Swap "Meeting place and time" and "Leader's Notes" on trip listing
A frequent leader pain point is participants who obviously don't read the entirety of the trip listing before signing up and especially before requesting leader permission.
Most leaders will put instructions on information they want for leader permission in the "Leader's Notes" section, but many participants don't see it because it ends up hidden under the "More+" collapse link. Some leaders even make a point in ALL CAPS to try to get participants to click "More+".
I believe that swapping these two sections and making "Leader's Notes" the headline that doesn't get hidden would improve this situation and make it more likely that a participant would immediately see words related to requesting permission and actually follow the instructions. It also doesn't seem a huge problem default hiding the meeting time and place because that information usually comes in the planning email anyway, and participants intuitively know they need to find that information.
Obviously, this could be a confusing change to people who are now used to the current format, so it's understandable if it would be more trouble than it's worth or create objections.
Jon Larson
shared this idea
This idea is changing to "In Progress". While it may cause some initial confusion for those who are used to seeing meeting time and place at the beginning, we believe it is important to prioritize users seeing "Leader Notes" first to further highlight if an activity requires an application, is for a specific group, etc. If we want to further expand the description section to include more text before the "More+" icon we can look into that in the future - but there are some activities where the overall description is very long and it is helpful to keep it minimized for quick viewing.
-
Travis Prescott
commented
Alternatively, or in addition to this, could we not just increase the amount of screen real estate that appears before "[MORE+]" starts eating content?