Ben Kinney Shared His Perspective At AR Weekly Zoom MeetUp Sept. 1st

Very informative post Lynn!  Great job and I can't wait to check out the ActiveRain University down the line also.

"ActiveRain University, he said, will be re-integrated into the main site at some time in the future". 

Thank you Lynn B. Friedman  for sharing this report with us. It is really good to know so many of you are meeting and helping the overall cause of Active Rain

the fact that Ben Kinney is joining these meetings and working towards making AR better is really positive.  He seems genuinely concerned and motivated to fix it! That is a good thing!

Lynn, Thanks for taking the time to summarize Ben's points.  It appears he has learned some things since his July FB post.  That's a start. His decision to become more hands on could be the saving decision. 3 things:

1. The Zoom meetings with Ben resulted from the June crash, the lost/reassigned blog urls and points.  This has been the main question for two months yet no mention in your recap.  Do we know if these two items are still on his list?  You know the cliche about making assumptions  so don't wan't to presume anything. LOL!  If he makes this right and raises SEO ratings, that's the icing on the cake.

2. If he would scan AR Q&A once a week he would learn a lot about what is not working to add to his list.  Did anyone point out that emailing support@activerain.com is a "nobody home" exercise in futiity.  There must be a half dozen Qs about that.  The member's issue is often financial. The fix according to ARMS is to post your private question in Q&A if you expect an answer and he or whoever ARMS is will forward to appropriate person.  The fix is unprofessional and doesn't work anyway.  Needs to be added to his list.

3.  If Ben posts his list of Fixes To Do in a pinned announcement in Q&A, it would faciliate communication, prevent redundant issues and keep mgt and members on the same page.

Lynn, thanks for sharing this important info with comments from Ben Kinney. I'm happy to hear he plans to address the issues on AR.

Certainly uplifting to hear things are going to be worked through. Thanks for the update.

Thank you for the recap.  I sat in on the Zoom call and it was good to hear Ben has plans to fix areas needing fixing.  A shared list of his prioritized fixes would be helpful.

I have complete and total respect for Ben Kinney. I used to be able to rank a blog on Google quickly with activerain and I expect that day will come again.

Glad to hear some of these issues are being addressed. Hopefully we get a better feel about the implementation schedules in the next update.

Thank you.

Thank you, Lynn B. Friedman 

I have a standing Tuesday Zoom appointment with our broker that conflicts with the AR Zoom meetings so I was not able to join all of you with Ben.

Good information!

I thought the meeting was helpful - it seems he's really on board to fix things up.

Funny though - I've never had an issue with the scheduler - works perfectly for me.

And so for my main concern - it's the awful editor we use to create blog posts. I cringe when they appear totally wonky with whole paragraphs becoming a different font size or suddenly bolded. It's not the user's fault - it's just a mess or very outdated.

A very well written summary of the meeting Lynn B. Friedman .  Ill try to be at the next month's meeting.

Lynn B. Friedman - thank you for the encouraging news!

Thanks for the update. I plan to start listening at these meet-ups in the future.

Appreciate the re-cap but I also hope to hear about how they will remedy the crash! Missing my posts and points.

Thanks for the update Lynn B. Friedman   I was not able to be at the meeting as the time of the meetings is a tough for me as I am not in office at that time.

Is it possible or maybe it is being done...to record the meeting and post the link?  I follow a RE guru who does do that and it helps me. 

I see many of the concerns on this thread that we addressed over a month ago on how, what, and why that Ben explained to us and possible solutions.

Thank you for sharing!!

Sounds like things are progressing Lynn B. Friedman Glad to hear we have a responsible forum owner

Thanks for the update Lynn! I am happy to hear Ben is still committed to 'this site. I don't use it well, but I do love

Thanks for the updates, miss so many of these zoom calls as out with clients. So glad to hear the positive news and outlook and updates since Ben's last visit.

Thank you for sharing this update! 

Lynn, thanks for the update. It's good to haer that thing may come back.