences within your Community settings page and the Notifications tab. Selecting "Email" notifications will trigger emails to the email address within your Communication Settings.

How to manage subscriptions
- You can adjust your subscription preferences within your Community settings page and the Subscriptions tab

How to manage notifications (both within the Community platform and email notifications)
- You can adjust your notifications preferences within your Community settings page and the Notifications tab. "Live Alert" are internal communications within Community that will show up on your menu bar. Selecting "Email" notifications will trigger emails to the email address within your Communication Settings.

How to Contribute and Participate

Kyle Deery — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:58:29 GMT

Current Revision posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Kyle Deery on 12/1/2022 4:58:29 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to reply to a thread
How to upvote or downvote replies
How to edit or delete your reply
How to quote someone else’s text in your reply
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread. If you want to delete the thread you started, contact an admin and they can delete it for you.

How to reply to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote replies
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a reply.

How to edit or delete your reply
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s text in your reply
- Highlight an existing text and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group (region, national volunteer committee) that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options”

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a thread post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a thread or reply that violates the USMS Community Rules, you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive”

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Contribute and Participate

Kyle Deery — Thu, 01 Dec 2022 16:56:42 GMT

Revision 19 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Kyle Deery on 12/1/2022 4:56:42 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your reply
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread. If you want to delete the thread you started, contact an admin and they can delete it for you.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote replies
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a reply.

How to edit or delete your reply
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s text in your reply
- Highlight an existing text and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group (region, national volunteer committee) that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options”

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a thread post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a thread or reply that violates the USMS Community Rules, you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive”

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

Frequently Asked Questions

N1HWD — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:57:42 GMT

Current Revision posted to Frequently Asked Questions by N1HWD on 9/30/2021 2:57:42 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to Manage My Profile

How to Manage My Friends and Private Messages

How to Manage Community digests, Subscriptions, Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

how do I change my current club?

How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

Steve Hall — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 13:42:51 GMT

Revision 7 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 8/19/2021 1:42:51 PM

How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
How to manage email digests and notifications
How to manage subscriptions
How to manage notifications

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
- Community settings is how the USMS Community platform will notify you of certain events. You can adjust those preferences here. If you’re looking to adjust your USMS email preferences (all non-Community emails), you can do so here.

How to manage email notifications and digests
- You can adjust your email digest preferences within your Community settings page and the "Email Digest" tab.

You can adjust your email notifications preferences within your Community settings page and the Notifications tab. Selecting "Email" notifications will trigger emails to the email address within your Communication Settings.

How to manage subscriptions
- You can adjust your subscription preferences within your Community settings page and the Subscriptions tab

How to manage notifications (both within the Community platform and email notifications)
- You can adjust your notifications preferences within your Community settings page and the Notifications tab. "Live Alert" are internal communications within Community that will show up on your menu bar. Selecting "Email" notifications will trigger emails to the email address within your Communication Settings.

How to Contribute and Participate

Steve Hall — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 17:21:58 GMT

Revision 18 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 4/15/2021 5:21:58 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your post
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a thread or comment.

How to edit or delete your post
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
- Highlight an existing comment and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group (region, national volunteer committee) that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options”

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a post or comment that violates the USMS Community Rules, you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive”

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Contribute and Participate

Steve Hall — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:13:53 GMT

Revision 17 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 4/15/2021 1:13:53 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your post
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a thread or comment.

How to edit or delete your post
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
- Highlight an existing comment and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group (region, national volunteer committee) that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options”

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a post or comment that violates the USMS Community Rules, you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive”

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Contribute and Participate

Steve Hall — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 13:12:45 GMT

Revision 16 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 4/15/2021 1:12:45 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your post
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a thread or comment.

How to edit or delete your post
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
- Highlight an existing comment and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group (region, national volunteer committee) that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options”

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a post or comment that violates the USMS Community Rules, you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive”

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Manage my Profile

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:22:09 GMT

Current Revision posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 8:22:09 PM

How to Manage my Profile

Managing my profile and settings
Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
How to view my Community Profile
How to edit my Community Profile
How to change my Community display name
How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
How to edit my USMS membership information
How to adjust my club affiliation
How to edit my My USMS email address
How to reset my My USMS password
How do achievements work?
When will my achievements appear on my profile?
Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?

Managing my profile and settings
- Within your profile, you will be able to edit both public and private information. The private information is also where you manage your USMS membership information. If you need to change your address, update your name, or change your phone number, you can do it here.
- Within your settings page, you can edit your My USMS login credentials (email address and password), Community presence (what information you want publicly displayed), and communication preferences from the USMS Community.

Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
- You log in to Community using your My USMS credentials. If you need to reset your username and password, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org

How to view my Community profile
- Visit your profile will be able to be found by clicking the circle in your notification bar. This will be a preview of your profile photo that you upload to Community.

How to edit my Community profile
- Once within your profile, you can edit your profile by selecting "Edit Profile". You must hit "Save Profile" for your changes to apply.

How to change my Community display name
- You may adjust your display name while viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode. Your display name is pre-populated with your permanent ID.

Note: Display names enable users to choose a name other than their username to be displayed with their posts and other content. These names do not need to be unique. It can take a while before display names are viewable. In some cases, values attached to older posts will not be updated unless a new post is made or the older post is updated.

How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
- While viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode, you can adjust both your public and private membership information.

How to edit my USMS membership information
- While logged into Community, you can edit your name, address, gender identity, race, phone number, and indicate if you have coaching or other specific swimming interests. (How to edit my My USMS email address is below)

How to adjust my club affiliation
- You cannot adjust your LMSC and club affiliation as there are rules surrounding club transfers. contact membership@usmastersswimming.org or your LMSC Membership Coordinator if you’d like to facilitate a club transfer.

How to edit my My USMS email address
- You can change your email address through your profile, which will bring you to your Community settings page. This email address is what you will log in to your My USMS and USMS Community with and will be the primary source of contact with USMS. Once you update your email address, your old and new email will receive email notifications alerting you of this change. If you get email alerting you of a change but you didn’t make a change, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org.

To manage your contact preferences, see “How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to reset my My USMS password
- You can reset your My USMS and USMS Community password here. You will need access to your My USMS email inbox to successfully reset your password.

How do achievements work?
- Community-based achievements (comment and thread achievements) are awarded instantaneously. Non-Community-based achievements (membership tenure, event participation, Swim.com workouts, coach/instructor achievements) will be awarded the next time you log into the USMS Community.

When will my achievements appear on my profile?
- If you earned an achievement during your most recent visit, the achievement will be loaded on your profile the next time you log in to the USMS Community.

Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
- You can disable presence tracking within your Community settings.

My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?
- You can adjust the visibility of your activity within your Community settings page.

How to Manage my Profile

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:19:11 GMT

Revision 15 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 8:19:11 PM

How to Manage my Profile

Managing my profile and settings
Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
How to change my Community display name
How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
How to edit my USMS membership information
How to adjust my club affiliation
How to edit my My USMS email address
How to reset my My USMS password
How do achievements work?
When will my achievements appear on my profile?
Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?

Managing my profile and settings
- Within your profile, you will be able to edit both public and private information. The private information is also where you manage your USMS membership information. If you need to change your address, update your name, or change your phone number, you can do it here.
- Within your settings page, you can edit your My USMS login credentials (email address and password), Community presence (what information you want publicly displayed), and communication preferences from the USMS Community.

Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
- You log in to Community using your My USMS credentials. If you need to reset your username and password, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org

How to view my Community profile
- Visit your profile will be able to be found by clicking the circle in your notification bar. This will be a preview of your profile photo that you upload to Community.

How to edit my Community profile
- Once within your profile, you can edit your profile by selecting "Edit Profile". You must hit "Save Profile" for your changes to apply.

How to change my Community display name
- You may adjust your display name while viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode. Your display name is pre-populated with your permanent ID.

How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
- While viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode, you can adjust both your public and private membership information.

How to edit my USMS membership information
- While logged into Community, you can edit your name, address, gender identity, race, phone number, and indicate if you have coaching or other specific swimming interests. (How to edit my My USMS email address is below)

How to adjust my club affiliation
- You cannot adjust your LMSC and club affiliation as there are rules surrounding club transfers. contact membership@usmastersswimming.org or your LMSC Membership Coordinator if you’d like to facilitate a club transfer.

How to edit my My USMS email address
- You can change your email address through your profile, which will bring you to your Community settings page. This email address is what you will log in to your My USMS and USMS Community with and will be the primary source of contact with USMS. Once you update your email address, your old and new email will receive email notifications alerting you of this change. If you get email alerting you of a change but you didn’t make a change, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org.

To manage your contact preferences, see “How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to reset my My USMS password
- You can reset your My USMS and USMS Community password here. You will need access to your My USMS email inbox to successfully reset your password.

