Originally Posted by
tuff
I’m a relatively new member and although read a lot of the threads am not a major contributor. Yet. However, I do feel a lot of well-established members have not moved with the times. I don’t think I’ve looked at the home page to understand the original purpose of the site since I joined. The clue is in the title: it is “flyertalk” not “frequent flyer programme talk”. If the threads were strictly about just FFPs the great range of threads would not be allowed (this morning I have already read about macaroni cheese pies at GLA and the BA strike – neither of these are strictly related to FFPs but do form part of the whole flying experience which is what I want to read about).
I have several gold cards from various FFPs but also fly easyJet and want to easily find threads about LCCs as well. To my mind easyJet and Ryanair are different beasts and deserve their own fora.
Websites develop and change. Their members should too.
This well-established member
has seen
this website develop and change and
this forum is proof that still happens. And I would disagree with the contention that well-established members resists change as I only resist change for change sake. Give me what I feel are good enough reasons and you'll have my support for a new forum but IMHO I'm not there yet with the suggestion as made. Were it to come down to creating a sub-forum of the existing
Budget Travel forum strictly for LCC's without FFP's then that would be something I
could support.
FWIW as a relatively new member you may be unaware that there have been
many suggestions for FT to broaden out to become a wider community with proposed forums for dating, photography, private clubs, international sporting/Olympics, spas, health & fitness and many more if you care to browse TB Topics thread titles. FT trying to be all things to almost every member is IMHO a recipe for losing focus on what brought us all here in the first place: travelling and FFP.
And yes, there already is a fairly wide choice of non-FFP/FFM forums so that is more evidence that change has happened here at FT but I see nothing wrong with trying to manage that process for the long-term benefit of the site. As the FT saying goes YMMV (Your Mileage May Vary) but those are my well-established member thoughts on the proposal as made and I would encourage other relatively new members to offer their input on these discussions on this forum as they do help shape the future FT direction.