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I’m with ya.
What makes this even more discouraging is that this is basic stuff. If a ‘development team‘ with past forum experience is involved, that team would have surely understood the importance of time and date stamp. If they didn’t, I would question their experience. If they did, but a design decision was made by the admins to not include time and date stamp, it would be nice if the rational supporting that decision was shared with the users. Otherwise, users will continue to be frustrated – not good.
The Prevost DIY community desperately needs a viable forum for long form troubleshooting and modification threads, and data/knowledge archival. Facebook is terrible for that.
Wanderlodge Owners Group is the benchmark for what an active and healthy RV/Bus enthusiasts forum can be. They do it with no ads, no fees, and it runs vBulletin. The forum owner is immensely invested in the community and hyper active on the forum – reads every thread and has 50K+ post . The admins and moderators are ever present making sure the guard rails are observed. It is not uncommon to average 50+ p/day for months at a time on WOG.
It feels like PC has morphed into a sales advertising platform first, with a little bit of forum thrown in. IMO, it doesn’t feel like an optimized forum user experience was the primary goal.
I will continue to pop in every couple of weeks or monthly, but for now FB (good or bad) is where the Prevost activity is. And as I’ve said before, I loath FB.
Clint & Tammy Summers
2000 XL 45 Country Coach (rivets)
1977 FC31 Bluebird Wanderlodge (more rivets)
Vonore TN