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Thanks for all the feedback everyone!

We do already have some themed challenges here:

https://www.alphashooters.com/community/forums/challenges/

But these aren't weekly, I typically update them monthly or bi-monthly and also leave all of the old challenges open for members to post as and when they wish. We've also had themes for our monthly pro members competition in the past but these haven't been so successful with only a very small number of entries. The none themed competitions have encouraged more entries which is why we've stuck to this format for now.

So possibly something like the following would make sense:

1. Renaming the current Photo of the Week Challenge to: "Your Photo of the Week + 52 Week Challenge". This would hopefully encourage members to post their weekly photos who may not wish to commit to 52 weeks. It would also allow those to do want to continue or take part in the 52 week challenge to do so. I'd rather not have a theme here as I think it would deter too many from posting like I've seen in the other themed challenges that I've run.

2. I could be wrong, but I don't think our forum is large enough to have much success with a weekly themed challenge for the time being, and would probably to better suited to a monthly themed challenge. That said, I'm happy to trial a weekly themed challenge if people here would prefer this to a monthly challenge. I'll create a new thread where people can make suggestions for topics and also vote on weekly vs monthly.

3. I could add a Critique Forum where members can post images specifically to receive critique from the community. I think this would work better than a tag as then we'll have one forum where members can go to view critique that others have received and hopefully learn from this too. If we use a tag in all of the different forums then this critique will just end up getting lost.

Hope you've all had a good Easter!