How do achievements work?
- Community-based achievements (comment and thread achievements) are awarded instantaneously. Non-Community-based achievements (membership tenure, event participation, Swim.com workouts, coach/instructor achievements) will be awarded the next time you log into the USMS Community.

When will my achievements appear on my profile?
- If you earned an achievement during your most recent visit, the achievement will be loaded on your profile the next time you log in to the USMS Community.

Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
- You can disable presence tracking within your Community settings.

My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?
- You can adjust the visibility of your activity within your Community settings page.

How to Contribute and Participate

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:15:20 GMT

Revision 15 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 8:15:20 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your post
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a thread or comment.

How to edit or delete your post
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
- Highlight an existing comment and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group (region, national volunteer committee) that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options”

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a post or comment that violates the USMS Community Rules, you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive”

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Manage my Profile

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 20:12:22 GMT

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How to Manage my Profile

Managing my profile and settings
Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
How to change my Community display name
How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
How to edit my USMS membership information
How to adjust my club affiliation
How to edit my My USMS email address
How to reset my My USMS password
How do achievements work?
When will my achievements appear on my profile?
Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?

Managing my profile and settings
- Within your profile, you will be able to edit both public and private information. The private information is also where you manage your USMS membership information. If you need to change your address, update your name, or change your phone number, you can do it here.
- Within your settings page, you can edit your My USMS login credentials (email address and password), Community presence (what information you want publicly displayed), and communication preferences from the USMS Community.

Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
- You log in to Community using your My USMS credentials. If you need to reset your username and password, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org

How to view my Community profile
- Visit your profile will be able to be found by clicking the circle in your notification bar. This will be a preview of your profile photo that you upload to Community.

How to edit my Community profile
- Once within your profile, you can edit your profile by selecting "Edit Profile"

How to change my Community display name
- You may adjust your display name while viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode. Your display name is pre-populated with your permanent ID.

How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
- While viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode, you can adjust both your public and private membership information.

How to edit my USMS membership information
- While logged into Community, you can edit your name, address, gender identity, race, phone number, and indicate if you have coaching or other specific swimming interests. (How to edit my My USMS email address is below)

How to adjust my club affiliation
- You cannot adjust your LMSC and club affiliation as there are rules surrounding club transfers. contact membership@usmastersswimming.org or your LMSC Membership Coordinator if you’d like to facilitate a club transfer.

How to edit my My USMS email address
- You can change your email address through your profile, which will bring you to your Community settings page. This email address is what you will log in to your My USMS and USMS Community with and will be the primary source of contact with USMS. Once you update your email address, your old and new email will receive email notifications alerting you of this change. If you get email alerting you of a change but you didn’t make a change, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org.

To manage your contact preferences, see “How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to reset my My USMS password
- You can reset your My USMS and USMS Community password here. You will need access to your My USMS email inbox to successfully reset your password.

How do achievements work?
- Community-based achievements (comment and thread achievements) are awarded instantaneously. Non-Community-based achievements (membership tenure, event participation, Swim.com workouts, coach/instructor achievements) will be awarded the next time you log into the USMS Community.

When will my achievements appear on my profile?
- If you earned an achievement during your most recent visit, the achievement will be loaded on your profile the next time you log in to the USMS Community.

Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
- You can disable presence tracking within your Community settings.

My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?
- You can adjust the visibility of your activity within your Community settings page.

How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:10:24 GMT

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How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
How to manage email digests
How to manage subscriptions
How to manage notifications

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
- Community settings is how the USMS Community platform will notify you of certain events. You can adjust those preferences here. If you’re looking to adjust your USMS email preferences (all non-Community emails), you can do so here.

How to manage email digests
- You can adjust your email digest preferences within your Community settings page and the "Email Digest" tab.

How to manage subscriptions
- You can adjust your subscription preferences within your Community settings page and the Subscriptions tab

How to manage notifications
- You can adjust your notifications preferences within your Community settings page and the Notifications tab

How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:07:29 GMT

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How to Manage Community Digests, Subscriptions, and Notifications and Standard USMS Emails?

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
How to manage email digests
How to manage subscriptions
How to manage notifications

What is the difference between Community settings and USMS email preferences?
- Community settings is how the USMS Community platform will notify you of certain events. You can adjust those preferences here. If you’re looking to adjust your USMS email preferences (all non-Community emails), you can do so here.

How to manage email digests
- You can adjust your email digest preferences within your Community settings page and the "Email Digest" tab.

