Low Forum Activity?

SoCalDesertRider wrote:
I'm noticing since coming back to the forum recently that overall activity level on all of RV.net is very low. Even on Tow Vehicles, Around The Campfire and Fifth Wheels, all that used to be very busy forums, are now practically dead.

Use to be, a post could be made one day, and by the next day, if nobody replied to it, it would be buried 4 or 5 pages back on a busy forum like Tow Vehicles and Around the Campfire. Even Truck Campers it would be back on page 2 or 3 by the next day.

Have alot of folks left the forum in the past year or two? I still see alot of the same regulars I used to see, but notice some are also missing so far and I dont see a lot of newby posts as I used to see.

I think several things have happened:

1) A lot of us have been here for a long time... we've heard a lot of the questions over and over.... (thats normal

2) Another... the economy slowed things down, not as many new people are coming aboard... and we are losing some to illness or even death.

3) There is a topic in most of the forums that robbed the opportunity for members to see what others are doing in individual posts. When you post to "What did you you do to your camper today" and several other members post their "thing of the day"... then someone wants to coment on your post... it makes it hard to follow the single thought... impossible to search. So, I don't look... and therefore don't comment, or get the benifits of individual posts and the responses. In my opinion... the "What did you you do to your camper today" type threads are the worst thing to happen to the Truck camper forum...

4) Some of the guru's left, they just got burnt out with a few people pounding negative info on everything... especially PVSolar, and electronics. (I write directly to them for answers to my problems instead of posting)

5) I think there are less physical contacts too... we don't get to know and visit each other as much as we did a few years ago. mainly... we just don't get to know each other.

6) thank goodness for PM's...

These are my opinions...

Waynes and Brads thoughts will be different... thank goodness we have had them over the last 10 plus years... they keep things level.

Sleepy