Hello Laura and thank you for introducing yourself and for your efforts. I've been an APC member since '01. (changed jobs a few times in between and I closed the old accounts and created a new one).

So far I'm liking what I'm seeing. You communicating with us is important in itself. Don't let this forum turn into a flightinfo.whatever nonsense! They allowed it to happen and now their forum is 90% junk.

My suggestion are:

1) Reach out to the original founders. They knew what we wanted and they made it happen. It was a UPS and a United pilot who started this forum (if my memory serves me right?). The ups guy (JS) is still here and I believe his user name is freightdog. So if in doubt use their expertise.

2) Remember that almost all pilots use smart tablets nowadays for daily work. Most of us carry iPads, Windows based Surface devices, etc. and many of us avoid bringing laptops on the road because of the never ending love we keep getting from TSA agents.
So test all your new features on smart devices before you go live. Also, many of us do not want "mobile" versions of desktop sites. We can zoom things in if needed and often the mobile sites are simply limited versions of desktop sites. At the very least I'd like an opt-out option of mobile view.

3) Listen to us when we flag someone as a "troll" or an imposter. We're pretty good at telling if someone who claims to be working for airline xyz spews out nonsense. Also, this is an airlinePILOTcentral and while I don't mind inputs from mechanics, flight attendants, ATC controllers and so on they should identify themselves as such. All too often you see lengthy comments that are somewhat contradictory only to find out that the person commenting isn't actually a pilot for that specific airline but his/her wife or husband or maybe a flight attendant or someone who just felt the need to share his or her wisdom even though this person is not a pilot.
If this person said something like "from a flight attendant's perspective I belief that ..." I'd be totally ok with the comment but otherwise I get irritated because I don't frequent FA, mechanics and dispatchers message boards since I'm not informed enough about their issues.

4) PMs should be treated as such. A private message implies its private. If someone posts a private message he or she received from another member this person should be suspended. Unless the messages are threatening in nature and if so the moderators should be dealing with it.

5) Keep the airlinepilotcentral airline data up-to-date!
Can't emphasize this enough. This used to be the site to go to for interview gouges, latest details and so on. Now sometimes it takes weeks for things to update once people submit revisions. Make APC relevant again.

You're doing a good job. Good luck to you!