quote="D37, post: 102703"]I am honestly confused as to what your site is
I had to google what it was about and I still don't understand it.[/quote]
Well it was a simple Idea, it has changed quite a bit recently. It was for people that carried a lot of gear everyday. The idea was how to manage carrying the gear without it getting in the way of what you are doing or to put less strain on you. It also was for those that carried a medium amount a gear and not look like Batman. At first I was getting people that already carry a lot of gear that they use. After the changes I got more and more people that carry gear because it is cool. In the early days it was guys that carry gear related to field work, others where guys that go out and carry stuff to live a month at a time in the wilderness, some others where those that will spend weeks at a time underground. It was anything that involved carrying a ton of stuff with them. The shift is to the guys carrying a lot to be prepared for the unknown which is fine, It just does not create the same revenue for me.
I actually didn't expect the forum to grow. I threw it out there thinking it would never ever get 100 members. I was not surprised when people that knew me personally joined after I told them about it. When they started telling their outdoors friends from other states about it and they spread the word to other clubs and it started growing. I was the most surprised when it became a real crowd.
I guess my target audience is different than most. Financially my target is predominantly the older outdoors man that is not that tech savy.
The basic feedback I got was keep it simple stupid. The more detailed feedback was I liked it when I got what I wanted with one click, I like it less with two clicks. I am here to read about products, and real life experience with them.
Some comments that I got was that the search made it difficult to find some of the really old threads that had the kind of information they are looking for.