BPL website v2015 survey

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

A Staff.

The End.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.–

I know Bob.

This is not the first survey/

"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…

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

"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…

–

We've been here before,

http://www.backpackinglight.com/cgi-bin/backpackinglight/forums/thread_display.html?forum_thread_id=49780

Edit: Sorry thread is MLife only.

–

Ken's link works for me.

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

–

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.

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

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

Certainly appropriate.

(Drops mic; walks off stage)

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.

Hey there BPL. So any update on this?