How FIC listings get interpreted in Cohousing communities directory

I just got a call from someone interested in my community (Tumblerock) and was shocked when she said she'd read on cohousing.org that our community was not open to GLBT members. Sure enough, our "no answer" to that question on the FIC questionnaire had somehow turned into a "No" on cohousing.org. I changed our FIC answer to "Yes," but I'd request that someone take a look at how those answers get parsed for inclusion in the directory listing on cohousing.org. I think I saw the same problem with the question whether there is a core leadership group. Our "no answer" at FIC became "No" on cohousing.org. That's more accurate than "Yes" at this time, so I left it alone, but I'd be more comfortable if "no answer" on the FIC questionnaire yielded no information on the cohousing.org directory.

It's been a while since I checked on how our listing looked, so I'm not sure if this is a problem with the new website or not. Either way, though, I'd appreciate it if someone could look into it. I'd hate for people not to consider a community, including my own, because of misleading parsing of the FIC questionnaire.

Thanks so much for the work on the new site!

Deborah Mensch
Tumblerock forming coho, Colorado, US

Yikes! We'll check this out

Yikes! We'll check this out right away, thank you!

This should be fixed now,

This should be fixed now, testing to make sure.

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