[Arno]

28 January 2014 at 16:16:11 #803659

Dear MySwissAlps visitor,

We have launched a new version of our website today. If you have an account with us, you should receive an email with your new password. An overview of some of the new features of the website can be found below.

New features:

• There’s more travel information. Especially the section about train traveling and rail pass information has been extended and improved;
• There’s more information about how to prepare for a trip to Switzerland;
• The new website provides an overview of towns and regions;
• In addition to hiking trails, there’s also detailed attraction information;
• You’ll find many suggestions for hotels in all price ranges;
• The forum has been extended with a Trip Reports section. Feel free to post your trip report there! You can win a gift card by doing so.
• You can still receive emails with new forum activity, but the frequency range has been changed a bit: the lowest frequency is once a week, the highest is 3 times a day. Your account allows you to change this setting;
• The website can be used on any device: computer, laptop, tablet, smartphone or TV, it should all work.

Some features did not make it to the new website:

• Ecards are no longer available;
• For technical reasons, private messaging in the forum is no longer possible. This function wasn’t used very often, but we see how it can be convenient sometimes. We aim to bring it back when possible.

We’ll keep on working on MySwissAlps. If you have any suggestions or complaints, feel free to post them here or contact us in another way.

Enjoy the new website!

Arno & Annika

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[Removed user]

29 January 2014 at 12:39:34 #839473

Hi Arno, busying myself exploring new website – may take a little time as it seems at first glance quite different – sure I will soon get used to it! However I am disappointed to see e-cards are no longer available – I only really discovered them last year and had great fun sending reports back to family and friends as we were in Switzerland for a whole month and it was a cost-effective way of keeping in touch. We will be in Switzerland for a month again this summer and I was looking forward to using them again as my friends and family who received them were so pleased to get them. Shame they won’t be able to. Best of luck with new website. Maggie

[Olga]

29 January 2014 at 16:18:09 #839474

Hello Arno and Annika,

What a great new website you built! I’m enjoying it very much and I will be exploring and searching, just for fun, as much as I can.

Great job!!

Olga

[Arno]

29 January 2014 at 16:52:33 #839475

Hi Maggie,

Yes, I was sorry to see the e-cards go as well. Unfortunately it was one of those things that was quite difficult to keep. I’m sure you will get good stuff in return for it though. A lot of information and pictures have been added and we’ll keep doing so. If you have further questions just let us know!

[Arno]

29 January 2014 at 16:53:32 #839476

Thanks Olga, glad to hear that you like what we did!

[Wandermann]

29 January 2014 at 17:46:35 #839477

Hi Arno and Annika,

Congratulations with this new version of your website. As far as I can see this version has much logic in it.
It seems visitors are invited to find answers to all their possible questions.
Oh, and I like all the photo’s! What a beautiful invitation to visit Switserland.

I’ll be back many times!

Wandermann

[Arno]

29 January 2014 at 18:13:15 #839478

Hi Wandermann,

Thank you! Looking forward to seeing you back here!

[jackdebear]

8 February 2014 at 14:24:16 #839479

I go to Switzerland to hike. I use this site to get information to that purpose. In the old site lay out the forum section on hiking was easy to find. The new site is slick but if there is still a dedicated hiking forum I can’t find it. All lumped under miscellaneous? Unless I’m missing something this site has just lost some of it’s utility.

[Arno]

8 February 2014 at 14:44:05 #839480

Hi Jack,

Hiking is indeed part of the miscellaneous forum now. This has been analyzed carefully before we made that choice, but I appreciate your feedback a lot. Rest assured that we will monitor the site closely and more changes will be made going forward. If separate forums for any topic seem to be useful in the future we’ll certainly create them. Don’t hesitate to share more thoughts if there are any!

Our focus on hiking is still there. You may be interested to know that we are going to add more hiking routes in the hiking section.