Open forum day …. any suggestions for tweaking the site?

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• ADS says:

  2 Jan2 January 15:21

  > Does the current format of running a fixed number of stories at fixed times every day – with a ‘lead’ story and two less important ones below – work for you? (Most blogs just post at random times throughout the day, but I am middle-aged and grew up with the newspaper tradition!)

  I quite like the 7am publication time … but I must admit, I haven’t noticed that the three items include a ‘lead’ story !

  • Rob says:

    2 Jan2 January 16:45

    It is only the ‘lead’ story to the extent that I try to run them in descending order of expected page views! I know what subjects and programmes attract the most interest and they tend to go at the top and vice versa. You may never have noticed but I sometimes reorder the 3 daily posts during the day if the one in 2nd or 3rd place is proving more popular than the top one.

• Alan says:

  2 Jan2 January 15:48

  For those who’ve mentioned in the comments that they’re looking for some guidance regarding Tier Point runs – the FlyerTalk guide to this has just been updated for 2015. It’s a pretty comprehensive overview of things and if last year is anything to go by it will also have some pretty good-natured banter in it 😀

  http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/british-airways-executive-club/1642006-ba-tier-point-runs-2015-master-thread.html

• Weereen says:

  3 Jan3 January 00:46

  This is such a valuable tool for finding cheap flights – and I’m guessing finding routes that give maximum points – but it is difficult to navigate your way around it as the google instructions are not clear, for example how to search by airline alliance, where it tells you to add ” / alliance one world ” but it does not tell you the field or show an example. I’ve tried a few options but have had no joy.

  It would be useful to have a guide which clearly shows how to use this useful tool – if this was linked to both avios and tier points it would be fanastic, a one stop shop

• DaveB says:

  3 Jan3 January 00:10

  Hi Rob. As lots of people have ready said, HfP is a GREAT site that has me coming back every day. I only found out about you (and indeed the whole points game) in Feb 14, and have never missed a single post since. Thank you!

  For me, it’s going to be tricky to improve on what you’ve already got – it’s pretty much perfect. The only thing I can suggest is that you reshuffle the menus a little. When I first started, it took me a while to get beyond the Beginners tab, as I didn’t really get what the Favourites tab was about. Is it a beginners’ guide for spending miles? An overview of hotel schemes? A log of all previous posts that haven’t ‘expired’?

  Assuming your platform can support it, it’d be great to split out the Favourites tab (in particular, creating a tab for Spending Points for the “university” series) and introduce drop-downs menus to help you jump to what you want to read faster (eg. each section of the “university” series). Hope that makes sense!

  Thanks again for such a great site. Looking forward to what 2015 brings!

• Andy says:

  3 Jan3 January 00:19

  I love the 3 a day posts, not too many and not too few, just right for glancing through while on the ***** in the morning!

• Waribai says:

  3 Jan3 January 10:13

  Sorry to come late to the party and I’m not sure if anyone has mentioned this already but how about a post where we can add unofficial (legitimate) tips for maxmising stay benefits at each of the the big chains. I don’t mean for example (mis)using employee or corporate codes but rather for example at IHG properties if you ask them to also add your partner or other family members IHG numbers to the stay details ahead of your stay, 9/10 they will receive points too. Just checked out of IC Hua Hin and me and my partner both got the same number of stay points (8k) even though it was booked in her name.
  Also, regarding breakfast on reward stays at IHG, we always just turn up for breakfast, give our room number but I only recall one time when we were actually charged for the breakfast (in Japan where they physically asked for a breakfast voucher before alowing you to enter the restaurant!)

• Paul says:

  3 Jan3 January 12:18

  I think the site is just about perfect. I’d strongly council against forums – They will dilute your style and if it ends up being anything like FT (cliquey, snarky, TP/ex EU obsessed and blind to faults of BA) I would be less inclined to visit HFP.

  I really enjoy your reviews – if you can manage to do more of them or maybe find a guest reviewer who can also write as well you then that would work for me.

• Georgie says:

  3 Jan3 January 13:54

  Keep up the good work. I have been here from day one. I like the early morning nature of the posts. Not sure about having a forum as it changes the essential nature of a blog into something else.

  I enjoy the posts on collecting AVIOS most, and have no issues with the competitions, so not sure they need to be a fourth genre of post on any given day, presumably it isn’t always easy to come up with three articles per day and you need to keep some things in reserve for quiet days.

  Also enjoy your style and the quality of your writing.

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