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    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Got a link to yet another MLife survey from RJ and BPL.

    Dear BPL Lifetime Member,

    We have started the process of scoping out the next version of the backpackinglight.com website.

    Please help us with our direction during this initial phase by completing this short survey:

    http://goo.gl/forms/AmmdatjTZK

    Best Regards,
    Ryan Jordan
    Founder & Publisher

    Here are the questions being asked.

    What are your favorite websites overall, and why?

    What is your favorite website in terms of aesthetic appeal / ease of use? What do you think are the primary strengths of this website?

    What is your favorite website in terms of its community / forum / article commenting features? What do you think are the primary strengths of this website?

    What features of the current backpackinglight.com website do you consider as STRENGTHS that we should retain into the future?

    What features are currently MISSING from backpackinglight.com that you would like to see in the future?

    Discuss.

    I have not yet submitted my answers. I'm sure some of you out there have some spectacular questions and suggestions.

    #2174043
    David Ure
    Member

    @familyguy

    What features are currently MISSING from backpackinglight.com that you would like to see in the future?

    A Staff.

    The End.

    #2174115
    Tony Wong
    BPL Member

    @valshar

    Locale: San Francisco Bay Area

    Ken,

    I saw it too and spend sometime filling out the survey, which was a very abbreviated list of suggestions that I had a few years ago.

    I always have hope for BPL becoming better and I do applaud them for reaching out to the community for input.

    I was disappointed by the lack of response to the thoughtful suggestions that people had a while back….can't remember if it was a year ago or longer.

    Anyway, hope that this goes well for BPL.

    I suggested better search….a completely redone home page that appeals to newbies/novices.

    Core articles that are rotating frequently about the Big Three….to answer the question: What is UL/Lightweight Backpacking and how do I get started? (Which is the likely reason why someone comes here for the 1st time).

    I would like to see links at the bottom of the articles that will link me to prior ones related like SOTM issues…..or the Weekly Newsletters….at the bottom have quick links to the prior ones.

    Wealth of information here that is not easily accessible/found.

    Had others, but just a quick sample of what I suggested.

    Tony

    #2174154
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    We never heard anything about the results of the last survey. Wonder if we will this time. Why only MLifers being asked?

    Tony, good to see you post. Always positive. We missed you at the G.G.G.

    #2174157
    M G
    BPL Member

    @drown

    Locale: Shenandoah

    Lifetime member here. Have not received any request from Dr. Jordan or anyone else.

    #2174158
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    Yeah, I thought I must have just deleted it, but i don't remember getting an email for a survey either.

    #2174159
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    That seems to be not uncommon M G, Doug. That' is why I post these things here. There is a link above in the now attached email that I received.

    #2174174
    Bob Gross
    BPL Member

    @b-g-2-2

    Locale: Silicon Valley

    Ken, the purpose of a survey is not always to gather opinions.

    Sometimes it is to make the members feel as though their opinions count, especially when other evidence shows that it doesn't.

    –B.G.–

    #2174244
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    I know Bob.

    This is not the first survey/

    #2174247
    Jerry Adams
    BPL Member

    @retiredjerry

    Locale: Oregon and Washington

    "Sometimes it is to make the members feel as though their opinions count, especially when other evidence shows that it doesn't."

    If you decide to do something, and then ask people's opinion and everyone's against it, and then you try to convince people, it's really annoying.

    Better to just do it.

    If the web site is useful, people will keep using it.

    BPL is not unique…

    #2174258
    Stephen M
    BPL Member

    @stephen-m

    Locale: Way up North

    I have not bothered to read any mail from Bpl in a long while
    as it only adds to my disappointment

    #2174260
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    "I have not bothered to read any mail from Bpl in a long while as it only adds to my disappointment"

    I'm the same way with email from Match.com…

    #2174386
    JP
    BPL Member

    @jpovs-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2

    Locale: Arrowhead

    #2174438
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there
    #2174488
    JP
    BPL Member

    @jpovs-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2

    Locale: Arrowhead

    #2174497
    Bob Bankhead
    BPL Member

    @wandering_bob

    Locale: Oregon, USA

    Ken's link works for me.

    It goes to Ryan's 2011 thread "Exploring the Future of BPL". It's 9 pages long.

    #2174510
    JP
    BPL Member

    @jpovs-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2-2

    Locale: Arrowhead

    #2174582
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Thanks Bpb. That thread has a lot of great ideas in it though. I believe it is the thread that Tony mentioned above.

    I don't think the questions are very good. I find them a little vague.

    I don't participate on any other forum, or read any other backpacking site.

    #2175005
    BlackHatGuy
    Spectator

    @sleeping

    Locale: The Cascades

    I was wrong. I did get the email, but it went to my junk mail folder so I didn't realize I had it.

    #2175008
    David Ure
    Member

    @familyguy

    "I did get the email, but it went to my junk mail folder…"

    Certainly appropriate.

    (Drops mic; walks off stage)

    #2175655
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Just a bump for those who might have missed it. I do not know how long the survey linked in my OP will be up.

    Don't waste an opportunity to tell it how you see it.

    #2230964
    Ken Thompson
    BPL Member

    @here

    Locale: Right there

    Hey there BPL. So any update on this?

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