I joined this forum 17 years ago when it had a large interactive member group of contributors.
There was a lot of discussion on just about every camping topic one could think of with the electrical section being a most interesting read.
It was a must go to place every night and one could spend a lot of time learning and exchanging ideas.
But now most of the posts are from the same small group of members and most of the time off topic (little on campers, camping etc).
I just look at the post topics and if nothing grabs me I'm in and out in less than a minute.
The forum IMO is now just a chat room for a select few.
The forum seems to have run its race as have most of the other forums I once subscribed to have.
I was an active member and enjoyed this forum in the early years but now as you may have gathered it has lost its charm for me.
Sorry if this seems negative feedback but it is simply my opinion.

With the 16 that have said they are willing to contribute - its around 190/yr each

$15.83 a month is quite fine by me.

But locking the place down with the only way to see anything is to become a financial member will stop most new members from joining. I don't know if it's possible... but unpaid members get to make two posts a month and to view four threads (for example)

Same system that the SMH and other papers use. A certain... % is free... but after that if you like what you see... you pay.

The current stats show 1540 Guests, 4 Users.
Just saying....

Most of those would be bots... Search engines etc.

Theres more chance of walking on the sun in thongs and speedos than 1500 physical individuals being logged on in a month. Would be interesting to see how many individual members are logging in regularly

It would also be good to know in the poll what sort of $ we were talking about chipping in... $20/mth is a lot to some and center console change to others.
With the 16 that have said they are willing to contribute - its around 190/yr each

My camping days are pretty much over due to the wife’s health situation but we still travel when we can so I live thru this site vicariously for my camping fix. I visit Myswag every day, have contributed to the server fees in the past and would be happy to continue to do so. An annual fee would require building member numbers year on year.
I appreciate that advertising has never been a part of the forum, maybe it’s time to allow major sponsors to advertise on the forum with every guest seeing their ads, members having the option to opt out of advertising if they wish.

I’m more than happy to contribute a couple of dollars a month to help keep the forum going, particularly if it could be done as a subscription through Apple Pay or something similar. However 10’s of dollars per month would probably make it prohibitive.

After just logging in through the actual website, rather than my normal Tapatalk, I don’t see any option to vote only results?

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