General Feedback
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Warning when you click "Copy E-mail Addresses" if you have private and public profiles checked
The Mountaineers has a policy that if you are emailing people with a profile set to Private, you should put them in BCC. It would be helpful if the site gave a warning pop-up when you have selected both public and private profiles and click "Copy E-mail Addresses" as the next logical step is that those emails get pasted into a "To" line.
The warning could simply remind leaders that they should put Private profiles in BCC and maybe link to the policy.
I'm not entirely sure if using the "Send E-mail" button will properly sort the emails into the…
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Add to Calendar Link in emails
When you receive an email for an activity or a course that you have signed up for, have an "add to calendar" link in the email
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Learning Pathways
I'm new to the Mountaineers and to backpacking.
My idea: suggested course curricula for people like me.
Why?
I'm overwhelmed by the choices on the website (congrats, you have great programming, but I'm stuck).
I don't know what to take first, second, etc. I don't know what I need at all. I don't know who to ask.
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Remove volunteer ages from Committee Meeting rosters
A few months ago the ages of volunteers started showing up in the rosters for committee meetings (see screenshot). I'm guessing this may have been added to support youth, but most adults consider their age to be private information.
Event rosters are viewable by anyone who has admin access, and it's common for many committee members to have admin access for various reasons. For this reason, committee rosters are basically public to the committee. Publishing everyone's ages does not seem appropriate.
This does not seem to be a problem specific to committee meetings. Most adults do not want the age…
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Provide more detail for course-related activities in 'Manage Registration' signup box
Right now when you click on Manage Registration for a course related activity all you can see in the signup box is the name of the activity, the date, and a Request Leader Permission link. We have different mentors posting these activities for their students but the leader of the activity isn't visible in the signup box (plus the formatting is terrible). The students have to flip back and forth between the activity listing imbedded in the course and the Manage Registration box to know who they're signing up with. Would be great to have everything that a student might…
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Map units in feet
Wouldn't it be cool if the maps on the website displayed elevation in feet rather than meters?
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Org-wide Award Badges
We'd like to explore options for giving committee members the ability to self-administer org-wide award badges. Currently the only volunteers who directly manage badge rosters are branch admins for their award badges. That said, we have some award badges that are org-wide and we'll have to think about how we might allow a group of volunteers to manage that.
Example is the Climb Leader Emeritus badge: https://www.mountaineers.org/membership/badges/leader-badges/climb-leader-emeritus
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Website access from Germany
The site seems slow from Germany.... I travel a lot but access from California is good. However from abroad it sometimes takes 3 minutes to load the homepage.
Regards,
Rolf1 vote -
Add "Submit Incident Report" to Lodge stays
Add incident reporting button to lodge stays. Lodges have their own inherent dangers, like falling out of bunks, falling down stairs, sliding down hills out of control, or having a bench fall over on someone's foot while she vacuums.
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Email Incident Report Link Instead of Deatils GH3753
For increased security, instead of sending all the details of an incident report, send a link to the incident report that was submitted. The incident report link should be sent to:
- Safety Committee Admins
- Chair of sponsoring branch
- Chair of sponsoring committee
- Leader of activity
- Report submitter
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Limit use of low contrast fonts
I have a big, but I think important ask. My vision is not crisp, in fact worse than that. In order to read text, I require fairly high contrast. When light grey font is used, it is a blur, even when enlarged, to me and others with less than acute, young eyes. The Mountaineers Templates use quite a lot of light grey font and it is not editable. When doing web design for the Mountaineers, could you please consider making it a point to use black font on light backgrounds or white on dark backgrounds so that we all can…
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"leader permissions" is a broken system - fix it
The Leader Permissions system is broken, the opposite of inclusive. There are plenty of ways to fix this to be fair to skilled, conditioned members that are otherwise "unknown" to a trip leader.
I would think the existing exclusionary, reject-by-default approach is reprehensible to the Mountaineers and activity leaders alike, if the main mission of the Mountaineers actually matters: "our mission is to enrich the community by helping people explore, conserve, learn about, and enjoy the lands and waters of the Pacific Northwest and beyond"
Rejecting by default any member "unknown" to a trip leader shows systematic disregard for that…
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Show plain text from PDFs instead of empty page with PDF link
Look at the results of this search: https://www.mountaineers.org/search#SearchableText=behavior&path=%2Fabout%2Fvision-leadership%2Fboard-of-directors%2Fboard-policies
Every single result is a link to a page that contains nothing but a PDF. This is lousy for SEO, which means you likely don't find what you're after using a search engine and it's also a lousy mobile experience. Extract the text from the PDFs and put it on the web page. Even badly formatted text is better than "only available in this PDF."
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Add profile link to roster
There is a companion issue that made names clickable in the roster on the website: https://feedback.mountaineers.org/forums/273688-general-feedback/suggestions/8764993-make-names-on-roster-open-their-profile-so-you-can
Here, I would like a column added to the CSV roster export with the link to someone's profile. There's currently a column for whether the profile is private or not, but no column with the actual profile link.
This would serve the same purpose as the clickable name. In Excel, it will detect that these are links and make them clickable. That makes it easier for me to navigate to someone's profile.
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Show enrolled courses in course roster CSV export
As a course administrator, I often need to know if students are enrolled in their co-requisite courses so I can send them appropriate reminders. In some cases, such as scrambling, we actually bump students off the roster who don't have or enroll in Wilderness Navigation before the course starts.
With the course roster CSV export, I can determine if someone has already completed Navigation. However, there's no way for me to know if someone has is enrolled in the course without manually going to every student's profile and checking their course list. This is as abysmally slow as it sounds.
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Add the option to have hosts notified by e-mail when people register for a lodge stay
I would like the ability for hosts to elect to receive E-mails when a new person registers or cancels a lodge stay.
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Include difficulty in notifications of activites
It would be helpful if notifications could be filtered by level of difficulty as well as by type of activity and location. Ideally, one could set different levels for various activities - e.g., easy for hiking, difficult for sailing, and moderate for skiing.
There was no "Technology" category for feedback so I made my best guess. If this should be categorized otherwise feel free to change it.
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Donor affinity checkboxes
Checkboxes to track donor affinity across major fundraising categories to ensure people can hear about the impact and opportunities that mean the most to them. For internal use only - no plone integration.
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Dietary preferences in user profiles
Our active members sign up for numerous events. Every event that includes food requires then to tell us their dietary needs. Again. And again and again. Their dietary needs rarely change, so it's silly that we force them to keep telling us the same thing.
Member profiles/preferences should have that data and it should automatically populate all activities / events / stays where food is served.
Two settings should encompass 99% of use cases. A radio button to select a dietary preference from: (any / mediterranean / pescatarian / vegetarian / vegan), and a free form field to express food…
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Splash Page for Course page/applications
The Mountaineers course pages do not have a feature that displays when the application period is or when an application period closes. The current process is to put the application period in the text/leader information about the course, which is often not seen by interested folks. In the last 3 years, some 1 course see anywhere from 4-15 people asking to register after the posted registration date because they did not read or see the leader notes.
This is not a unique problem as many other course have the same issues, especially the high demand courses. This is resulting in…
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