The Forum

Sorry for those that are having frustrations. I can only say that I’m working diligently and daily to improve the Forum. I was on LiveChat with Support Techs for hours yesterday and the day before. They are still working on some issues and have upgraded support to a higher level. As far as the navigation, it’s exactly the same format as we had on the forum prior. I think the navigation issue that may be experienced is due to the copied forums/topics that were moved over from the TapaTalk Forum in order to preserve them. The manor in which they had to be saved (several replies combined into one), results in it being more difficult to do a “Search” on this forum. Hopefully, things will improve as issues are being worked on. All I can offer you now is excuses and explanations and appeal for patience although it’s difficult.  Thanks, B.W.

Believe me, I’m sharing in your frustrations, but hanging in there to keep us alive.

Facts:

• Forum activity “always” slows down this time of year (Holidays, Weather, etc.) as most are not traveling or using their rigs at all. It always picks up going into Spring.
• We have more members now than in the last 3 years.
• We lose members and gain new members.
• Some members sell their rigs, new members buy them.
• We get at least 3 new members weekly
• Most members we lose, I suspect, is they don’t realize their member expiration has occurred. Don’t check back unless they personally have an issue they need help with. Then they renew/reactivate their account.
• It appears that most Active Members don’t log in unless they’re having an issue that they need help with.
• There are a few that are Die-Hard Members that login daily and sometimes multiple times a day.
• The majority of New Members only join because they need help with an issue, once resolved, don’t return because they’re only concerned with their issues and no one else’s.

Phil,

I totally understand and I know everyone appreciates the Forums’ existence or they wouldn’t be members here. I assure you, I share and experience the same frustrations.  I’ve been working all morning on making adjustments on the backend behind the scenes trying to improve page loading time.  I too am extremely hopeful things will improve. I pretty much believe that we’ll have to put up with this format as I don’t think it would survive another move.

First I want to thank you BW! Efforts appreciated.

2nd I am logging in only a couple times a week due to the slowness. Trying to be proactive to try and help someone since so much graciousness has been shown to me.

The old saying goes “Patience is a virtue ” applies here.

Thank you to all who have helped in the past.

Partimewages wrote:

First I want to thank you BW! Efforts appreciated. 2nd I am logging in only a couple times a week due to the slowness. Trying to be proactive to try and help someone since so much graciousness has been shown to me. The old saying goes “Patience is a virtue ” applies here. Thank you to all who have helped in the past.

Thank you Greg

I would also like to give a big thank you to BW for all the hard work on the forum. Having bought our LS only 2 years ago as 2nd owner the data in the forum and knowledge base of the members has been a god-send to us. We so greatly appreciate the forum and BW.

I also have not logged in much lately due to slowness, and searching difficulties.

I would suggest cutting back on the JavaScript , graphics,and flash on all the pages. Make them very simple, less graphics , maybe even change the forum to plain text.  The more images and JavaScript code on a page will affect the servers processing. Maybe look at a php based forum software ?

Again thanks BW and we are so grateful for all you do.

All the best,

This is still a great forum for help and information.  Let’s all keep using it as much as possible while the change is completed.  Thanks BW!