Reply To: is it just me….

[opposedtwin]

Well, I have been waiting for someone to bring up this topic. This new site is just awful. The teeny tiny letters in an ocean of white is enough to make me not even bother looking at all the topics. It’s actually taxing to get through a thread. My first impression when it came on line was “well this will be the deathknell of this club”. I hope I’m wrong but I bet we lose a bunch of the older crowd. And if there was a goal of attracting the younger facebook types, I would be surprised if we’ve reached any at all. This site is essentially void of any humanity. There is zero color and contrast (white background with reply boxes of a grey so light you barely know it’s there), nearly no pictures of old outboards and very little activity of any relevance.

The users and members have been plenty patient. This was in the works for months and it should be way further along than it is. I have no idea what people wanted in the survey. Did the EC ever disclose the results?

Did we hire a service to design this new site or is it exclusively built by our volunteers? How much money did we spend to get to this point?

I could go on but I’m quite sure I’m already the black sheep of the club by this point.

I hope it gets better (and yes, we’ll continue to be patient because we really have no alternative) and in the end is everything we wanted it to be. I just hope the feedback we’ve given is taken for what it is and that efforts are made to address the shortcomings some of us see.

“Shoot if you must this old grey head…”

Scott Braaten