In reply to Mick Ryan - UKClimbing.com:
I was not criticising your news section. I for one, think its quite good- being up to date and a usually accurate insight into British climbing. This opinion, isn't however shared by my peers, many of whom i have heard reguarly moaning/criticising this news board. This is what i tryed to state within my post. The generaly perception (from people ive encountered at least) is that the news section is not very good since it has alot of reports, which quite simply are not newsworthy and does not show a a true reflection on what is happening within the climbing circle.
This thread, in my opinion was newsworthy, hence my comment to the person stating it wasn't. Im glad you posted this news- for me it is inspiring to hear- hence my regualar return to your news page, instead of things like climb, which in my opinion represent British climbing terribly.
I also find it hard to believe that 150k people read these webpages each week. Show me the statisitcs and i am more than willing to admit im wrong.
My opinion is based on:
The BMC only has about 70k members. So that means another 80k people, each week view Ukclimbing.
Which i find hard to believe, since i dont think there are that many climbers in the UK and Ukclimbing would not appeal to persons overseas.
Is the 150k figure based on different computer hits? for example, in a busy week i may check Ukclimbing from going on ten different computers, sometimes even more.
That does not mean ten different people have look at Ukclimbing, it means i have looked ten times from different places. I am sure the same goes for many people, who check from work and at home.
I hope you can prove me wrong, which will then mean the climbing scene in Britain is healthier than i expected. Until you do, i will continue to believe how i do.
Can i re-emphasise that i was glad to have read both the article on Lucy Creamer and the one on the Roby brothers this morning, which in my opinion only shows the strengths of the UKclimbing news papges.