After years of mucking I’m about to launch a not for profit in the UK using S2member and I’d love some feedback on the site. I consider the site at the late beta stage, as I’m sure there are some spellign mistakes and other little things that need fixing but its close enough to completion to ask for feedback.
https://www.sciencefictionbookclub.org
If there is anything actually serious pls DM me.
Ok, have at it.
Some observations
Good luck!
MB
yes, that’s a good point, I’ll look into that. thanx
Great job, Gerard!
I like the design a lot, and didn’t notice something wrong yet.
If the plugin you’re using for the pop up allows for it, set a 30 second delay (maybe a bit more) instead of showing it right when someone loads your page. It feels a bit less imposing in my personal opinion and might reduce your (potential) bouncing rate and improve your page’s speed score.
Can you also offer other currencies (I’d suggest dollars and euros)? Stripe might allow you to withdraw those unchanged. I am able to accept the three currencies and cash them out as they are (Stripe now charges a fee to transfer out USD on non American or Canadian accounts, I think it’s 2% but then you can adjust your pricing accordingly from time to time).
If you think the price list will become too long you could have a small button somewhere taking the user to a page for USD and another for EUR, maybe use a flag or an icon for each alternative currency.
I’d consider only having one link “Log In” at the top menu, on the far right. Can you change the static image you used on the right for people that could join so it’s an animation, instead (don’t do it everywhere or you lose the benefit)? It feels quite suitable with the theme and would bring viewers’ eyes to it (I hope you only show it to people that aren’t logged in, look into s2member conditionals, I use them all the time for things like this).
Just ideas, of course. I believe you did a pretty good job thus far.
all good points worth considering, thanks.
the currency is the one that’s most interesting to me. I’ll have to see how to I could implement it without needing lots of different pages cluttering up user flow. possibly putting the [s2Member-Pro-Stripe-Form] code inside a do_shortcut and some code to replace GB with EUR or GBP if a get variable is detected, possibly for country as well… hmmm interesting.
for testing purposes only but its been fun to try out getting a multi currency join page working in as low-tech a way as possible.
Nice. Please don’t scroll the page, though. Or use something considerably higher like “Membership Options” header to scroll towards to. It will be much neater. Of course, in my humble opinion and I use a Desktop PC.
Glad you started accepting more popular currencies. That will hopefully make you get more subscribers. 
I wouldn’t put additional currencies as long as the stripe form needs to reload when clicking something. this is really so annoying with S2 , it really should be fixed that changing amount or options doesn’t reload the page/frame. With information being lost that was entered in other fields. That’s why I use PayPal instead of Stripe, can have a nice drop down list and enter data that doesn’t get lost from reload (yeah payment itself is on PayPal website then).
Oh yeah and without proform can preselect the country for the address based on IP. Still don’t know how that’s possible with proform.
I have multiple currencies on the same list for Stripe. It works fine.
I do NOT have that via PayPal since I don’t pay for payflow etc.
But I have all currencies together.
I used to have a separate page per currency, it worked fine too.
Yes, the data gets reloaded but that is also applicable when the user changes from default monthly to yearly etc. 
Yeah and each reload multiplies checkout problems. I created my own form for PayPal that gathers like a button for standard PayPal before sending the customer to PayPal with no reload. Data is saved in custom field then can be expanded later for analysis. This reload is absolutely horrible.
Now you’re making me wonder if I am not getting a single new subscription from a new user, at all, since around Christmas (only a couple ex subscribers returned ). 
Same with comments on my site. People sometimes email me saying they can’t post a comment.
I have dummy accounts I use for testing. They work. I test my buttons and forms, they work too.
Our Stripe forms don’t work with VPN, at least not the card field. Stripe seems unaware of it, they wanted me to record what exactly happens. I was overwhelmed with “life” and didn’t get back to them (yet).
PayPal buttons sometimes glitch and PayPal gives the dreadful “something went wrong on our end, try again later”. I tried to replicate the error but I can’t even with a VPN. I use plain PayPal Buttons.
Tried fiddling around encryption without success.
I’ll likely have to review my security policies on NGinx (CSP). Again. 
Thanks for making me aware of one more issue I had no idea of. Or, at least, make me add looking into it to my “to do” list.
Well if you could find out a way to change the pro forms to change things without reload that would be awesome. But yeah I guess you don’t know either and likely would be a huge rework
I surely don’t. Sorry.
I do what I can with what I have. I hacked a couple of minor things in a very inelegant way, as you know, but I didn’t go further.
I didn’t learn php and I didn’t learn Dutch either, even though in live in NL for 8 years LOL.
I am a total failure, please keep that in mind. I still try a couple of things here and there, but it’s useful for you to know I don’t have much energy or motivation to make me see through the CFS fog…