General Feedback
This forum is for you to share ideas and exchange feedback with Mountaineers members, guests, volunteers, and leadership. You may vote for or comment on any idea and will be notified of its status changes. Your feedback helps us prioritize projects and improvements for our organization.
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Trip reporting issue inverting images
It is most frustrating that the website inverts pictures sometimes and there is no recourse. Not sure what can be done about this but it would make filing trip reports faster and easier if the system worked more smoothly and without frustrating glitches like this. Also, improved support for smart phones would be nice so things worked more smoothly on these devices. Many of us don't use computers much anymore and it's frustrating when you have to turn your phone sideways to see the full contents of a field or for an onscreen button to work.
1 voteThank you Doug for sharing this feedback/idea. I have taken a look at your most recent trip report and saw the inverted photograph. Once a photo is 'loaded' upside down, there is no way in the website to flip the photo. I was able to download the photo, flip it, and re-upload it which worked but ideally the photo should not flip upon load. To help me understand what may be going on with the initial load (and see if we can prevent such a use case in the future), can you share the original photo you uploaded for me to test with?
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POST THE TIME OF EVENT PRIOR TO SIGN UP
So many activities don't have a time posted for when the event starts. I have to wait till I get an email to see the time and then have to cancel if I'm not available. Why is this happening?
1 voteHello Mike -
Thank you for reaching out with your idea! I had a quick clarifying question - are you referring to Mountaineer's Events or Mountaineer's Activities? If you could share an example that would be helpful!
Devin Lampe
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Update All Forms with Rich Text Fields
Most forms on the website today use a Text field instead of Rich Text. For Equivalency applications and other long forms, this makes it difficult for the intended audience to read the submissions given all formatting is removed.
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Develop Location Filters for Event Calendar
This feedback pertains to the functionality of the event calendars that manage physical space allocations at our program centers.
One of the current challenges is the difficulty in quickly assessing space availability. The process of manually reviewing each event on the calendar to identify when a particular room is free is inefficient and tedious.
To address this, I would like to propose the implementation of a filtering feature. This would allow users to select one or more specific spaces and view only the events scheduled within them. By isolating the schedules for particular rooms, we could instantly see when they…
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Remember me on login
I frequently need to login to the mountaineers website, sometimes multiple times per day which is a bit annoying. It would be great to have a remember me checkbox to persist the login.
It appears this was a feature until 2023 https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/15859615-remember-me-function-on-log-in-page-is-broken-gh20
And a 2024 post was declined without reasoning https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/47641436-keep-me-logged-in
It would be great if an explanation could be given on why this isn't possible, or options for how some login persisting could be supported.
1 voteHello Jacob -
Thank you for reaching out! I am happy to provide the historical context that I found and a proposal for next steps. The "logged in" feature was a built-in feature of the platform our website is built on. When we upgraded our platform late 2023/early 2024 it was removed because the latest version of the platform no longer stored these credentials for security reasons. The ticket that was closed, mentioned a session being active for a period of time, but I believe that only works if the window/tab is not closed. That idea was closed by me in July as part of a clean-up process and I appreciate that the lack of description as to why it was closed was missing. I have worked to provide more details to members since then when closing/completing ideas.
As for next steps, I have a monthly meeting with our external…
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Show leader notes again when requesting leader permission
Many times, people don't read leader notes when requesting leader permission.
Perhaps the leader notes could be shown again when requesting leader permission to ensure that people read them.
The leader notes may contain additional pertinent information about the activity which participants should consider when requesting permission, or may contain specific requests for information, so requests missing this information end up being incomplete.
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Leader permission requests should go to co-leaders and mentored leaders as well
Currently, even if an activity with leader permission has a co-leader who is an admin and a contact, that person does not receive leader permission request emails.
The same would apply for mentored leaders.
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Rate Hike Preferences
I get daily emails describing upcoming Mountaineers hikes but for the most part they are too challenging or too long for me. I joined GoHike this year to find out about shorter hikes. I prefer hikes that are less than 10 miles. I think if would be great to be able to choose in preferences: Hikes less than 10 miles or Hikes greater than 10 miles/ strenuous.
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Notifications based on saved searches
The current method of defining notifications is basic and, simply put, inflexible. It is possible to get notifications based on varies high level criteria (e.g. branch, activity type) but that doesn't mean that the notifications will be meaningful since there are many criteria that can be filtered on in the activity search. It should be possible to create search criteria and save those such that you're notified any activity that matches that criteria. This would save people time by since they won't need to manually filter the activities in the notifications based on this additional criteria.
This would supercede https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/49808195-alerts-notifications-preferences-for-audience…
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"Subscribing To" or "Liking" a Newly Posted Activity To Receive Updates About It
The activity email notification is great but often times it notifies me of activities that have been posted but are not open for registration.
