I'm sure it seems to most people that this forum isn't that popular because so few people participate on it. However, we have just managed to apply Google stats to the forum for the firsat time and the results are as I've expected them to be, which is OUTSTANDING.
Despite the lack of daily posts, the stats indicate that MANY MORE people visit and READ the site and hopefully LEARN from it.
I know that my involvement on the forum has driven away a few people, who thought they knew better than I did and didn't like the FACT made public, so I've often 'felt' that despite the lack of daily posts, the forum was VERY POPULAR, because I'm often told by new or would be customers, how often they visit it and how long they spend on it.
Until today Ant has been of the belief that my long and detailled posts (here, on Facebook, our Website, etc.) are a waste of time, as his 'narrow' view has been based on the AVERAGE stat figures from our website, relating to such pages. However, since getting the Google stat facility on the forum and after suggesting that he IGNORES the average figures and looks at just those where people don't 'bounce off', he's now realised that my posts are NOT a waste of time, as a substantial number of people spend in the region of ONE to THREE HOURS reading through the forum EVERY DAY.
The strange thing is that MANY MORE (twenty plus times as many), read the forum than visit our website, which suggests to me one of two things;
1) Either there are a LOT of people using US kits who are learning how to make the best of them
OR
2) There are a lot of people using US kits who are considering the switch but not just yet
Hopefully the 2nd explanation is the one, as trying to apply my UNIQUE knowledge to GARBAGE US kits, is like trying to polish a TURD!!!!