C&CC to Close Their Forum

I have just been sent a members satisfaction survey from CCC in which I reported I am not happy about the forum being removed. If enough members do the same the club management may change their minds!

Its interesting that without their forum most of us wouldn't know anything about that survey!! Regretfully I don't think they are for turning on the forum, we will see in a couple of days times?

David

I am surprised CMC perseveres with this  ClubTogether forum - which has seriously lost its way and gone downhill. It could well be drastically pruned if not closed as the other club  has decided. to do.

I tend to agree ET, nowhere near as many posting as there used to be. Take away the clutter of  Trivia and General chat and there is not much else left. Facebook groups like Caravan and Motorhome Chat attract more interesting activity. Motorhome Fun also does pretty well. I read both on most days and occasionally post on chat but I am not a member of Fun.

peedee

I read lots of forums but only post on a couple. ‘Fun’ I find to be anything but that and certainly not worth paying for. This forum always sparks my interest and the remedy to its perceived (by some) lack of interesting activity is to post and generate activity. It’s no good complaining if we don’t contribute. Some folk like the General Chat and make friends there. Good on them!

There is no doubt that these types of forum are not as well used as they used to be. That is probably because Social Media, like Facebook, is now the mainstay on online discussion.  The problem is that not everyone "does" Facebook and doing away with this forum would disenfranchise those people so I would encourage the Club to stick with Club Together as long as it can. There may come a point when it is not required but I think we are a long way from that yet. 

David

I suppose a lot depends on what you want from a forum. I do find Motorhome Fun useful and interesting. Motorhome Happiness is a Facebook group that I look at a bit but as is inevitable with Facebook groups it gets too confused to follow a particular thread for very long. Not much use if you want to search for information on a particular issue. I agree there seem to be fewer posts on CT  it maybe things will pick up a bit hen more people are out and about.  

It’s no good complaining if we don’t contribute.

4 posts in 2 days on Ro's post about the "What’s the Longest Trip You've Ever Taken?" says it all. I wonder what response it would have got on the Club's FB page? 22 post on "Your 2024 Caravan and Motorhome Plans" in two weeks and even then some of them were off topic. Not exactly too difficult for 380,000 members to respond to either of these!

Its down to the Club as to what value they are getting for the effort required to keep CT up. I think they could make better use of it themselve which might attract more to use it but their favoured route to the wider world seems to be FB

peedee

I joined Motorhome Fun in February 2020, paying my £15 subscription. Probably, it was not the best time to join since the COVID thing was at its worse during this first (and only) year's subscription and there was also the emergence of a socio-political movement more or less worldwide, the name of which I dare not even mention in this place, which proved to be somewhat controversial - to say the least.  

The upshot of this was the most extreme and poisonous series of threads that I have ever seen on any forum. These made the occasional arguments in this forum seem like polite conversation. The "ringmaster" was supposed to be policing this, and evidently there were rules about political comment, but not only did he do nothing, or at least only on the most extreme of cases, but, on occasion, he even joined in.   

Needless to say I did not renew my subscription; it is true that there were a lot of useful informative threads, but the threads covering general topics and events of the day were genuinely frightening. I have never been back and I can only hope that it has changed.

As far as this site goes, it is, in my view, the polar opposite and is way too benign. I am certain that is why it is so little used nowadays, certainly compared to when I first started posting at least a decade ago or more. I have made my view known to Rowena, but I shall soon become a non-member as I no longer have a leisure vehicle and so no longer feel I have the right to pontificate.   

Graydjames 

Much of what you say about Motorhome Fun I would concur with and one of the reasons I have never been a paid up member. There is much useful information on there which you seem to be able to access without being a member so I restrict myself to looking up the odd technical information which is often very useful. I think the problem with that forum is that if you pay for something there is probably an expectation that you should be able to say what you want and in a way that on other forums would not be allowed. That sort of free for all is often the downfall of most forums. 

Sorry to hear you have given up motorhoming. This forum does allow past members to continue to contribute if you wish.

David