So, when I was first told I’d have the opportunity to work with one of the longer running, dedicated gun blogs on the internet, and one that had a solidly legit following, I have to admit, I was pretty excited at the opportunity. But as I got looking at it more closely, it reminded me a little more of when I got my first car, a 1966 Mercury Comet Caliente. It was a cool car to be sure and had a ton of upside and potential for the $500 I paid my dad for it, but it was going to take a bit of work to get it where my friends might appreciate it as much as I did. My Dad had, after all, originally bought the used car for spare parts for his ’66 Comet, which he had bought brand new.
For just over a month now, we’ve looked under TTAG’s hood, test drove it on some different roads with all of you, crawled beneath the chassis. There are certainly a number of things we’ve seen that we’d like to change and tweak, polish and fine tune. But as anybody who has ever built anything for an audience knows, it would be foolish to do it without the most important item to consider…and that is getting input from our valued readers and site visitors.
Before we really do anything, we want to know: What do YOU want out of TTAG?
Why do you come here? What kind of articles do you like? What would you like to see more of? Would you like more video? Do you want more gun reviews? Do you want more news? Do you follow our social media? Would you follow our social media if it wasn’t so weak? (Yeah, we are working on that, but first things first.) What other sites do you really like and what is it you like about them? Maybe you want a newer site design at TTAG or maybe the old site design is comfortable and familiar and you don’t want it to change at all. Do you get the newsletter? Do you like the newsletter? Would you like a different newsletter? How important is the comments section and the community that has developed in the comments section to you?
A lot of you clearly love to come there and take jabs at each other and rip on everything under the sun. Take a moment to think about what it is you would like to see and let us know.
We look forward to hearing what you have to say; good or bad, it can all be helpful. Thank you to each of you for being a part of the TTAG community, together we hope to make it even better.