How to manage subscriptions
- You can adjust your subscription preferences within your Community settings page and the Subscriptions tab (link) (screenshot)

How to manage notifications
- You can adjust your notifications preferences within your Community settings page and the Notifications tab (link) (screenshot)

How to Manage My Friends and Private Messages

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 17:01:04 GMT

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How to Manage My Friends and Private Messages

What does “Connect” mean?
How to search Community for another USMS member
How to send a friend request
How to accept a friend request
How to cancel a friend request
How to remove a friend
How to enable and disable private messages
How to create and send a private message
How to view all private messages
Why do I see display name Former Member in Community?

What does “Connect” mean?
- While viewing someone’s profile, you’ll see an option to “Connect” with your fellow USMS member. Using this button, you can either send a private message , ‘follow’, or ‘request friendship’ .

How to search Community for another USMS member
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their permanent ID.

How to send a friend request
- After you’ve searched and located the USMS member you’d like to send a friend request, you’ll do so by first clicking the "Connect" button and then clicking "Request friendship".

How to accept a friend request
- When someone requests your friendship, the request will be in the notification section of the page. From there, you can either accept the friendship request, view the request without action, or decline the request.

Friend requests will remain in your notifications until you accept or decline the request.

How to cancel a friend request
- If you’d like to remove your connection to another member, visit his or her profile page. Once there, click the “Connect” button and then click ‘”Cancel friend request”’

How to remove a friend
- If you’d like remove your connection to another member, visit his or her profile. . Once there, click the “Connect” button and then click ”Unfriend”

How to enable and disable private messages
- Within your Community settings under the Options tab, you can set your preferences on private messages.

How to create and send a private message
- After you’ve searched and located the USMS member to whom you’d like to send a private message, click the “Connect” button and then click"Send a private message"

How to view all private messages
- Your private messages are stored in the message tab in the top right corner of the page. Click ”View All” to display all of your messages.

Why do I see display name Former Member in Community?
- When we migrated the old Discussion Forums to the new format, there were many users who didn’t connect their Forums account to their My USMS account, so we were unable to identify those users as most were not members. To preserve the Forums threads, we needed to assign a single user as the poster of all the threads we couldn’t connect an account to. That single user is display name Former Member.

How to Contribute and Participate

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:39:18 GMT

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How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your post
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a thread or comment.

How to edit or delete your post
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
- Highlight an existing comment and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”

For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a volunteer group for a USMS Committee that I belong to
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options” (screenshot)

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.”

Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a post or comment that violates the USMS Community Rules (link), you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive” (screenshot)

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Contribute and Participate

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:25:58 GMT

Revision 13 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 4:25:58 PM

How to Contribute and Participate

How to navigate Community
How to search Community for my swim friends
How to search Community for a topic
How to start a thread
How to respond to a thread
How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
How to edit or delete your post
How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
How to subscribe to a group
How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
How to mark a post as spam or abusive
What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?

How to navigate Community
- When you first log into Community, you’ll be brought to the home page. From there, you can navigate to your profile, connect with your swim friends, and join in on the conversation in any of the forums. To return to the home page of Community at any time, just click the Community logo in the header.

How to search Community for my swim friends
- USMS members will be added to Community automatically upon registration. Prior to members completing their user profile, their display name will be displayed as their USMS permanent ID. You can use the search bar at the top of the page to type in their full name or permanent ID.

More information on connecting with your swim friends can be found in "How to manage my friends and private messages"

How to search Community for a topic
- Using the search bar at the top of the page, enter your search criteria. This will pull search results from all groups, forums, ,threads, and users. Filter these results by using the tabs underneath the search bar.

How to start a thread
- If you’ve searched for a topic and didn’t find the information you were looking for and you’d like to start a new thread within a forum, use the ”+ New” button in the upper right-hand corner to start a new thread.

How to respond to a thread
- When you’re within the thread, use the ”Reply” button to respond to a thread.

How to upvote or downvote threads or comments
- When you’re within the thread, use the ‘ ˆ ’ and ‘ ˇ ‘ buttons to upvote or downvote a thread or comment.

How to edit or delete your post
- Click ”More,” next to the reply button and select “Edit” or ”Delete”

How to quote someone else’s comment in your response
- Highlight an existing comment and select “Quote,” to quote the highlighted text in the reply window.

How to subscribe to a forum and/or forum thread
- From inside a forum, click the "Turn Forum Notifications On” button to subscribe to that forum and receive notifications. When you’re within a forum thread, at the bottom of the post, click “More” and then select “Turn Reply Notifications On”
- For more information on subscribing to threads or other notifications, see ”How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to subscribe to a group
- Within the group, click the “Email digest options” button. A modal will pop up, and you can also modify the frequency of notifications by selecting ”Email digest options” (screenshot)

How to insert images/videos/files into a thread or reply
- When you’re within a post or reply, you add images/video/files by selecting “Insert.” (screenshot)
- Images, videos, and files have size limitations.