It would be great if I, as a hopeful participant, am notified about an activity I'd like to register for at some point. If I could "like it" or show interest by "subscribing" to the activity that way I can get updates if anything changes regarding the activity (e.g., roster fills, registration date changes, trip cancelled, etc.). The number of "likes" or "subscribers" could be visible on the activity page to notify other participants of levels…
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Notify course participants when new field trip/lecture within the course is posted
Once a course is live, leaders can add new field trips and lectures to the course offering. However, participants are often unaware of these additions unless course or activity leaders notify them manually through email or other channels. The Youth Team is currently exploring solutions to automatically notify course students when new activities are added. This system could eventually be expanded to adult courses as well, reducing the administrative burden on leaders by ensuring participants are automatically informed via email.
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Alerts & Notifications Preferences for "Audience" Field
Members are able to setup alerts and notifications based on activity type (e.g. "day hiking"), branch, etc. It should be possible to configure notifications based on the audience (e.g. "adults", "20-30 somethings", etc.). This would allow for members to include notifications only for audiences they're interested in.
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Include Badges in the Committee Roster Downloads
Please include awarded badges in committee roster downloads as well. Currently, they are only visible when viewing the committee roster. Adding them to the download would prevent committees (like the Climbing Committee with its many leader badges) from having to duplicate this information in the notes section, resulting in a cleaner look and less manual work.
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Support markdown for formatting all input
The website currently uses a rich text to format all content on the website. This can be convenient for some but it can be frustrating and slow to work with. Markdown is easy to write and understand (https://www.markdownguide.org/). It has become a common option on many websites. Please consider supporting markdown as an option and let users specify it as their default preference so that they can use it without having to select it each time they want to post an activity/comment/etc.
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Allow markup formatting for Carpool Preferences notes
The Carpool Preferences widget provides a "notes" section which allows for free-form content to be provided by the users. This can provide useful information for other participants such as the type of car, passes you have, expected reimbursement rates, etc. A participant may organize this information so it's easily consumed by the reader. The problem is that the formatting is only preserved when viewing the "notes" section in the edit view. When a participant tries to read it, all formatting is removed (e.g. newlines are removed) which can make it very difficult to read the content. This undoes any attempt…
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Viewing profiles from roster on mobile
When clicking through a roster (roster section on the activity, not back-end roster manager) on mobile (android, Firefox or chrome browser), the profile display cuts off half of the profile, including the x button. I need to turn off rotation lock and rotate my display to close out (or hit "back" which takes me to the page I was on before the activity page).
1 voteHello Mckenzie -
Thank you for submitting this idea! You are correct that the user experience is poor for mobile when looking at profiles. I wanted to just call out how to exit that page in the current state so that you can use the work around until a change happens in experience. If you select anywhere on the screen that is not the pop up (grey areas) then the pop up will close. This is a workaround if you do not see the checkbox on your screen.
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Provide more clarity or even a link to let students manage their registration from the course activity page itself
Currently the text under register participant banner is clear but I keep getting emails from students on trying to not able to know the steps on how to manage their registration for course activities.
Suggestion:
(1) Add language more clearly on the steps to follow after visiting the course page such as clicking "Manage Registration" OR
(2) If possible, have the link to manage course registration available on all course activities.2 votesHello KD/Lynn -
We are unable to link the course registration popup directly on the activity - but we can update the language/information provided on the activity registration notice to make it clearer for students. Do you have any suggestions based on what you have heard from students? I think having the action (visit the course page) clearer with either the link there or a button would help ensure people know to follow the link presented to the course page. Thoughts?
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Make it possible to save trip postings in an iPhone without having to turn the phone sideways.
Here's another issue, albeit a small one. I can add folks to rosters with my iPhone but I have to turn the phone sideways to landscape mode in order for the Save button to respond. In other words, when the phone is vertical (in portrait mode) the save button does not respond to taps. Not the end of the world but seems odd.
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Provide for small window of time for conflicting activities to allow member to choose between the two.
The problem I experienced was that I was interested in a particular activity. I figured it would be a popular activity so I wanted to register as soon as the registration opened. When I tried to do that, I noticed the registration window was greyed out and I saw a message that I had a conflicting activity scheduled. I quickly went back to my list of activities and cancelled the one in conflict which had a waitlist of about 5 but I was a confirmed participant (of the two, my preference would have been for the new activity). In the…
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make maximum wind, waves, and current required fields for Sea Kayaking activities
Sea Kayaking activities have fields for maximum wind, waves, and current. Currently these are optional. Because they are optional, some leaders do not fill them in. This omits critical information about how difficult a trip may be. Leaders should think about and enter specific values for each these. Making them required will enforce good practice.
At the 2025 Sea Kayak Summit, we voted to make these fields required, if it was technically possible. This is the request to do so.
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