I just had an idea for a "TR Generator" to simplify the making of TRs. Any ideas on what would make your life easier making TRs would be great.

Interesting question. I did notice that the place had gone very quiet over the past few months.

What I have noticed is that when some of the key contributors go quiet, so does the forum. DB is gone, pinky gone quiet, FT, Tele etc... Some have gotten stiched/married with kids and had their balls removed in the process moved to faraway lands. Sometimes also, some of the threads feels more like a private chat room between friends (nothing wrong with that) rather than a forum in the pure sense. There are a lot of interesting topics out there that are important to us in BC that are never touched here. Be it the recall of an airbag (not many users i know) or an avalung or the topic of RFI affecting beacon operations etc...

I think the niche of this forum is its BC/SC + Local knowledge vibe. Seems it is more Haks-centric though at the moment.

As for TRs.... it's tough man. Theoretically I could post in PN, skitour, camptocamp, SJ, splitboard.com, splitboard.fr, TGR, etc... After a while I just feel like a poser if I put it out in too many places and it is just time consuming. So in the end you just post in places where people seem to appreciate the effort. If you post a TR and nobody is interested then why post another one? Then you have less TRs, then less readers and less likely to get feedback. It becomes a negative feedback loop. Personally I just tend to put my pics in my own website and when my friends ask me then I just give them a link, that's what I have done of late. Also I know there are a lot of knuckle-dragging lurkers (not all lurkers are knuckle draggers) who are just out to get beta and shred your stashes and never contribute anything, I am not sure how you can get around that but that will always kill some of the potential TRs. Maybe different levels of access to view TRs, Beta, etc for ppl who sign-up and contribute. ie snow bunny member has little or no rights, De Le Rue members have access to everything. You get from one to the next based on level of contribution. So in the end the ppl who view ur TRs are ppl who you know contribute themselves to PN.

You could also spice things up with a contest. Worst dressed/fashion member pic, best vista, best action/white room, etc... to motivate ppl to post.

In the end you can never please everybody anyway. Is it such a bad thing if viewership goes down? Is it an end in itself?

Whichever way you take it, good luck!

Just out of curiosity, do you have more info on the stats? Where are most viewers from, etc?

Things I want to see:
1. Chatbox
2. I'm not one for limiting anyones rights, this place needs very little moderation.
3. CHANGE, we've had the same banner and front page foto for years now.
4. weather widgets for resort areas
5. reliable webcam bank (SJ has a good one)

1. upload to facebook button. (i don't use facebook but that might inspire people who do to post here before they post there - at least they will still "own" their own content).
2. bulk photo uploader, preferably inside the acual post window (like wordpress).
3. ability to post with HTML (like wordpress) - makes it easier to cross post.

1. a "like" button, and a "this totally sucks" button
2. more community service initiatives (Goo collection drives, etc)
3. soft porn

NSFW Link

At Soprano's request
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We need more than just forum content and TRs. We need to have relevent Japan info on the resorts.
Picture hosting is good but not really important. Linking through FB is a great tool.

The one problem with using FB as your photo host site is that most workplaces do not allow FB and most people use forums etc. at work

Dude I want to float ideas around but would rather do so in person.

In person is fine but in the forum it may spur others to come up with ideas related to yours.