Stories Section Trashed!

It seems to me that either Club Together is not considered important enough or that the Club is unwilling to invest the money to remedy the many problems that still exist and those new ones that seem to occur on a daily basis. Putting aside the Rebrand which is nothing to do with Club Together they have clearly suddenly invested a great deal of money in Facebook and Twitter where we never had a real presence before and that seems to have taken priority over Club Together. You have to ask yourself why? It just seems that Club Together is a fire fighting exercise rather than making a concerted effort to get on top of things. They need to be prepared to spend the money, not only on the flaws in the system but also providing the features that we need. The simple thing of posting a photograph from all platforms in a size that can be seen without a magnifying glass would be a start.

David

I could live without CT, and don't use TwitFace at all. However, if I was a new, prospective tourer, looking to join, the website as a whole does not give a good first impression. Clunky, unreliable, not easy to navigate, seems incompatible with Apple devices at times.......the Club has literally fallen at the first hurdle in this respect. Which makes a mockery of all the reaching out to the next generation of members, they have visited, given up in frustration and moved on elsewhere. 

If I was new on CT, using a phone as many do, I wouldn't understand the set up. The stories bit would be a complete mystery if I tapped into past authors, it's a complete mess. 

David I agree with what you're saying BUT whilst CT is probably well down the list for improvements I have seen nothing or little to assist CL's. All the points raised way back in mid December seem to have been ignored or badly tinkered with. There hasn't  been decent explanation from IT, I know they themselves don't comment, but Rochelle and Rowena have on the snagging list. Then only along the lines of an update is being tested we'll let you know when it's launched. Even the drop downs when using a computer, I believe an early fault on the original CT, hasn't been sorted 😢. Several months on from the launch of the new website and it still has very basic flaws. 

Having devised a way of inserting photos into 'stories', I may persevere with another story. Adding photos from external photo storage should mean that they can't be corrupted - I hope!

I also hope that the IT maintainers don't try to block my access in a fit of pique

DavidKline, does it cost them a lot, cash wise, to focus on Facebook and Twitter?

Staff also probably find the superior response times and stability far easier to cope with than CT😂

I suspect that it is more labour intensive compared to CT as there are only staff monitoring it and they wouldn't want anything to appear on there that would be detrimental to the Club so it would use more resources compared to CT where we have volunteer moderators.

David 

I am sure the Marketing department will come up with "positive"comments to explain that the cost of the add staff time "costs"that is required to monitor the "other"social medias has been "costed"and the benefit from them far out ways anything that we had in the past