Re: WY State 22 BPCRA Championship
Posted: Sun Aug 25, 2019 6:52 pm
Cody,
If I'm not mistaken you’re on the 22BPCRA Board of Directors. If so than you are in a position to pass along my opinion on some of the main reasons the 22BPCRA website is not a popular site. Don’t take the following comments the wrong way. I and some of the .22BPCRA members I’ve discussed this with would like to see the website be a popular site to exchange information. With the demise of some of the other BPCR sites including the BPCR.net site, which is on its last leg so to speak, we need as many good sites as possible dedicated to the sport.
Your comment “…kind of quit frequenting it due to lack of anything new” is indicative to some extent about the popularity of the site. I believe that very few frequent it due to the unfriendly software.
The 22BPCRA site is not user friendly. It may be due to whoever set up the site or the software that powers it. Following are just some of the problems:
1) No way to notify anyone when a reply is posted to an interesting thread
2) No search capabilities
3) No usable information in some of the pull-down screens, e.g. the Contact or BPCR Nationals
4) Unable to email the Webmaster, whoever that is, if any problems are encountered such as trying to register or sign on. The bottom of the Match Information screen lists “Email me at: webmaster” which does not work & neither does the Contact screen as noted above.
5) No listing of the Board of Directors or how to contact them. Since the site advertises itself as “Home of 22 BPCR Association” it should do a better job of representing the Association.
Since I have my own limited website, which is not interactive, I know it takes a lot of work and dedication to support and update a website, especially an interactive one, which is certainly why some of the BPCR sites have had past and more current problems.
Remember, DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER”.
Wayne
If I'm not mistaken you’re on the 22BPCRA Board of Directors. If so than you are in a position to pass along my opinion on some of the main reasons the 22BPCRA website is not a popular site. Don’t take the following comments the wrong way. I and some of the .22BPCRA members I’ve discussed this with would like to see the website be a popular site to exchange information. With the demise of some of the other BPCR sites including the BPCR.net site, which is on its last leg so to speak, we need as many good sites as possible dedicated to the sport.
Your comment “…kind of quit frequenting it due to lack of anything new” is indicative to some extent about the popularity of the site. I believe that very few frequent it due to the unfriendly software.
The 22BPCRA site is not user friendly. It may be due to whoever set up the site or the software that powers it. Following are just some of the problems:
1) No way to notify anyone when a reply is posted to an interesting thread
2) No search capabilities
3) No usable information in some of the pull-down screens, e.g. the Contact or BPCR Nationals
4) Unable to email the Webmaster, whoever that is, if any problems are encountered such as trying to register or sign on. The bottom of the Match Information screen lists “Email me at: webmaster” which does not work & neither does the Contact screen as noted above.
5) No listing of the Board of Directors or how to contact them. Since the site advertises itself as “Home of 22 BPCR Association” it should do a better job of representing the Association.
Since I have my own limited website, which is not interactive, I know it takes a lot of work and dedication to support and update a website, especially an interactive one, which is certainly why some of the BPCR sites have had past and more current problems.
Remember, DON’T SHOOT THE MESSENGER”.
Wayne