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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.
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General Discussion / What made you Smile - 2025
« Last post by lloydus67 on Yesterday at 11:41:35 AM »
The advert said full 5 page report with up to 75 photos

I definitely got a 5 page report, 5 pages of titles with little or no content/ comments included with those titles.
6 photos, 3 internal and 3 external
I certainly wouldn’t recommend them.
I did also get the report that told me it hadn’t been written off or have any finance outstanding on it.


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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.
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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
$190 a year works out to $15.84 per month or $3.66 per week.
I think that few new members would join if it cost them more than Netflix a month.
Even though it’s the same money, $3.66 per week is pretty manageable, as you go up to $15.84 per month or $190 per year the cost gets more difficult for people to justify. Everyone knows the cost of just living in the current economy.
As others have said, advertising may be the way forward, or at least a combination of advertising and a small subscription fee.
Just my thoughts
Lloyd


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Quote from: GeoffA
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
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A rock and a hard place!  :-\

Foo
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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.
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despite my years here... I get the feeling that I'm still relatively *new*.

I don't get to participate here as much as I once did. Like everyone work and the like suck my time. But also because I'm living my best life out here in the remote NT.

I think a small monthly automatic direct debit (Patreon style?) would be the go. For muppets like me... with zero control over week to week cash flow... a year subscription is difficult. But the same amount, split into a monthly (or weekly/fortnightly) would be easy as.

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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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I think Fizz hit on something - think we'd be flat out having 30 members on here regularly, I thought by lunchtime today there'd be outrage and 20-30 posts on this, but see if that changes by the end of the week.. that may help Brett decide.

Backing this up further, after ~24 hours, the thread now shows as having 865 views with 16 replies, & the vote is currently standing at 14:3. Geoff has 2 replies, so only 15 people have actually commented, which means that 2 voters didn't say anything. Views will be slightly different, as this is the ~4th time I've opened it, but still means that ~800 people apparently don't care enough to either vote or comment :'(

In regards to
The current stats show 1540 Guests, 4 Users.
are those 865 viewers actually real members though ???

I mentioned figures like Geoff's a while back & people thought the "guests" would most likely be bots scanning for something or other ???

Would you need to be logged in, i.e. an actual member, to view a thread though ???
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