Thank you! That's the first thing I've got to say to the 4,213 Guardian Weekly readers who filled in our recent survey - an astonishing one in 10 of our subscribers did so, a very high figure. And we do very much appreciate hearing your views.
Broadly, it seems you are satisfied with the paper, reflecting the fact that 60% of the respondents have read it for 10 years or more.
We have, however, already made a couple of small changes in response to your comments. Traditionally the Weekly has given all monetary values in US dollars, except in UK stories, where we used pounds.
Many readers, however, asked "why not euros?" and reflecting changing global realities, we've decided that's a fair question. So from last week's eurozone-country stories onwards, we will use euros (with a translation into US dollars on first mention, since that's still a benchmark against which many will calculate their local values).
Also, there were many expressions of puzzlement over the editorial cartoon and its meaning. To help with that we're now pointing to the blog post where the particular cartoon is discussed, and also, where possible, provide a cross-reference between the relevant story and the cartoon. I hope that's helpful.
There's clearly some confusion about dates also. For the record, what we do, with the paper dated on Friday, is to refer to all days of that week simply by their name, so "on Monday" something happened, while from the previous week that will be "last Friday". Some readers are asking for dates to be added, but that's going to read rather clunkily; that's something we'll keep thinking about.
Many asked about Nancy Banks-Smith's long-running television column; she isn't currently writing on television, but if she returns to it, we'll certainly pick up her work again.
On broader issues, some readers asked us to be more cheerful, to have fewer gloomier stories. This is an issue that editorially concerns us every week - but we aim to bring you the most significant and important news from around the globe, so to some degree this is outside our control. We certainly hope that the news gets more cheerful, for all of our sakes!
And when asked what you'd like more of, international news is the overwhelming winner; most people say they'd like more news from their own region.
A number of readers asked for maps with stories, and quite a few asked for a larger font size. But others asked for longer stories, and I fear that they'd be very disappointed if we followed the first two requests, which would reduce the number of words in the Weekly.
Our coverage of and approach to Christianity drew quite a few comments also: again, they were very finely balanced between those who thought we were anti-Christian and those who thought we were too pro-Christian.
Some old issues reared their heads: staples is one issue that just don't go away. Half of the readers who referred to them loved them, half hated them - this is one issue on which we really can't win.
Notes & Queries is possibly the most controversial section; some people love it, some hate it: one person's much-loved humour for others is "silliness".
Also sport is clearly divisive: the readers asking for more are almost exactly balanced with those asking for none - we'll be leaving the coverage where it is, which reflects the column inches sport has now had for some time.
Two final notes: respondents were asked to choose among four charities for the destination of a donation of £1,000. There was a strong vote (54%) for Médecins Sans Frontières.
I've responded here to the editorial issues; on the issues of distribution and your subscription service, we continue to work to make these as good as they can possibly be.
