Groups Page Reappears on YHA Site
The list of affiliated groups that used to be available (after diligent searching) on the old YHA site has finally found it’s way onto the new one nearly two months after its launch. It falls a long way short of the coverage that was talked about at the Coalport Meeting, but it’s better than nothing.
The list contains at least one error (as I write, the contact email for Leicester group is years out of date), so it’s worth checking to see if your group’s properly listed. As far as I know, the list on this site remains the most complete and up-to-date listing online, if you could check that one as well while you’re at it, I’d be grateful.
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Both the web URL and the e-mail address for Barnet YHA Group had been mis-typed and I reported this.
It seems unlikely that many visitors to the YHA web site will find the Affiliate Groups list. You have to click the not very obvious YHA Membership link at the top of the home page then the YHA membership page has a link to Affiliate Groups on the left but there is nothing on the membership page to tell you what an affiliate group actually is or why you might want to click that link.
On the YHA Membership page, it would be useful if they added something like “You can join an affiliate group of like-minded YHA members in your area”. Actually it’s not really a benefit of membership as nowadays, as you can be a member of an affiliate group without being a YHA member, so this raises the question of why the affiliate groups list is under Membership. I think it would be better under Activities as affiliate groups do organise activities. The Postellers are listed under Activities > For Young People so why not put affiliate groups under Activities somewhere?
Comment by David Lauder — 13 Mar 2007 @ 12:38 am
Personal feeling here that the new YHA website enables visitors to find local groups easier, compared with the old website. Well done yha my only comment is that affiliated groups link should say something like find a group near you. A minor comment.
Comment by Martin — 19 Apr 2007 @ 9:49 pm