Constructive criticism

I've just renewed for another 6 months but did think long and hard before doing so, I even trialled some other logs. When I thought about it I realised there's three things I dislike about BT:

1. The glacial rate of progress on adding new features. There's been no shortage of suggestions from the community but a lack of feedback on what's happening on implementation. The last sticky thread I found when I last looked was a couple of years old. How about running through the current development plan now there's a full time programmer? I don't even own an iPhone but seeing the suggestion to write a BT iPhone app dismissed in another thread made me sad.

2. Something in the site eats memory and CPU. I like to leave BT open in a tab in Firefox, and I leave FF open all the time but after a while have to restart FF. This doesn't happen when I don't load BT. I'm guessing it's the Java chart plugin?

3. The design. It's sooo grey. It reminds me of the early days of the web. The graphics are fuzzy (both the toolbar and spot graphics - at the moment there's an awful resized 'Training Q&A' photo on the top of this page, blocky text over a photo of something unrecognizable . Compare ths with http://www.mapmyrun.com- clean, sharp lines,a white a blue scheme, a professional look (and an iPhone app..). I'd love it if a decent graphics designer could be consulted.

In the end I stayed here for a few reasons (a) inertia - I'm used to how the logging works here, and my last year of data is entered here, (b) I didn't find another site that was good enough to make switching worthwhile (though some were close), and (c) I like the plans and being able to import them into the log to do actual v planned.

My wish? Get some VC to invest in the site, employ a designer and programmer and start on BT 2.0.


Just my $0.02.