Tom
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We're approaching the one year anniversary of the RV Forum at our current location. After more than 10 years at the old place, we moved the forum here and started over. Today we have over 3500 members, including many long-time members, and the number continues to increase daily.
What's kept us going?
A big thank you to all for making this the friendliest place on the web for anyone with an RV or an interest in RVing.
Hopefully, we've lived up to expectations and kept our promise to make the forum easy to use, with no commercial ads in forum messages. We've also tweaked the software to implement additional functionality requested by our members. We won't make a lot of promises for the future, but we do have some new/improved features planned.
Please remember that the forum needs your continued participation to keep going; If everyone merely reads and nobody asks questions or provides answers, it will soon become stale. So, please ask questions, help a fellow RVer with an answer, tell us about a repair you made, share recipes, crafts and hobbies, and post stories and photos from your trips. Most importantly, share in the friendship of the folks we collectively refer to as The Framily. If you get an opportunity, join us at one or more of the forum rallies, where you'll be sure to receive a warm welcome. (See the Calendar for rally dates and venues.)
For anyone interested, the following is a timeline of events that led to our move a year ago:
January, 2005
February, 2005
March, 2005
To help maintain the resource that the RV Forum has become, please consider donating a little something to help offset our costs. You'll find the Donate button in the toolbar above.
What's kept us going?
- The wonderful group of folks who come here and readily share their knowledge and experience, in addition to the folks who openly share their problems and ask questions.
- Our great team of volunteer staff who spend countless hours patiently answering questions; I really can't thank these folks enough for all they do.
- The folks who donated $$ to help offset the costs; Without their generosity I'd be digging into my pockets to pay the bills.
A big thank you to all for making this the friendliest place on the web for anyone with an RV or an interest in RVing.
Hopefully, we've lived up to expectations and kept our promise to make the forum easy to use, with no commercial ads in forum messages. We've also tweaked the software to implement additional functionality requested by our members. We won't make a lot of promises for the future, but we do have some new/improved features planned.
Please remember that the forum needs your continued participation to keep going; If everyone merely reads and nobody asks questions or provides answers, it will soon become stale. So, please ask questions, help a fellow RVer with an answer, tell us about a repair you made, share recipes, crafts and hobbies, and post stories and photos from your trips. Most importantly, share in the friendship of the folks we collectively refer to as The Framily. If you get an opportunity, join us at one or more of the forum rallies, where you'll be sure to receive a warm welcome. (See the Calendar for rally dates and venues.)
For anyone interested, the following is a timeline of events that led to our move a year ago:
January, 2005
- Attendees at the Quartzsite rally/potluck voted to move the forum from the old (Compuserve) location because it had become unusable for many and was burdened with numerous commercial ads and repeated login difficulties.
- We moved our web site to a new host and installed the forum software.
February, 2005
- The forum staff were getting acquainted with the software and giving it a workout.
- A limited number of folks were invited to join us.
March, 2005
- We opened the doors.
- Many familiar faces started showing up, including folks who'd previously given up and had left the old venue.
To help maintain the resource that the RV Forum has become, please consider donating a little something to help offset our costs. You'll find the Donate button in the toolbar above.