Website Updates

I have updated the membership map once again with members’ names and avatar images displayed in a grid layout rather than a table. You can click on a card to get to the member’s detail page. Images are now crisp and not fuzzy as they were before and the layout is much easier to use on mobile devices as well. May I encourage everyone to go ahead and update your profiles? Is the list of varieties that you keep still up to date? Have you even entered your kept varieties at all? Please everyone, put yourselves on the map. And don’t forget to upload an avatar-image as well. I have got scary little monsters to stand in until you do!

Membership Database and Renewal Reminders

We have also now gone full circle with the website’s membership database and members were prompted only once this time around to renew. Members who have failed to renew were automatically taken off the map and have lost their access to it at the same time.

Subscribers of the NMC News (that’s all of you!) can now digest the current issue of the NMC News as well as back issues as far back as 2020 online (keep checking back for older issues). I have entered articles, show reports, Secretary’s Notes, President’s Notes and a slew of other categories into an online blog format that you can filter by year, category, author etc. I am considering this a beta version so please if you come across anything that doesn’t seem right, please reach out to me and let me know. You can also comment under each article, which makes the NMC News a little more interactive. Let’s see what we can make of it.

Please be advised that there are categories which are only available to members, so even if you post a link to an outside person, they will not be able to read the article. One such category is Secretary’s Notes. Other articles can be shared with the outside world if you want to but I would ask you not to for the time being. Remember this is a test and it is early doors still!

You will find the digital NMC News in the menu bar of the website. It is only visible to subscribers of the magazine. Even members who are not subscribers cannot see it. It goes without saying that you need to be logged in. Otherwise the website doesn’t know it’s you!

Last but not least, we are now GDPR compliant, which means the days of unencumbered browsing are over for good.  It’s the law… like every other website in the universe, we now pester you with a cookie acceptance prompt which, no doubt, you will neither read nor use to configure your cookie preferences.

On a different note, as most of you know I will be moving to Sheffield in August. My visa has not come through yet but I trust it will. So, hopefully, when the new season starts, I will be able to put myself back in the top ten. Hope to see you all at the shows.

Happy mousing!