How to mark a post as spam or abusive
- If you find a post or comment that violates the USMS Community Rules (link), you can report the post as abusive by clicking ”More,” next to the reply button, and select “Report as abusive” (screenshot)

What happens if I don’t renew my USMS membership?
- The USMS Community is a membership benefit. If you do not renew your USMS membership, you’ll lose access to Community and won’t be able to access your Community or My USMS accounts.

How to Manage my Profile

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:20:45 GMT

Revision 13 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 4:20:45 PM

How to Manage my Profile

Managing my profile and settings
Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
How to change my Community display name
How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
How to edit my USMS membership information
How to adjust my club affiliation
How to edit my My USMS email address
How to reset my My USMS password
How do achievements work?
When will my achievements appear on my profile?
Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?

Managing my profile and settings
- Within your profile, you will be able to edit both public and private information. The private information is also where you manage your USMS membership information. If you need to change your address, update your name, or change your phone number, you can do it here.
- Within your settings page, you can edit your My USMS login credentials (email address and password), Community presence (what information you want publicly displayed), and communication preferences from the USMS Community.

Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
- You log in to Community using your My USMS credentials. If you need to reset your username and password, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org

How to view my Community profile
- Visit your profile will be able to be found by clicking the circle in your notification bar. This will be a preview of your profile photo that you upload to Community.

How to edit my Community profile
- Once within your profile, you can edit your profile by selecting "Edit Profile"

How to change my Community display name
- You may adjust your display name while viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode. Your display name is pre-populated with your permanent ID.

How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
- While viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode, you can adjust both your public and private membership information.

How to edit my USMS membership information
- While logged into Community, you can edit your name, address, gender identity, race, phone number, and indicate if you have coaching or other specific swimming interests. (How to edit my My USMS email address is below)

How to adjust my club affiliation
- You cannot adjust your LMSC and club affiliation as there are rules surrounding club transfers. contact membership@usmastersswimming.org or your LMSC Membership Coordinator (insert LMSC map link) if you’d like to facilitate a club transfer.

How to edit my My USMS email address
- You can change your email address through your profile, which will bring you to your Community settings page. This email address is what you will log in to your My USMS and USMS Community with and will be the primary source of contact with USMS. Once you update your email address, your old and new email will receive email notifications alerting you of this change. If you get email alerting you of a change but you didn’t make a change, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org.

To manage your contact preferences, see “How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to reset my My USMS password
- You can reset your My USMS and USMS Community password here. You will need access to your My USMS email inbox to successfully reset your password.

How do achievements work?
- Community-based achievements (comment and thread achievements) are awarded instantaneously. Non-Community-based achievements (membership tenure, event participation, Swim.com workouts, coach/instructor achievements) will be awarded the next time you log into the USMS Community.

When will my achievements appear on my profile?
- If you earned an achievement during your most recent visit, the achievement will be loaded on your profile the next time you log in to the USMS Community.

Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
- You can disable presence tracking within your Community settings.

My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?
- You can adjust the visibility of your activity within your Community settings page.

How to Manage my Profile

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 16:08:38 GMT

Revision 12 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 4:08:38 PM

How to Manage my Profile

Managing my profile and settings
Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
How to change my Community display name
How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
How to edit my USMS membership information
How to adjust my club affiliation
How to edit my My USMS email address
How to reset my My USMS password
How do achievements work?
When will my achievements appear on my profile?
Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?

Managing my profile and settings
- Within your profile, you will be able to edit both public and private information. The private information is also where you manage your USMS membership information. If you need to change your address, update your name, or change your phone number, you can do it here.
- Within your settings page, you can edit your My USMS login credentials (email address and password), Community presence (what information you want publicly displayed), and communication preferences from the USMS Community.

Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
- You log in to Community using your My USMS credentials. If you need to reset your username and password, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org

How to view my Community profile
- Visit your profile will be able to be found by clicking the circle in your notification bar. This will be a preview of your profile photo that you upload to Community.

How to edit my Community profile
- Once within your profile, you can edit your profile by selecting "Edit Profile"

How to change my Community display name
- You may adjust your display name while viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode. Your display name is pre-populated with your permanent ID.

How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
- While viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode, you can adjust both your public and private membership information.

How to edit my USMS membership information
- While logged into Community, you can edit your name, address, gender identity, race, phone number, and indicate if you have coaching or other specific swimming interests. (How to edit my My USMS email address is below)

How to adjust my club affiliation
- You cannot adjust your LMSC and club affiliation as there are rules surrounding club transfers. contact membership@usmastersswimming.org or your LMSC Membership Coordinator (insert LMSC map link) if you’d like to facilitate a club transfer.

How to edit my My USMS email address
- You can change your email address through your profile, which will bring you to your Community settings page. This email address is what you will log in to your My USMS and USMS Community with and will be the primary source of contact with USMS. Once you update your email address, your old and new email will receive email notifications alerting you of this change. If you get email alerting you of a change but you didn’t make a change, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org.

To manage your contact preferences, see “How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to reset my My USMS password
- You can reset your My USMS and USMS Community password here. You will need access to your My USMS email inbox to successfully reset your password.

How do achievements work?
- Community-based achievements (comment and thread achievements) are awarded instantaneously. Non-Community-based achievements (membership tenure, event participation, Swim.com workouts, coach/instructor achievements) will be awarded the next time you log into the USMS Community.

When will my achievements appear on my profile?
- If you earned an achievement during your most recent visit, the achievement will be loaded on your profile the next time you log in to the USMS Community.

Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
- You can disable presence tracking within your Community settings.

My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?
- You can adjust the visibility of your activity within your Community settings page.

How to Manage my Profile

Steve Hall — Tue, 30 Mar 2021 15:57:07 GMT

Revision 11 posted to Frequently Asked Questions by Steve Hall on 3/30/2021 3:57:07 PM

How to Manage my Profile

Managing my profile and settings
Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
How to change my Community display name
How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
How to edit my USMS membership information
How to adjust my club affiliation
How to edit my My USMS email address
How to reset my My USMS password
How do achievements work?
When will my achievements appear on my profile?
Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?

Managing my profile and settings
- Within your profile, you will be able to edit both public and private information. The private information is also where you manage your USMS membership information. If you need to change your address, update your name, or change your phone number, you can do it here.
- Within your settings page, you can edit your My USMS login credentials (email address and password), Community presence (what information you want publicly displayed), and communication preferences from the USMS Community.

Are my Community login credentials the same as my My USMS login?
- You log in to Community using your My USMS credentials. If you need to reset your username and password, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org

How to view my Community profile
- Visit your profile will be able to be found by clicking the circle in your notification bar. This will be a preview of your profile photo that you upload to Community.

How to edit my Community profile
- Once within your profile, you can edit your profile by selecting "Edit Profile"

How to change my Community display name
- You may adjust your display name while viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode. Your display name is pre-populated with your permanent ID.

How to edit my profile information (both public and private)
- While viewing your profile in ”Edit Profile” mode, you can adjust both your public and private membership information. (screenshot)

How to edit my USMS membership information
- While logged into Community, you can edit your name, address, gender identity, race, phone number, and indicate if you have coaching or other specific swimming interests. (How to edit my My USMS email address is below)

How to adjust my club affiliation
- You cannot adjust your LMSC and club affiliation as there are rules surrounding club transfers. contact membership@usmastersswimming.org or your LMSC Membership Coordinator (insert LMSC map link) if you’d like to facilitate a club transfer.

How to edit my My USMS email address
- You can change your email address through your profile, which will bring you to your Community settings page (link: https://community.usms.org/user/settings) This email address is what you will log in to your My USMS and USMS Community with and will be the primary source of contact with USMS. Once you update your email address, your old and new email will receive email notifications alerting you of this change. If you get email alerting you of a change but you didn’t make a change, contact membership@usmastersswimming.org. To manage your contact preferences, see “How to manage Community digests, subscriptions, notifications and standard USMS emails?”

How to reset my My USMS password
- You can reset your My USMS and USMS Community password here. You will need access to your My USMS email inbox to successfully reset your password.

How do achievements work?
- Community-based achievements (comment and thread achievements) are awarded instantaneously. Non-Community-based achievements (membership tenure, event participation, Swim.com workouts, coach/instructor achievements) will be awarded the next time you log into the USMS Community.

When will my achievements appear on my profile?
- If you earned an achievement during your most recent visit, the achievement will be loaded on your profile the next time you log in to the USMS Community.

Community shows that I am online. Can I adjust that?
- You can disable presence tracking within your Community settings.

My activity shows on the main feed of USMS Community. How can I adjust that?
- You can adjust the visibility of your activity within your Community settings page.